First of all, I've been fairly aggravated over the past few months with the Solo launch as have many others. It's difficult not to be. But I decided to stick with 3DR even with their reliability problems which are very frustrating. I have two Solo's. Solo 1 was just returned from the shop in San Diego after only a week and a half. Very surprising. I got an email from 3DR stating it was on it's way and the repair cost was
$999.95 but the charge to me was ZERO! It came to my office the next day exactly the way I shipped it to them, but with a new set of blades. The outer shell was the same. Nothing in writing telling me what they did for the $$$$$. I downloaded the new update, and started it up inside first. No problems. Got GPS lock indoors. Interestingly, the antennas on the controller were torqued down so hard I could not remove them by hand. Like they didn't want me to use another antenna. In any case Solo flew flawlessly in a fairly good wind. Held very steady in a hoover and landed within inches of it's take off point. It's acquired GPS more quickly than before as well. Someone is going to make a movie of this event. It's to interesting to pass up. Now if I only had a gimbal. I did, after all order in April. In the mean time i'm getting valuable flight experience with Solo and learning a ton on this forum. Thanks again.
$999.95 but the charge to me was ZERO! It came to my office the next day exactly the way I shipped it to them, but with a new set of blades. The outer shell was the same. Nothing in writing telling me what they did for the $$$$$. I downloaded the new update, and started it up inside first. No problems. Got GPS lock indoors. Interestingly, the antennas on the controller were torqued down so hard I could not remove them by hand. Like they didn't want me to use another antenna. In any case Solo flew flawlessly in a fairly good wind. Held very steady in a hoover and landed within inches of it's take off point. It's acquired GPS more quickly than before as well. Someone is going to make a movie of this event. It's to interesting to pass up. Now if I only had a gimbal. I did, after all order in April. In the mean time i'm getting valuable flight experience with Solo and learning a ton on this forum. Thanks again.