One thing to learn from this: Koenigsegg thinks 35-ounce steaks are normal things to buy at the supermarket.

Hey, my last car was 2810 lbs (no driver) and made just about 800 RWHP (around 1000 bhp). Not Koenigsegg fast, but not bad for a street car. A friend and I are finishing one with 1400 bhp and a 3000 lbs weight. That's right at 1:1 (in kg). Doesn't have the aero for much over 200 mph before risking becoming a lovely…

Dry weight, curb weight, gross weight, mass are all entirely different things

I love how even the “slow” Koenigsegg model still has a power to weight of 0.84:1.

Very interesting, especially the 3000hp/3000kg car vs 500hp/500kg car. It’s something that I’ve always thought about but there are just so many variables. If the cars are identical, only difference being mass, somehow I still believe the heavier car will accelerate faster. To have enough grip to put down that power…

Agreed. Realistically they should practice and understand the dynamics of flight with a cheap dumb toy quadcopter first. That’s what I did and now I’m building them from scratch. I have a far better appreciation for the technology and I’m a more responsible pilot for not wanting to crash something I put personal time…

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It’s great and refreshing to see a company being up front and honest, totally transparent about their product, as Koenigsegg is doing here. It shows faith and confidence in their product.

Huh... that’s weird. Mine starts sounding off alarms once I get to a certain battery level. It knows how how much flight time is left and warns you that you should start heading back. It’s pretty hard to miss, but perhaps your friend had a hardware problem or maybe it’s an older version that didn’t have all the new…

This may highlight why some manufacturers horsepower figures seem greater than other of the same value (i.e. Porsche having the most powerful 385 horses etcetera) due to the weight discrepancies from the given figures.

They can take off, fly via waypoints and land themselves. You can easily map out a course before takeoff if you want. Additionally, as long as it’s outdoors, the GPS lock will keep it steady in one spot as long as the controls are neutral. DJI has done a fantastic job making something previously very intimidating and…

If you can find a way to build an uncrashable rotary wing aircraft you will probably be made rich beyond your wildest dreams.

The frustration of repeated and costly crashes is the only thing that keeps too many amateurs from jumping into this hobby and messing it up for the rest of us (as they have already started to do, given all the stories of people flying where they shouldn’t).

If you are crashing a quadcopter you have no business touching anything RC lol... Mess around with collective pitch Helis for the first time and get back to me ;)

Nonsense, they’ll be happy to fix your aircraft in 2-4 months while your service contract expires!

One thing I learned when I bought insurance like this for my first computer, you can ship it to them but they may not be in a hurry to ship it back.

This is mostly going to backfire because DJI’s customer support is almost as bad as Valves

This is going to backfire on DJI if people buy into it at all... say you spend $800-1200 on a Phantom when it’s new... you buy a full year of “insurance” and you’re out another $400. After a year, DJI has their next generation Phantom on the market for the same price as the previous one (or less) and all their buyers…

As a new DJI owner, this is a great idea. I even asked about an insurance policy before I bought mine.