It's been proven, human nature, whatever the product, people don't read manuals I'm afraid.
Help! Crash landing
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Phaedrus
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I have a friend who says we could hide $1,000 bills in manuals and most guys would never find them.
Well problem with that is the horse has already bolted, most are posting after the crash and joining forum, there's little to do about that, if your already on the forum then that's different.
PatR
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That falls under “due diligence”. If we want to become involved in something it’s up to us to learn as much as we can about it before jumping in with our wallets. As the variety of search engines and the tremendous amount of information easily accessible on the internet makes research efforts easy to accomplish there’s just no reason not to do it. Yet they do not.
With pretty much any multirotor we can go online to read about performance, features, price, ops manuals, and availability. We can read user reports both good and bad, identify public forums that are dedicated to the product to review common issues. We can learn about batteries and their requirements. But so many don’t and elect to initiate research only after an expensive toy is wrecked after only a couple uses.
We read about far too many crashes that didn’t need to happen. The causes are far too often ones that have been repeated over and over, causes well described and researched with prevention methods and warnings widely disseminated for anyone interested enough to review them...before they fly for the first time.
With pretty much any multirotor we can go online to read about performance, features, price, ops manuals, and availability. We can read user reports both good and bad, identify public forums that are dedicated to the product to review common issues. We can learn about batteries and their requirements. But so many don’t and elect to initiate research only after an expensive toy is wrecked after only a couple uses.
We read about far too many crashes that didn’t need to happen. The causes are far too often ones that have been repeated over and over, causes well described and researched with prevention methods and warnings widely disseminated for anyone interested enough to review them...before they fly for the first time.
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You're forgetting the impulse buy scenario, Pat, I got into RC several years back because of a post on an air gun forum. That said, I did a lot of research before buying, then even more once I had bird in hand and was actually able to understand some of what I'd read. Sometimes you need to screw something up before you even know what questions to ask. Perfect example, my (so far) only crash with my TH was a TB issue. No experience with it before hand, so it wasn't until after I'd had the issue that I looked for a solution. Fortunately, the only damage was a busted prop, and I already had spares. But I do tend to agree with you, considering how easy it is to find information in the Internet age, it's pretty foolish to not do so, especially if you're going to drop a fairly serious amount of coin. Later.
Dave
PatR
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Manufactures of any kind of product pander to impulse buyers. All those items in markets and general stores located on “end caps” or bordering the check out line are there to entice impulse buyers.
We’re all guilty of acting on impulse at one time or another, and often many times. What’s important is what we learn and how we modify our behavior after acting on impulse. There’s most always an additional price paid afterwards.
We’re all guilty of acting on impulse at one time or another, and often many times. What’s important is what we learn and how we modify our behavior after acting on impulse. There’s most always an additional price paid afterwards.
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