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Well the dreaded day has come.. not even had the P4P for 2 weeks and it ended up in the bottom of the ocean!
Story: Launching from the front of a stationary boat (done this many times with P3P & P4)
Turn on aircraft and motors with CSC.
I push up on the throttle to 100%, absolutely no response then all of a sudden the drone flips over to the left.
The drone is about to fall off the boat (with motors on) so I jumped to try and catch it,
Drone chewed up my left hand (don't think i need stitches, lots of blood tho)
So I drop the drone and it plops right into the ocean.
I put the controller down, take out the cell phone and keys from my pocket and dive in head first fully clothed.
Unfortunately I don't see the drone as it has sunk to the bottom.
Luckily the iPad is still connected to I can see the drone on the GPS, I get back on the boat, look over to where the ipad says the drone is, and there is a big light under the water next to the boat.
I jump in again and see my P4P upside down on the bottom so I go down and grab it.
I pull out the battery (battery lights were not on but the LEDs on the wings were turned on) then battery juice starts going all over the boat and so is the blood from my hands.
I dry out the bird and put a fan on it for 2 hours. I have dinner come back and the insides are dry but it looks like salt is everywhere, so i spray some 70% iso alcohol to get the salt off. It is now in a bag of rice for the next 3 days.
What the heck happened?? I have done this procedure many times before and no problems. Today, first time with the P4P on the boat, and boom, it screws up instantly by flipping over and not responding to my controls.
Here is my flight log: HealthyDrones.com - Innovative flight data analysis that matters
Thank you in advance for any help. I will be sending it in to DJI under warranty for malfunction. Any recommendations to help my case? Thank you.
Well the dreaded day has come.. not even had the P4P for 2 weeks and it ended up in the bottom of the ocean!
Story: Launching from the front of a stationary boat (done this many times with P3P & P4)
Turn on aircraft and motors with CSC.
I push up on the throttle to 100%, absolutely no response then all of a sudden the drone flips over to the left.
The drone is about to fall off the boat (with motors on) so I jumped to try and catch it,
Drone chewed up my left hand (don't think i need stitches, lots of blood tho)
So I drop the drone and it plops right into the ocean.
I put the controller down, take out the cell phone and keys from my pocket and dive in head first fully clothed.
Unfortunately I don't see the drone as it has sunk to the bottom.
Luckily the iPad is still connected to I can see the drone on the GPS, I get back on the boat, look over to where the ipad says the drone is, and there is a big light under the water next to the boat.
I jump in again and see my P4P upside down on the bottom so I go down and grab it.
I pull out the battery (battery lights were not on but the LEDs on the wings were turned on) then battery juice starts going all over the boat and so is the blood from my hands.
I dry out the bird and put a fan on it for 2 hours. I have dinner come back and the insides are dry but it looks like salt is everywhere, so i spray some 70% iso alcohol to get the salt off. It is now in a bag of rice for the next 3 days.
What the heck happened?? I have done this procedure many times before and no problems. Today, first time with the P4P on the boat, and boom, it screws up instantly by flipping over and not responding to my controls.
Here is my flight log: HealthyDrones.com - Innovative flight data analysis that matters
Thank you in advance for any help. I will be sending it in to DJI under warranty for malfunction. Any recommendations to help my case? Thank you.