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My Brother has a Phantom 1 that he has flown for about a year now. It has a Futaba r/c Tx, not the white stock one.... if it matters.
Anyway, he said he was going to have a friend learn to fly and he had it in GPS mode and was basically hands off hovering at 20 feet while he was explaining all the control inputs (for about 2 minutes) to his "student" and then the Phantom started climbing for no reason. He tried to cut the throttle but to no avail.
He switched it to ATTI mode and then the motors shut down and it dropped like a rock from 50 feet damaging the gimbal. He said he gave it full throttle and nothing....
He said he has MANY times gone from GPS to ATTI and even Return To Home (RTH) with no problems.
It sounds like it started to go into RTH because there was no stick input for a long time??... has anyone heard of this condition?
Furthermore, when he went from GPS to ATTI mode why did the motors shut down?
Anyone ever have any of these issues?
Thanks for any ideas....
Anyway, he said he was going to have a friend learn to fly and he had it in GPS mode and was basically hands off hovering at 20 feet while he was explaining all the control inputs (for about 2 minutes) to his "student" and then the Phantom started climbing for no reason. He tried to cut the throttle but to no avail.
He switched it to ATTI mode and then the motors shut down and it dropped like a rock from 50 feet damaging the gimbal. He said he gave it full throttle and nothing....
He said he has MANY times gone from GPS to ATTI and even Return To Home (RTH) with no problems.
It sounds like it started to go into RTH because there was no stick input for a long time??... has anyone heard of this condition?
Furthermore, when he went from GPS to ATTI mode why did the motors shut down?
Anyone ever have any of these issues?
Thanks for any ideas....