Well it happened. I took my poor phantom over to my parents house to show my father. I had told him about the Phantom and he had seen some of my video's but he had never seen if fly. I was looking forward to letting try my FPV fat sharks.
I had recently upgraded to 2.0 but had not flown since. Well I got set up in the back yard.. waited for the green GPS lights to flash and took off. As soon as I got airborn I knew something was off. The Phantom started to fly toward my dad. I corrected this and pushed the sticks to the right to get it out and away and flew out 50 ft to a clear spot ( my parents back yard goes over a cliff and then 40 ft down) I could tell by the way it was flying something was off. I let go of the sticks and the phantom went hard over to the left. I mean it went sideways and power dove into the ground. I watched in horror as pieces went flying as it hit the wet rocks and mud below. My boys retrieved the phantom from the wet ground. 3 blades broken and my FPV card smashed. The battery had popped out and my gimble and gopro were knocked off. The phantom itself seems ok. My gopro on the other hand.... Time will tell . The go pro does now not read the sd card. The great death film of this flight is corrupt and wont play. If I had to hazard a guess I would think that my compass was WAY off. Hindsight said that I should have calibrated the compass first but I have never had ANYTHING close to this happen before.
I will attempt to put the pieces back together in the morning and hope that the little water that may have gotten into my gopro has dried. Time will tell
I had recently upgraded to 2.0 but had not flown since. Well I got set up in the back yard.. waited for the green GPS lights to flash and took off. As soon as I got airborn I knew something was off. The Phantom started to fly toward my dad. I corrected this and pushed the sticks to the right to get it out and away and flew out 50 ft to a clear spot ( my parents back yard goes over a cliff and then 40 ft down) I could tell by the way it was flying something was off. I let go of the sticks and the phantom went hard over to the left. I mean it went sideways and power dove into the ground. I watched in horror as pieces went flying as it hit the wet rocks and mud below. My boys retrieved the phantom from the wet ground. 3 blades broken and my FPV card smashed. The battery had popped out and my gimble and gopro were knocked off. The phantom itself seems ok. My gopro on the other hand.... Time will tell . The go pro does now not read the sd card. The great death film of this flight is corrupt and wont play. If I had to hazard a guess I would think that my compass was WAY off. Hindsight said that I should have calibrated the compass first but I have never had ANYTHING close to this happen before.
I will attempt to put the pieces back together in the morning and hope that the little water that may have gotten into my gopro has dried. Time will tell