I was flying a Phantom 4 Advanced for a client of mine and hit a powerline. It dropped to the pavement and the only damage was the gimbal broke completely off but no scratches to the camera itself and the body is unscratched as well.
I sent it to a repair shop in Florida and they finally came...
it was in full gps mode, never switched to atti mode. I could have possibly recovered had I switched to atti mode in time but it happened too quick and was only about 50’ up so no time to do much.
The fabrication yard did have a WiFi signal but only had the video feed transmission troubles...
Good news was I was able to salvage the footage.
I looked at the flight log and right after I took off there was a weak gps signal notification, right about where it passed over the GoPro. It also said something about the IMU as well, but that may have been after the crash.
I set up the GoPro later in the day, before that the Drone operated flawlessly. I had initially set up the GoPro near me and noticed that I had some video transmission issues from time to time. Then I moved the GoPro to another location about 200 feet away to catch another angle . When I took...
Hello all. I normally fly an Inspire 1 pro but had an unhappy incident with some power lines so there went that. Sooo I ordered an Inspire 2 pro, I always wanted to upgrade but not like that and not this soon.
I had another job to shoot today so I borrowed a P4 pro from a company I do...
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