A friend saw and admired my P3A, so he went out and bought his own P3P. I think he had a minor crash with it (he can be a bit hashy) and then complained that he "couldn't see the picture any more" and asked me if I could take a look. He lives in France (and doesn't speak a word of English - fair enough), he left the quad with me and headed off home.
The controller wouldn't connect to the craft so that would explain the lack of images. I got them to pair up again without any issues but I did also notice that the camera (gimbal) was lying at a rather strange angle; almost 45° form horizontal. I managed to right it using the two-right-finger trick and after an IMU cal, I sent the craft off on a small trip to check it flew OK, which it did.
Then, the other day I was heading off on a job and, knowing the area to be particularly scenic, I took the drone along with me to get some nice pictures and video.
So once I found a suitable launch point from a large balcony (buildings here are full of rebar due to the high probability of earthquakes, a plastic table does the trick) off she went over the Ria Formosa lagoon. I got some nice shots and decided to bring her home the lazy way and hit RTH. I never trust RTH to land in exactly the same spot as take-off and always take over control for the last few feet. All seemed to be OK, but it would NOT hover. As soon as I took my hands off the controls, it would start to drop and/or drift, at one point it was actually below me! I had never done a hand-catch before but in this case it was a necessity as I'd had the low (not critical) battery warning and was worried I was going to crash. I had a real job on my hands (or hand!) getting her close enough to catch - but did manage without any damage to craft or right hand. (Couldn't catch with my left hand as I needed that to maintain altitude). All in all a bit scary.
So what (if anything) did I do wrong? Looking at the flight log (HERE), I see it is saying 'Auto-land' towards the end of the flight. Why is it trying to auto-land after I had cancelled the RTH? And the drifting? Plenty of satellites and not much wind... perhaps there is still something wrong inside there, had I known I certainly wouldn't have sent her off over water!
DJI Go version 3.1.3, I would have to fire up the craft to get her f/w version - but will do if it is likely to help.
Any tips gratefully received, TIA.
The controller wouldn't connect to the craft so that would explain the lack of images. I got them to pair up again without any issues but I did also notice that the camera (gimbal) was lying at a rather strange angle; almost 45° form horizontal. I managed to right it using the two-right-finger trick and after an IMU cal, I sent the craft off on a small trip to check it flew OK, which it did.
Then, the other day I was heading off on a job and, knowing the area to be particularly scenic, I took the drone along with me to get some nice pictures and video.
So once I found a suitable launch point from a large balcony (buildings here are full of rebar due to the high probability of earthquakes, a plastic table does the trick) off she went over the Ria Formosa lagoon. I got some nice shots and decided to bring her home the lazy way and hit RTH. I never trust RTH to land in exactly the same spot as take-off and always take over control for the last few feet. All seemed to be OK, but it would NOT hover. As soon as I took my hands off the controls, it would start to drop and/or drift, at one point it was actually below me! I had never done a hand-catch before but in this case it was a necessity as I'd had the low (not critical) battery warning and was worried I was going to crash. I had a real job on my hands (or hand!) getting her close enough to catch - but did manage without any damage to craft or right hand. (Couldn't catch with my left hand as I needed that to maintain altitude). All in all a bit scary.
So what (if anything) did I do wrong? Looking at the flight log (HERE), I see it is saying 'Auto-land' towards the end of the flight. Why is it trying to auto-land after I had cancelled the RTH? And the drifting? Plenty of satellites and not much wind... perhaps there is still something wrong inside there, had I known I certainly wouldn't have sent her off over water!
DJI Go version 3.1.3, I would have to fire up the craft to get her f/w version - but will do if it is likely to help.
Any tips gratefully received, TIA.