It's pretty sad but I just lost my Phantom 2 with zenmuse hd-3d and GoPro today.
I was flying near home today and took off with full signal to GPS and calibrated compass like I always do. I initially flew it for a couple minutes and brought it back 'cause I forgot to start recording on my GoPro. Everything went fine and I took off with confidence this time. Once I gained enough altitude about 90m I put on my fatshark and started cruising. It was perfectly fine the first 4 minutes or so and I remember battery level was still at more than 65%. I got a few shots looking down and started to bring it back towards my direction tilting the camera upwards. That's the very last thing I saw through the goggles and suddenly I lost all pictures. I quickly pulled off my fatshark and immediately flipped to failsafe mode. I waited for a good 10 minutes and heard/saw nothing. I then began to panic a little bit and tried switching off my remote and waited for a bit longer. Still nothing... and since I know exactly where I lost signal I quickly hopped onto my car and drove towards it basically tracing the direct route it would have taken to get back to the takeoff location. And over the next hour I frantically tried to search all over and still I never got lucky.
Now the feelings have sunken in. I still couldn't quite figure out what happened because that very moment I lost pictures through the goggles. I thought something went south to the video board or something but how could that affect flight? I mean I've tried using failsafe quite a few times and it seemed quite reliable and I've done the proper pre-flight procedure already. The last moments when I still had visuals everything was smooth and I went back to check and I'm 99% sure I had enough altitude to clear everything nearby at about 100m.
I'm just posting here hoping to get some feedback on what I could have done differently, or to learn what I could have done better to have avoided this. I don't suppose it would be possible to retrieve it at this point since I didn't write a number on it (even if I did I doubt anyone would call). Do you guys have any ideas what really happened?
Thanks..
I was flying near home today and took off with full signal to GPS and calibrated compass like I always do. I initially flew it for a couple minutes and brought it back 'cause I forgot to start recording on my GoPro. Everything went fine and I took off with confidence this time. Once I gained enough altitude about 90m I put on my fatshark and started cruising. It was perfectly fine the first 4 minutes or so and I remember battery level was still at more than 65%. I got a few shots looking down and started to bring it back towards my direction tilting the camera upwards. That's the very last thing I saw through the goggles and suddenly I lost all pictures. I quickly pulled off my fatshark and immediately flipped to failsafe mode. I waited for a good 10 minutes and heard/saw nothing. I then began to panic a little bit and tried switching off my remote and waited for a bit longer. Still nothing... and since I know exactly where I lost signal I quickly hopped onto my car and drove towards it basically tracing the direct route it would have taken to get back to the takeoff location. And over the next hour I frantically tried to search all over and still I never got lucky.
Now the feelings have sunken in. I still couldn't quite figure out what happened because that very moment I lost pictures through the goggles. I thought something went south to the video board or something but how could that affect flight? I mean I've tried using failsafe quite a few times and it seemed quite reliable and I've done the proper pre-flight procedure already. The last moments when I still had visuals everything was smooth and I went back to check and I'm 99% sure I had enough altitude to clear everything nearby at about 100m.
I'm just posting here hoping to get some feedback on what I could have done differently, or to learn what I could have done better to have avoided this. I don't suppose it would be possible to retrieve it at this point since I didn't write a number on it (even if I did I doubt anyone would call). Do you guys have any ideas what really happened?
Thanks..