Recent content by Buddy Moran

Haterade, thanks for sharing your experience. Mine seemed exactly like yours, although about 4 minutes shorter (11 minutes flying time). What was your new drone (Greggs drone? I don't get it)? How was the P3 after the repair? I'm worried after a repair the experience will just recur.

Super Dave, I never recovered the prop. The aircraft was recovered from a creek. After I recovered that and the detached camera, I didn't bother looking for the prop. But from the map trace of the route, it probably fell off about 20 meters away. (It suddenly veered to its right and moved in a...

The threads were fine. I can easily spin the props into the threads prior to tightening them, and spin them off after untightning. And I'm very sure they were tightened well. I wouldn't have thought the AC would have reached over 2 miles, or 11 minutes in the air otherwise (until I read...

@hwortman, @sar104, @Jthomp, LOL! sar104 is right. It's not a bird. It's the edge of my iPad cover. This video was from my iPhone camera recording my laptop running the recovered video on VLC. (The video was truncated because the camera didn't shut down properly. I could only recover the video...

Me, too. Thanks for your, and everyone else's, contributions to this post.

I had to send my P3P to the dealer for their inspection prior to any action on the warranty. It's quite likely they will then send it to DJI.

Great to know. Thanks for sharing!

Hi @Rob65. This was flown in Thailand, too. But at 6:00am, and about 28C. I don't notice any significant warmth in the props after flying here. In fact, the props seem tighter and require more effort to remove after flying 10-20 minutes. But thanks for the suggestion. I will consciously tighten...

Great test, @syotr! Thank you very much for sharing this.

@jwmcgrath and @sar104, thank you very much for your analyses and hypotheses. They both sound like possible causes for the AC to suddenly drop. Do you think there is enough data to ask for a replacement, since it's still within the warranty period? There's no proof of a bird strike. From your...

sar104, Yes, it was the front right. I've also studied at videos of props flying off the past couple of days. I notice those that just drop down, like mine did, didn't stay up for more than a minute. Those that managed to stay up longer would start to wobble or spin around, and then spin while...

That sounds likely, SAR104. But what would cause that to suddenly happen after flying smoothly for about 11 minutes? Would't you expect to see some destabilization in the video just before a prop flies off?

JWM, these are three frames when the AC starts descending. I can't see any hint of something coming into contact with the it.

No. Unfortunately, it had fallen into a creek. When retrieved, one prop was missing. I can swear I tightened them properly. I have also been reviewing the video several times for any clue of instability that might result from a loose prop. I couldn't find any. If the crash was a result of the...

Has this ever happened to you? Is there any reason DJI wouldn't honor the warranty?* The AC was flying smoothly using the AutoPilot Waypoint mode of a 9 hole mission. The AC suddenly fell from the sky at the halfway point of the mission with 60% of battery life left, at about the 11th minute...