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Hi maxwelltub, One way of looking at it, sure. On the other hand, if for some technical reason you cannot override it, then the design is flawed (which sadly often is the case...) and then I would reason it's not the pilot's error. However, in both situations the root cause of the incident...

Hi, I'm Showflyer, part of a small crash-affine research team working with multicopters. Our goal is to make our hobby/profession safer, using all the fancy stuff that engineering offers these days. We are using two custom builds (hexacopter and quadcopter), both around 3kg and running with a...

Hi all, Since there is no statistics on "why we crash", I would like to collect some data here and identify the most common cause for having a bad day. Let us know what have been causes for your crashes. Doesn't matter if it was fatal or just a hard landing. Thanks!