Hi All,
I had a bit of a fright yesterday when flying my P3P. I was taking some photos of boats moored in a local bay and when the battery level was getting low the drone seemed to go into automatic return to home mode, but instead of returning to home it appeared to be flying out to sea. I managed to resume manual control, and just about got it back to land with a bit of a bump in some long grass, one motor was briefly obstructed but I reacted with a CSC fairly quickly, and there doesn't appear to be any serious damage fortunately.
I would be very interested if anyone could please help shed any light on what I might have done wrong during this flight, as I would be very keen to avoid making the same mistake again.
If it helps, I have already uploaded the .txt log from the tablet and the .dat file from the drone to dropbox, they are available at these links:
Dropbox - FLY065.DAT
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mtifp0 ... 6-41-09%5D.txt?dl=0
I uploaded the file to HealthyDrones - link: HealthyDrones.com - Innovative flight data analysis that matters
and Phantom Log Viewer here: Phantom Log Viewer - PhantomHelp.com
I don't think that I did anything different on this flight. I had just successfully completed two earlier flights with two other batteries in the hour before this flight from the exact same location, but I realise that on the balance of probability it is likely to be caused by something I have missed, and it might help me and others to avoid a similar situation if the reason can be found.
The start of the flight which I captured on video seemed perfectly normal. I don't have any video of the Go Home section of the flight though as I had been taking photos of the boats on the way back.
After the crash landing I swapped in my final spare battery (fully charged) and did a quick auto takeoff and auto landing which seemed perfectly fine, which was a huge relief!
Any help in identifying what went wrong would be very much appreciated, thanks..
Kind regards,
Steve
I had a bit of a fright yesterday when flying my P3P. I was taking some photos of boats moored in a local bay and when the battery level was getting low the drone seemed to go into automatic return to home mode, but instead of returning to home it appeared to be flying out to sea. I managed to resume manual control, and just about got it back to land with a bit of a bump in some long grass, one motor was briefly obstructed but I reacted with a CSC fairly quickly, and there doesn't appear to be any serious damage fortunately.
I would be very interested if anyone could please help shed any light on what I might have done wrong during this flight, as I would be very keen to avoid making the same mistake again.
If it helps, I have already uploaded the .txt log from the tablet and the .dat file from the drone to dropbox, they are available at these links:
Dropbox - FLY065.DAT
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mtifp0 ... 6-41-09%5D.txt?dl=0
I uploaded the file to HealthyDrones - link: HealthyDrones.com - Innovative flight data analysis that matters
and Phantom Log Viewer here: Phantom Log Viewer - PhantomHelp.com
I don't think that I did anything different on this flight. I had just successfully completed two earlier flights with two other batteries in the hour before this flight from the exact same location, but I realise that on the balance of probability it is likely to be caused by something I have missed, and it might help me and others to avoid a similar situation if the reason can be found.
The start of the flight which I captured on video seemed perfectly normal. I don't have any video of the Go Home section of the flight though as I had been taking photos of the boats on the way back.
After the crash landing I swapped in my final spare battery (fully charged) and did a quick auto takeoff and auto landing which seemed perfectly fine, which was a huge relief!
Any help in identifying what went wrong would be very much appreciated, thanks..
Kind regards,
Steve