HI everyone! It's been a while since I've ran into any issues with my P3P fortunately, but about a couple weeks ago I was flying and I ran into a very strange, and stressful issue. I've not flown since due to my anxiety about the situation.
So I took a very successful flight in one location. I calibrated the compass and had no issues flying in the first location. After I finished the first flight, I changed locations to a different spot about .5mi away from the first. I took the P3P out of my car, calibrated again and took off. My flight was going just fine until my issue started suddenly. I had ascended to about 50 ft (from 10ish ft) fairly quickly, held my position momentarily and then started off in one direction (I think I had the right stick close to, if not, max speed) and suddenly the P3 took off on its own, rapidly ascending from my ~50ft to around 100ft and flying away from me.
Now panicking, I looked down at the screen briefly to see a long list of red error messages (I believe it was something about battery overcurrent during discharge). After seeing the errors and watching my Phantom fly away from me while trying to fight it's trajectory with my controller, I toggled the flight mode from gps to atti and then back to gps a couple times in hopes it would do something. Somehow, the phantom stopped flying away from me and I was able to bring it down at a fast rate of speed. I had a semi rough landing, nothing bad at all, but I didn't pause before I landed to see if the phantom had stopped acting up.
I tried to create a disk image from the the phantom to upload online to see errors but when I uploaded it, it didn't seem to have any critical errors listed. I checked back through my dji app to find that it did mention giving me the battery errors during my flight.
I guess my question is what should I do next? Should I stop using this battery? Has anyone else ran into the same thing? It was pretty scary at the time. I'm always pretty cautious when flying, I try to never fly near people and this time I was over an empty field so that paid off. I would greatly appreciate any info. I've got the video feed from when the P3P took off which I will post if it helps at all.
Thanks a ton!
So I took a very successful flight in one location. I calibrated the compass and had no issues flying in the first location. After I finished the first flight, I changed locations to a different spot about .5mi away from the first. I took the P3P out of my car, calibrated again and took off. My flight was going just fine until my issue started suddenly. I had ascended to about 50 ft (from 10ish ft) fairly quickly, held my position momentarily and then started off in one direction (I think I had the right stick close to, if not, max speed) and suddenly the P3 took off on its own, rapidly ascending from my ~50ft to around 100ft and flying away from me.
Now panicking, I looked down at the screen briefly to see a long list of red error messages (I believe it was something about battery overcurrent during discharge). After seeing the errors and watching my Phantom fly away from me while trying to fight it's trajectory with my controller, I toggled the flight mode from gps to atti and then back to gps a couple times in hopes it would do something. Somehow, the phantom stopped flying away from me and I was able to bring it down at a fast rate of speed. I had a semi rough landing, nothing bad at all, but I didn't pause before I landed to see if the phantom had stopped acting up.
I tried to create a disk image from the the phantom to upload online to see errors but when I uploaded it, it didn't seem to have any critical errors listed. I checked back through my dji app to find that it did mention giving me the battery errors during my flight.
I guess my question is what should I do next? Should I stop using this battery? Has anyone else ran into the same thing? It was pretty scary at the time. I'm always pretty cautious when flying, I try to never fly near people and this time I was over an empty field so that paid off. I would greatly appreciate any info. I've got the video feed from when the P3P took off which I will post if it helps at all.
Thanks a ton!