all were tested in HEAVY winds .. GPS-S held !!! If people are reporting problems, it is my quess they have built their crafts improperly, tuned them wrong and possibly crashed without proper repairs, probably all the above. If the machines are flight tested and properly tuned they do their job very well. If you don't build them correctly, you can expect incorrect flight, SAME with NE Quad or helicopter.
I think I made my statements very clear as to what first-hand experience I have and what information I gave which was based on videos posted in other threads, and what was based simply on reports from other users. I think you'll find that this is a level of honesty and diligence beyond your typical forum post.
Anyone looking to buy expensive equipment will want to do some research to make sure they're buying something that works. If it wasn't clear, I was simply summarizing my understanding of the options in question, and I was diligent enough to report where my information comes from. I hope that anyone looking to choose between the multi-rotor platforms will go to the forums and threads that I mention as well as looking around on YouTube and other places where such things are to be found to see for themselves the results so far that I summarized, and not just take my word for it.
One thing I should have mentioned that I didn't, is that people tend to go to forums to ask for help improving their setup more than to report success results. It is certainly possible that there are loads of XAir machines out there with excellent position hold but those folks aren't coming forward on the forums to show off their good results.
By the same token, if you have several XAircraft machines built that do hold position well in winds, please take some videos and post them. This will make a huge difference in offsetting the negative results and build confidence that XAir stuff does work as advertised.
I don't own the GPS/compass modules because I haven't seen any evidence that they work well enough yet. That's my opinion based on what I've seen. Certainly I do take into effect the possibility that many of the folks on the forums may have made mistakes putting theirs together, and I'm certainly willing to discount the negative reviews as a result of inadequate builds, but for me to make a decision to spend almost $300 on a GPS/compass I need to see some success results, too.
I can understand your frustration as a dealer of XAircraft when people who haven't got any first-hand experience report negative results, but rather than telling everyone to disregard everything except first-hand experience -- especially when first-hand experience showing positive results is hard to find-- isn't it better to provide several demonstrations of your own to show positive results?
I also feel that my advice to look for videos and reports in the places where people post them (i.e. RCG) is sound advice. You have a point in that people should disregard completely unfounded opinions and speculation, but (a) describing what I've seen in videos isn't speculation, it's a summary of what I've seen, and (b) I think rather than asking people to disregard everything that isn't first-hand experience, why not offer some sound advice of your own as to where people considering different products should look to help them decide that XAir is the way to go?
Thanks for asking