Recent content by Ferdi

My Inspire1 fell out of the sky in a very similar looking event. Was only 26m high and it just dropped like a stone, into a lake... None of these machines are immune to an elctro-brainfart. Only difference is that if the I1 does it you're outta some serious cash. Makes losing a P3 feel like...

Well then I'm a liar. Flew yesterday in relatively strong wind and my P3 was bobbing and weaving like crazy, gaining and losing altitude between 50cm and 1m. Granted, I was flying in much stronger wind than I'd usually fly. Have flown the Inspire1 in similar conditions and it is rock solid...

I have both. I love the P3Pro. Very capable little machine, but not even close to the performance of the Inspire though. When the wind is up (here in New Zealand that's most of the time) the Inspire sits solid while my poor P3Pro ducks and dives like a drunk on a pogo-stick. Also, when chasing...

I would switch to Atti just before takeoff, and fly around over ice/ground for a bit to test. Good luck and if possible upload some video/photos. Would be awesome to see where you're flyin':D

I'm curious (and very jealous at the same time:DWould looooooove to visit the Arctic)... I assume you were flying in GPS mode since you mentioned the 15 satts. If you fly in Atti you shouldn't have compass problems, since (as far as I understand) Atti takes both the GPS and Compass out of the...

Flew 3 batts today after updating. Did IMU & Stick calibration after the update. Mods looked good so I didn't do the compass. At the beginning of the first flight the P3P seemed to struggle to maintain altitude, it would bob up and down and I could hear the motors revving up and down as it was...

Totally agree! My Inspire1 fell out of the sky for no reason. If it was over people, that 3kg object with huge blades spinning at 9000rpm falling from 26m could've killed someone. These things are not perfect. Even if you are the most competent pilot, there are no redundancies here. You lose a...

Interesting... I've heard that the VPS can cause problems on the P3, so I've never had it turned on. Always wished I could turn it off on the Inspire1 too. Since there was no toilet bowling before going loopy, you might be correct in the assumption that it wasn't compass related.

As far as I understand it (and my understanding is limited by what I've read on the Inspire forum posted by some very knowledgable gents), if the compass is out of wack it conflicts with the GPS, they start fighting, about which way is north/south/east/west, and the bird starts behaving crazy...

1400-1600 are good. Think 1380 is a bit low:oops:

I always shoot manual. I use ND's no my shutter stays at 1/50th and my ISO 100...

Very likely got a lot of metal in there, although you'd have to be fairly close for it to have an effect. Sometimes these things just have a "brain-fart". No real way to avoid a fly away completely, but the best bet is to turn "Multiple Flight Mode" on, and next time she misbehaves, switch to...

My opinion (gathered from the smart guys over on the Inspire Forum) is that the more you calibrate, the better chance you have of getting a bad calibration. Find a place where there are no interference of any sort, calibrate there, shut down bird, then move 20m in any direction, restart the...

I don't know, but most likely something was having an effect on the compass while on the ground, showing normal compass readings. Then 100ft in the air, that effect no longer had an impact on the compass. I had a fly away with the Inspire1 where after 5 mins of perfect flying and more than 250m...

Yes you're right that the P3 switched to Atti if it loses GPS, although it seems to have done so only briefly (for about a second when he got the Compass error message). Getting the compass error message seems to indicate a bad calibration.