Have I got an unusual battery pop-out..I just started getting use to my P3A (11 flights). And loving the upgrade from my P2V+. SO on my trip to Lake Mead, first time flying over water, I flew the P2V. First battery was great but nervous over water. Second battery I got way over confident and had my friend drive the boat as I piloted the P2. All was going great sweet video. Lost orientation as we went around a cliff on the way to the dam. Instead of the aircraft being piloted correctly, like the boat was, I flew it into a 50' cliff at approx. 20 mph. What a terrible sound, plastic smashing into a rock cliff! Turned the boat around just as she tumbled down the cliff and into the water! It was not over confidence, in reality just STUPID. As we pulled up to the spot it entered the water, (depth around 60' by the cliff and dropping to 175' as you come away from the cliff closer towards the Colorado River).
I had really enjoyed that P2, (111 flights never any problems always hand catch for landings). We were sure all was lost but as we pulled up to the cliff, there it was hanging on a ledge about 3' from going submarine mode to 175' or so. It looked like the ledge was a foot under water but it turned out to be about 8' down on that ledge. Dove down brought her up, put it on the bow and to my pleasant surprise, the battery was long gone. Never saw it so it's probably on the bottom of the lake. After 7 full days in rice-bag set-up, she lives!
Tomorrow looks like a good day to IMU calibrate and hopefully do more than 1 flight. When I took it apart I found the connector to the speed controller was almost separated. I plugged it back in and now all motors are working. Prior to that fix, only 3 spun.
Sorry to ramble on but it feels great to be on the verge of having 2 phantoms again.
So back to the comments on this thread, crash, battery blow-out, submarine mode, speed control fix and 7 days in the rice bag!
Hopefully flight # 112 and many more to come. Many thanks to you folks for having the most informative forum and all the help info provided here. Al T