Bought a nicely used Phantom 3 Advanced on eBay, have been flying it in the yard and fields, we live on a farm, lots of open space. Things went well for the first two days, then today (third day) I took it out in a field and was close to some trees, battery got low and the darn thing wanted to fly home but did not have the elevation needed to clear a tree, long story short it crashed into the tree, but gracefully fell through the limbs and landed on the soft (tall brush) ground.
I felt like if I could gain control I could have landed it, but only later thought maybe moving the level to A instead of P, them move it back, might have done that. I don't know for sure, might adjust the low battery fly home settings if possible.
It did break a few props, and the camera arm, sheared the screw off into the motor shaft, so kind of screwed. I removed the camera and it flies fine, just got to get some parts or send this camera off to get some repair.
Lesson learned today, low battery, land the darn thing quick.
I felt like if I could gain control I could have landed it, but only later thought maybe moving the level to A instead of P, them move it back, might have done that. I don't know for sure, might adjust the low battery fly home settings if possible.
It did break a few props, and the camera arm, sheared the screw off into the motor shaft, so kind of screwed. I removed the camera and it flies fine, just got to get some parts or send this camera off to get some repair.
Lesson learned today, low battery, land the darn thing quick.