Recent content by WithoutATrace

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    Compass calibrate every flight?

    Well I'm glad Google steered me to this thread. I used to always recalibrate before every flight. But one time I got a clean calibration without error but near a bridge. Well the unit took off, went on a left spiral, crashed straight into the bridge and promptly fell into the river.
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    Crashed Phantom 3 Pro Into a Bridge, Into Water, Recovered and Back to Flying!

    The card itself works just fine. From what I understand, the video recorded is held under the onboard volatile memory and processed prior to being saved to the card. That time can be anywhere from 10-30 seconds of delay. In this case it looks like that 10 seconds is what it took to crash into...
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    Crashed Phantom 3 Pro Into a Bridge, Into Water, Recovered and Back to Flying!

    Well I tried to recover it, looks like it only recorded the first 11 seconds, right when it just started to fly over our heads. Darn that volatile memory!
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    Phantom Advanced sunk in lake

    Oh no problem at all, I would have done that dive for free to go down and get it for you! What did you tell the AMEX people for them to give you partial compensation?
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    Deep discharge to 8% destroyed my battery

    Like mentioned above, I'm sure they'll probably warranty it! I'm sure the QC coming out of China isn't top notch, there is bound to be defects here and there.
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    Crashed Phantom 3 Pro Into a Bridge, Into Water, Recovered and Back to Flying!

    Hello Fellow Forum Members: I signed up here just to share my story. I've logged about 100 hours of flight on my Phantom 3 Professional already, even created a Youtube Channel for it! Not for shameless self promotion, but I'd love some more subscribers...
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    Phantom Advanced sunk in lake

    How deep was the lake? I would dive down there and recover it!