Hello all. I normally fly an Inspire 1 pro but had an unhappy incident with some power lines so there went that. Sooo I ordered an Inspire 2 pro, I always wanted to upgrade but not like that and not this soon.
I had another job to shoot today so I borrowed a P4 pro from a company I do marketing for to shoot the job today. We have a Inspire 1 as well and the P4 is used as a backup.
Anyway, I was flying today in an industrial fabrication yard and everything was going great and was really impressed by the 30 minute flight times. I have a GoPro Hero 3 setup in the yard to do time lapse and had the WiFi turned on so I could stop and start the recording as needed. I had moved the camera to another location in the yard and when I was taking off I flew towards/over where the GoPro was. I was about 40-50’ high and all of the sudden the P4 banked 90 degrees to the left and flew away, dropping altitude as it flew sideways and hit the ground.
My question is could the WiFi from the GoPro have caused this? I did notice earlier that my video feed was a little choppy when I had the GoPro setup near me before moving it to that last location.
The p4 sustained heavy damage. The camera and gimbal broke off, and the chassis is cracked. It still powers up. I will have to replace it so not looking forward to spending more money as I just spent $7700 today on the Inspire 2 with case, batteries etc. I was actually thinking about buying a P4 as a secondary backup. Do you think it would be worth it to send the P4 in for repairs? If it would run $500 or so I would have the P4 I wanted as a backup afteall.
Good thing I got the memory card out and all the footage and stills are fine so at least I can get paid for that shoot.
I had another job to shoot today so I borrowed a P4 pro from a company I do marketing for to shoot the job today. We have a Inspire 1 as well and the P4 is used as a backup.
Anyway, I was flying today in an industrial fabrication yard and everything was going great and was really impressed by the 30 minute flight times. I have a GoPro Hero 3 setup in the yard to do time lapse and had the WiFi turned on so I could stop and start the recording as needed. I had moved the camera to another location in the yard and when I was taking off I flew towards/over where the GoPro was. I was about 40-50’ high and all of the sudden the P4 banked 90 degrees to the left and flew away, dropping altitude as it flew sideways and hit the ground.
My question is could the WiFi from the GoPro have caused this? I did notice earlier that my video feed was a little choppy when I had the GoPro setup near me before moving it to that last location.
The p4 sustained heavy damage. The camera and gimbal broke off, and the chassis is cracked. It still powers up. I will have to replace it so not looking forward to spending more money as I just spent $7700 today on the Inspire 2 with case, batteries etc. I was actually thinking about buying a P4 as a secondary backup. Do you think it would be worth it to send the P4 in for repairs? If it would run $500 or so I would have the P4 I wanted as a backup afteall.
Good thing I got the memory card out and all the footage and stills are fine so at least I can get paid for that shoot.