Recent content by MissStabby

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    Phantom 1.1.1 Falls from sky - Apparent battery failure?

    strange suggestion but, could it be an unintentional shutdown command? Sometimes when you press one of the shutdown commands into the remote, like both sticks 100% down for a second or two, it kills the engines instantly. Could this maybe be the thing that occured 30meters into the sky?
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    Rough landing, landinggear screwthreads stripped?

    Fun fact, i tried the epoxy but the screw just dug out the entire layer of epoxy upon screwing in the screw to test it out. though upon closer examination i discovered the threads ran a lot deeper than the reach of the screws. So i just got a slightly longer screw, and it instantly solved the...
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    Rough landing, landinggear screwthreads stripped?

    A thing that really surprised me was the fact that the full manual mode with the phantom doesn't automatically reset it's pitch to level after the right stick has returned to neutral position. So the sticks are basically just say, "pitch more in that direction, and then hold that pitch unless...
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    Rough landing, landinggear screwthreads stripped?

    I'm flying a (third hand) first generation Phantom, previously only flew with a Cheerson CX-10a nanoquad, they are fully manual and great fun and they fit in your pockets ;)
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    Rough landing, landinggear screwthreads stripped?

    hmm good idea, though wont all the extra metal reduce the flying time a lot?
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    Rough landing, landinggear screwthreads stripped?

    are there any good tutorials on using epoxy to rethread the screws using epoxy? (assuming you dont mean just glueing the gear to the drone)
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    Rough landing, landinggear screwthreads stripped?

    On a recent flight i had kind of a rough landing where all the weight came down on one of the two landing gears The drone itself seems fine, no prop damage or other weirdness however, When recovered i found that the center screws were still in place but the outer screws were launched away by the...