What simulator?Are you certain you turned on your remote first? Did you try the simulator to see if maybe your controller is defective?
What simulator?Are you certain you turned on your remote first? Did you try the simulator to see if maybe your controller is defective?
I believe in iOS there is a flight simulator. It's not in the android app though. I'm running android, so I don't know much about it.
I have one that is very puzzling for you guys. Turned my remote on, bent over and turned p3p on and turned around to walk away and it came to life, shot up and away as fast as it could and would not respond to the remote. I frantically tried to open and get the app connected while trying to get it to respond to the controls but the app also would not connect. Very quickly it was gone out of sight. Since the app would not connect it did not create any logs at all. This thing was only maybe 2 weeks old with just a few flights on it. Bought it along with the 2 year square trade warranty from BH photo. Gotta get in touch with DJI and square trade today and see if either of them can offer a solution. I have my doubts about dji since there are no logs and I dont think square trade will cover it if I cant retrieve it to send it to them? Everybody cross your fingers for me.
If DJI wont do anything I will be DJI's worst nightmare.
Did it just fly straight up? Did it fly up for a bit and then horizontally? Did you try turning the remote off?
Bizzar story. Would be good if hi could have also included info on your Phantom such as firmware version etc. I guess your Phantom 3 wanted to go bald to China. Hope you get some resolution and hope it didn't land on anyone.
Went full blast up and away so i dont think it went into RTH mode. That mode goes straight up then in the direction of home point. It was silent for a couple seconds then went full blast.
Don't get too stressed over "all these stories" - I'm not saying that weird stuff doesn't happen - but you have to remember that human nature is to report abnormalities.... so for each crash/fly-away story you read - think about the 1000's of successful flights that people don't bother posting anything about. It's called the availability bias - people always get more afraid to fly when a plane crashes than when they haven't heard about a crash in a long time. Don't let these very specific instances ruin your enjoyment of the hobby... just see if you can learn from them or help the poster....
This video come to mind.... It's not a rare thing.. its happening....
The scenario he is describing is where the quad lands then, after a short time, takes off to try and fly "home" due to low battery.
The scenario prostreetcamaro is describing is that the RC was turned on, then the quad, then with no input it simply flew away without warming up or arming the motors (the little revving up it does at the start)
prostreetcamaro, did it fly off towards the location you last flew at? What it sounds like is that the quad turned on and resumed its last state - meaning, it wasn't connected to the RC and it thought it was very far away from home point, so tried to RTH.
You're certain it was turned off between flights? Did you remove/replace the battery between flights?
Sounds pretty weird-- a little too weird to buy into and the first one recorded on this forum that I know of. I hope this isn't just another DJI sabotage story.
If that actually happened, really sorry about that. Hope you find it soon or get it replaced.