DJI is remotely crashing all Phantom versions now that the Phantom 3 has been released.
result was over a year after he left ALL ESC drives began failing.... eprom worn out failures.... took us a year to replace about 1000 controller cpu boards under warranty....
This can happen, I worked at a large aluminum rolling mill, a programmer who quit his job, placed some software code in the computer that controlled one of the rolling mills to cause it to crash after a certain number of operations. It took months to figure out what was going on.haha!!!! we actually had a software guy who left the company make a last change in the std product before he left..... he had the eeprom write a varable to itself once a minute or so...... result was over a year after he left ALL ESC drives began failing.... eprom worn out failures.... took us a year to replace about 1000 controller cpu boards under warranty....
Is the DJI iOS app good at telling you when to calibrate the compass?
I'm also thinking of getting the new compass, hoping it would make things better. I perform the compass calibration every time I fly from a new location. Also after I get a satellite home lock, I walk the quad around to make sure its GPS knows exactly where I am before I launch. And I also hand launch and before I let go, make sure it's going straight up and not to the side. One time I felt it wanting to veer off as I was about to let go, so I aborted my launch, powered it off and started the launch whole process over.
I know it's just a numbers game before I lose my quad and probably in the water, I do have the Getterback system on it so I could at least recover the footage.
Why did we not see the radar and gimbal position indicators on the left of the screen in the 2nd video?I'm beginning to think loss of compass control. The first clip shows the red arrow going all over the place, so something was affecting it. I have never flown up there before, but a guy on one of my FB pages has, so it can't be anything to do with the surrounding area.
I didn't do the dance, as the location is quite close to where I live and normally fly and I have been up to 40 miles away from the last dance location and the aircraft flew perfectly normally then.
Anyway it's gone now and that's that. So now I have one P2, four controllers (1 x P1, 1xP2V, 1xV+ and the new one with the shoulder wheel), a P1 battery charger, two Vision chargers, 2xRE500 range extenders, three batteries and some accessories.
I wish DJI would sell the Phantom only without all the other stuff.
Not sure I'll be replacing this one. I knew it would crash some time, I'm just glad nobody was underneath it. It's been fun and in the small town where I live, I have become quite the z-list celebrity as everyone got to see the video clips. One got 11,000+ hits on YouTube!
Thanks for all your kind comments, by the way.
Lost my V+ in a reservoir today. I'm trying to understand what went wrong.
Firstly, I am an experienced pilot, hundreds of flights with no issues. The Phantom (this one was my third) is a P2V+ from last June, with the original motors and ESCs, no upgrades done. The only addition was a new Tx with the shoulder wheel which I got months ago and have been using with no issues.
The phantom has never been crashed, is always hand caught so has never had a hard landing. I used it last Friday and it flew perfectly normally.
This morning I drove up to a local reservoir to make a clip of it. I fired up in the usual order, TX, repeater, phantom, linked in the pc (to use reflector for screen recording) almost immediately I got 8 sats, so I took off.
The normal procedure that I use is to hover about 10' up, check everything is ok and then go about filming. So I did this, but the aircraft started drifting around, and would not respond to the controls at all. I was using maximum sticks to keep it airborne. It flew off at about a 45 degree angle towards the ground but I managed to get it going up and it crossed a road and crash landed in a field. Thankfully, this being good old Ireland, it was a bog, and it got a soft landing.
When it all started going wrong, I wasn't looking at the phone screen, using direct line of sight. When the phantom came down, I noticed that the screen said 'battery communication error' and so I believed that a dodgy battery might have been the cause. However, upon reviewing the reflector recording, I can see that this message only popped up on the screen upon impact, and the battery was partially ejected.
Thinking about this a bit more logically here at home, the battery message wouldn't really have much relevance to lack of control, but in the field...
So I changed battery (both are the larger, square pin type) and thought I'd have a second go, believing incorrectly that the battery error message was the issue. I got a gimbal warning message on screen, but this cleared and I took off again. Exactly the same thing happened again, the phantom took off at all sorts of angles, but this time it crash landed in the reservoir and is now lost for good.
Why would this have happened? There can't be any interference coming from anywhere, it's in a mountain range in the middle of nowhere, there are no electricity pylons or anything else close by. I'm at a loss to understand what happened.
Here are the two screen recordings; you can see I had loads of sats. Anyone able to help?
Lost my V+ in a reservoir today. I'm trying to understand what went wrong.
Firstly, I am an experienced pilot, hundreds of flights with no issues. The Phantom (this one was my third) is a P2V+ from last June, with the original motors and ESCs, no upgrades done. The only addition was a new Tx with the shoulder wheel which I got months ago and have been using with no issues.
The phantom has never been crashed, is always hand caught so has never had a hard landing. I used it last Friday and it flew perfectly normally.
This morning I drove up to a local reservoir to make a clip of it. I fired up in the usual order, TX, repeater, phantom, linked in the pc (to use reflector for screen recording) almost immediately I got 8 sats, so I took off.
The normal procedure that I use is to hover about 10' up, check everything is ok and then go about filming. So I did this, but the aircraft started drifting around, and would not respond to the controls at all. I was using maximum sticks to keep it airborne. It flew off at about a 45 degree angle towards the ground but I managed to get it going up and it crossed a road and crash landed in a field. Thankfully, this being good old Ireland, it was a bog, and it got a soft landing.
When it all started going wrong, I wasn't looking at the phone screen, using direct line of sight. When the phantom came down, I noticed that the screen said 'battery communication error' and so I believed that a dodgy battery might have been the cause. However, upon reviewing the reflector recording, I can see that this message only popped up on the screen upon impact, and the battery was partially ejected.
Thinking about this a bit more logically here at home, the battery message wouldn't really have much relevance to lack of control, but in the field...
So I changed battery (both are the larger, square pin type) and thought I'd have a second go, believing incorrectly that the battery error message was the issue. I got a gimbal warning message on screen, but this cleared and I took off again. Exactly the same thing happened again, the phantom took off at all sorts of angles, but this time it crash landed in the reservoir and is now lost for good.
Why would this have happened? There can't be any interference coming from anywhere, it's in a mountain range in the middle of nowhere, there are no electricity pylons or anything else close by. I'm at a loss to understand what happened.
Here are the two screen recordings; you can see I had loads of sats. Anyone able to help?
I fear this every time I launch...it is, after all, prone to crash just like any other computer.
BTW, how did you get the phone's screen included in the video?
I saw this guy's video (What does this do?