As some may remember I flew my P2V into a lake about a month ago. Replaced the lost battery and camera. Since installed a RP gimbal. Since the lake incident I have been questioning whether my P2V is flying as good as it used to. It seems to have trouble staying in one place. Especially when turning.
The first flight with the RP was in a strong wind so I attributed any drift to the wind. The following morning in fairly calm conditions I took off from my driveway to about 6 feet and it kept wanting to climb. Also it drifted around. I kept it down and kept correcting its position and it finally seemed to settle down. The video of both flights look good due to the RP.
High winds kept it grounded this weekend but this morning I took it up again. It was somewhat erratic and kept wanting to come down. I kept pushing it back up to around 10 feet. I took it up to 70 feet to fly over some trees. I pointed the camera down and was looking at the trees when suddenly it started to spin around. I fought it to keep it near having trouble determining its orientation. I finally got it back down barely keeping it from crashing into a tree.
So, I showed it had 10 sats. It always seems to follow my stick inputs. It seems however to have trouble staying in one place and recently with altitude. BTW after only a few minutes this morning into the flight the battery was showing 68%. By the time I landed it it was close to 50%. I just plugged it into the assistant software and it shows 53% and balanced.
I'm going to open it up tonight and check what I can see. Seems like the GPS is working and reporting number of sats. It is staying level making me think the IMU is OK. I suppose a flaky motor or ESC could cause the same symptom. Any ideas?
Geo
The first flight with the RP was in a strong wind so I attributed any drift to the wind. The following morning in fairly calm conditions I took off from my driveway to about 6 feet and it kept wanting to climb. Also it drifted around. I kept it down and kept correcting its position and it finally seemed to settle down. The video of both flights look good due to the RP.
High winds kept it grounded this weekend but this morning I took it up again. It was somewhat erratic and kept wanting to come down. I kept pushing it back up to around 10 feet. I took it up to 70 feet to fly over some trees. I pointed the camera down and was looking at the trees when suddenly it started to spin around. I fought it to keep it near having trouble determining its orientation. I finally got it back down barely keeping it from crashing into a tree.
So, I showed it had 10 sats. It always seems to follow my stick inputs. It seems however to have trouble staying in one place and recently with altitude. BTW after only a few minutes this morning into the flight the battery was showing 68%. By the time I landed it it was close to 50%. I just plugged it into the assistant software and it shows 53% and balanced.
I'm going to open it up tonight and check what I can see. Seems like the GPS is working and reporting number of sats. It is staying level making me think the IMU is OK. I suppose a flaky motor or ESC could cause the same symptom. Any ideas?
Geo