Last week I was at a resort in Cabo Mexico with my P4 and on my first flight (from a balcony) I sent it out over the beautiful marina, it was about 1,000 feet distance from me and only about 80 feet in the air when the video feed on my ipad showed it was tumbling - rolling which looked like it was falling.....it was rolling around crazy as if the P4 was in a free-fall. This continued for about a minute. In my sheer panic I held hard 'UP' stick and was trying to recover it from falling by using the controls......well had I looked at the telemetry data I would have seen that it was NOT falling however I sent it up to nearly 1000 feet altitude during my panic. I brought it back with nothing damaged and I had no repeats of such a crazy camera gimbal rolling out of control however I also did not try flying from the balcony again.
Questions: Can flying from an area with metal rails/fence trim etc. such as a hotel balcony cause the gimbal to roll around erratic? Could this be a compass calibration issue?
Questions: Can flying from an area with metal rails/fence trim etc. such as a hotel balcony cause the gimbal to roll around erratic? Could this be a compass calibration issue?
