Recent content by KingOfPain

Stiggy, It does look pretty cool! I was thinking sort of a "Mad Max" look. Problem is it has a distinct spoiled seafood smell to it.

That looks to be the likeliest cause of the crash. I did not check the tightness of the props prior to this flight. Poor preflight procedures may have caused the loss of the drone.

On or around May 8th I posted a thread that detailed the loss of my P3 Pro over a saltwater marsh in Murrells Inlet, SC. Most responses to my pain suggested catastrophic rotor separation. The flight record gave the recovery team a good idea of where to search. This part of the inlet is...

Thanks for the quick response. Had carbon fiber props installed. Thought they were "self-tightening"? Had checked them prior to flight. Think they could have worked themselves loose? Or prop broke?

Flying my P3P today over a saltwater marsh, demonstrating the streaming video capability to a couple of neighbors. Drone was at a stationary hover of approx. 180 ft., about 700 ft. away from me. I was yawing the drone slowly counterclockwise when suddenly it experienced some sort of...