First flight fly away....P3A crash...
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The camera is destroyed (broke off), There are very small cracks in the case you can tell it was tweaked because the silver stickers are bubbled, the landing gear is attached but the antennas are hanging off of it, no blades were broke. I brought it back to the driveway and everything powered back up and I actually hovered it about a foot off the ground but it wouldn't get GPS signal so something else inside is probably toast.
I know while it was under control it did not touch the power lines. When you see it start drifting towards them in the first video I did not have control of it
ianwood
Taco Wrangler
Those power lines are not the issue. It has a bad compass calibration. Classic TBE. Follow this and you will be fine: Compass Calibration, A Complete Primer | DJI Phantom Forum
EDIT: Of course, you will need a need a camera.
EDIT: Of course, you will need a need a camera.
Oso
Premium Pilot
Agreed that flying near power lines can be done safely and I have done so numerous times. What it looked like initially from the healthy drones log and then later from the videos is that it actually hit the power lines. Since the OP said that he wasn't in control as it flew to the power lines, it would have to be something else as you noted.
Maybe it's just my limited exposure, but I still haven't seen a reported case where a P3 has actually had a "fly away" that could not have been prevented. I always try to follow any thread with "fly away" in the title just in case one does happen.
I should have posted a better title.. This was my second flight (1st session)
I should have posted a better title, my apologizes .. This was my second flight (1st session). I had a previous flight of almost 5 minutes in roughly the same area with now issue. I'll post what that log looks like.
Oso
Premium Pilot
I'm so sorry to hear that you had damage. Its heartbreaking for all of us when a P3 goes down hard. I hope you can get it back to normal soon.
If you follow the instructions here should be able to get more info about the crash, you want to get and post the .dat file....
FLYXXX.DAT
FLYXXX.DAT
I don't see home point being set. Being in beginning mode how would it know it reached maximum distance. Could it be it was keying off the location of your first flight for HP?
ianwood
Taco Wrangler
This. Healthydrones is not very useful for diagnosis. In the DAT file, I bet you will see some interesting MOD values.
Dealer said they would exchange it for me.... shipping it out tomorrow... hope they come through
Thats really good news.... id still tru and find a more open area to hone your skills though. It will be more fun also.
Probably not. If you can't Dropbox it then you could upload it to FLYXXX.DAT and I'll retrieve it and Dropbox it for you. Ignore the suggestion to use the offline version and push the "Upload" button. You'll need to let me know what the file name is.
So sorry for your loss, also makes me sick. I am still looking at this...I am not as good as @Luap but I am just using excel and charts. It looks like it went below your takeoff point and backup without motors on, likely maybe it crashed lower and you carried it up back...or crash made it look like it went below ground level. Anyway, I see some disturbance in the MagMod but I don't think enough to cause an issue though I don't have a lot of experience with that. I do see full throttle and elevator (down and full back) followed by a CSC (motor off) event which turned the motors off. At this point it was maybe 50 feet up, did you do this on purpose because it was not responding maybe? Shortly after there is another CSC and the motors came back on briefly. I did not see anything that looked like a collision on the accelerometers but I will look more tomorrow. Below is a graph of the CSC event...
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