Ok so I am a long time Phantom user, we bought the Phantom 1 w/ Zenmuse H3-2D gimbal right when it came out last spring to supplement our production company with some aerial video options. The thing definitely had its quirks, but overall did what it was supposed to and flew quite straight and true.
Fast forward to now, we have just purchased a Phantom 2 with the full kit, downlink, iosd mini, H3-3D, flytrex kit etc. Overall this thing is way better, but I have had a couple of disconcerting crashes that I am hoping to resolve.
I've crashed it twice in two days, each time it happened as I was descending (very slowly, I am very careful flying these things), and the thing clearly got out of sync and began spiralling downwards and could not be recovered using any combination of throttle or counter movement. Luckily, the crashes happened from ~20 ft. so minus a bit of a yardsale of all the tiny electronic pieces everything was in working order afterwards. These two crashes have made me extremely nervous about flying it high or over water/brush etc. I know we had plenty of crashes with our original phantom trying to get the hang of it, but found that it was pretty hard to take out of the air, so this has concerned me quite a bit.
Anyways there is a video below you can see, it begins to wobble uncontrollably and then eventually spiral downwards as you will see (sort of).
Any help or advice would be much appreciated!
http://youtu.be/8FJeFXnZheY
Fast forward to now, we have just purchased a Phantom 2 with the full kit, downlink, iosd mini, H3-3D, flytrex kit etc. Overall this thing is way better, but I have had a couple of disconcerting crashes that I am hoping to resolve.
I've crashed it twice in two days, each time it happened as I was descending (very slowly, I am very careful flying these things), and the thing clearly got out of sync and began spiralling downwards and could not be recovered using any combination of throttle or counter movement. Luckily, the crashes happened from ~20 ft. so minus a bit of a yardsale of all the tiny electronic pieces everything was in working order afterwards. These two crashes have made me extremely nervous about flying it high or over water/brush etc. I know we had plenty of crashes with our original phantom trying to get the hang of it, but found that it was pretty hard to take out of the air, so this has concerned me quite a bit.
Anyways there is a video below you can see, it begins to wobble uncontrollably and then eventually spiral downwards as you will see (sort of).
Any help or advice would be much appreciated!
http://youtu.be/8FJeFXnZheY