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Re: 2nd flyaway and crash in 8 months - BEWARE and install S
There's something strange happening with the compass at 1:30 in the video. If you look at the little red arrow in the radar at the bottom left, you can see it starts out facing North. Then over about 4 seconds the arrow turns clockwise until it's pointing South. It doesn't look like the Phantom itself actually turned because the gimbal keeps pointing North and you don't see any legs in the video as the compass turns. So this looks like it could have been a compass failure to me... or it could be a gyro failure if the Phantom uses both compass and gyro to figure out its heading (I don't know). Just another possibility to consider.
Was this a Phantom 2 V3, with the new compass design?
There's something strange happening with the compass at 1:30 in the video. If you look at the little red arrow in the radar at the bottom left, you can see it starts out facing North. Then over about 4 seconds the arrow turns clockwise until it's pointing South. It doesn't look like the Phantom itself actually turned because the gimbal keeps pointing North and you don't see any legs in the video as the compass turns. So this looks like it could have been a compass failure to me... or it could be a gyro failure if the Phantom uses both compass and gyro to figure out its heading (I don't know). Just another possibility to consider.
Was this a Phantom 2 V3, with the new compass design?