Recent content by Fantasmagorico

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    Phantom 4 or Phantom 3 Pro

    P3P and P4 are just about equal insofar as the quality of the pictures and videos. Unfortunately, DJI customer support is indeed atrocious. Some people will deny it and blame it on "pilot error," but I know from experience that "flyaways" or inexplicable loss of control are a fact. Still, the...
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    My P3P crashed, DJI not cooperating

    DJI has the worst customer service of any commercial entity I have ever dealt with. And it's not just addressing issues such as yours, just getting answers to basic questions like upgrading the firmware is like pulling teeth. In part, I think the people who handle these matters haven't...
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    Talk me out of the Typhoon H

    AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME! I HAVE BOOKMARKED YOUR PAGE.
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    Flyaways?

    Thanks for the detailed explanation. At no time was I in P mode. I was always in F mode. I have now learned that switching to Atti mode might have allowed me to resume control. I didn't think about it then because everything was happening too fast, and anytime I let go of the control...
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    Flyaways?

    As I said, a while after the RTH was initiated, I got the message "Aircraft Descending." That's when I saw it again, and it was indeed descending. I tried to keep it at altitude to prevent it from crashing in the street. At that point, it stopped responding correctly to my inputs.
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    Flyaways?

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    Flyaways?

    I agree with the post below. Any flight that does not respond to the commands is a flyaway.
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    Flyaways?

    Thank you for the analysis. Please note that at 8:16 RTH was initiated. When it climbed to the fail-safe altitude of 400 feet, I lost sight of it. I saw it when it was trying to auto land a couple of hundred feet from the home point, over a busy intersection. That's when I tried to take...
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    Flyaways?

    Thank you for the analysis. Please note that at 8:16 RTH was initiated. When it climbed to the fail-safe altitude of 400 feet, I lost sight of it. I next saw it when it was trying to auto land a couple of hundred feet from the home point, over a busy intersection. That's when I tried to take...
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    Flyaways?

    1. The 75% charge is due to the fact I started to fly using VR goggles for the first time using the FPV Camera app. I didn't like the goggles and landed the bird, then took off again using the DJI GO app. 2. I noticed that about the battery and wondered too why it happened. I have no idea. I...
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    Flyaways?

    Thank you. I was never in ATTI mode, but it seems from what I have read after the incident that switching to it and then back to GPS mode, or staying in ATTI mode to fly with the arrow, might have helped. I attach the flight log. You can also access additional flight data from Healthy Drones...
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    Flyaways?

    Well, it happened to me today and I don't think I made any error. My P3P had taken off from a big, empty parking lot near Fifth Street in Miami Beach and I flew it above and slightly off Alton Road toward the area of South Pointe, a distance of 2,389 feet (according to my flight log), less than...
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    Ethical dilemma

    Not even close: CONFESS.