Hi gang,
I thought it might be helpful to post this. We were flying Oregon dunes filming a model on motorcycle. My pilot had the cycle turn abruptly and in staying away from the rider we ditched it into the dunes. We were clipping along pretty good when it hit some pretty hard sand. When we arrived at the bird the camera was of coarse what took the hit. We busted the new X5R right at the lens arm, snapped the aluminum right in half. We boxed her up shipped her off to DJI and 2 weeks later we got her back for $387. Sent her up a few minutes ago and everything is back and running smooth. The camera kept recording even after the crash, pretty solid. Fortunately it was the very last stop on a 5 day road trip filming, only got 15 minutes of the bikers so we will be heading back down later this summer.
J
I thought it might be helpful to post this. We were flying Oregon dunes filming a model on motorcycle. My pilot had the cycle turn abruptly and in staying away from the rider we ditched it into the dunes. We were clipping along pretty good when it hit some pretty hard sand. When we arrived at the bird the camera was of coarse what took the hit. We busted the new X5R right at the lens arm, snapped the aluminum right in half. We boxed her up shipped her off to DJI and 2 weeks later we got her back for $387. Sent her up a few minutes ago and everything is back and running smooth. The camera kept recording even after the crash, pretty solid. Fortunately it was the very last stop on a 5 day road trip filming, only got 15 minutes of the bikers so we will be heading back down later this summer.
J
I crashed my X5R the other day & was sick 
I was shooting tractor pulls .... well it changed over to a truck pull & the sled they used was too light & went too far. When I thought my Inspire was stopped, I looked up & it was backing into a nice fluffy ash tree .... saw twinkles & shredding leaves at about 30' up. They had to get a bucket truck from the city to pull it out of the tree 
So happy it came out ok 
