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Was out yesterday morning killing a little time before work and had my P4 in the air for a while using a new iPad Air 2. Was using Litchi on that flight and had it in the air about 15 or so minutes.
Returned and exchanged battery and then closed out Litchi and opened Go4 for another flight. Fired everything up and when the bird acquired the needed GPS signal I started to take off, I let the motors idle a few seconds before pushing the left stick forward to lift off. Once it started in the air the bird immediately tilted backwards in place so far that the rear blades contacted the ground and broke. (I use carbon/plastic hybrid).. the split second prior to the complete tilt reminded me of the jerking in the hovering it has experienced since on of the summer firmware updates. None of those jerks ever equaled the the rearward tilt that this one experienced though.
Yesterday evening I put some new blades on and decided to play with some hovering inside the garage to see if it was going to do it again.
No issues and it hovered almost perfectly in place for 5 min with no jerking.
It’s like now I cannot trust the bird to fly right. Has anybody experienced any issue like this?
A review of the flight log shows only 5.5 seconds of data in 51 lines on the CSU file. On the last 10th of a second I see where it pitched a -11 degrees and then immediately back to -3.1 before stopping data recording. At that close to the ground 12 degrees is enough to let the blades hit the ground.
Anybody have any thoughts or experiences on this?
Returned and exchanged battery and then closed out Litchi and opened Go4 for another flight. Fired everything up and when the bird acquired the needed GPS signal I started to take off, I let the motors idle a few seconds before pushing the left stick forward to lift off. Once it started in the air the bird immediately tilted backwards in place so far that the rear blades contacted the ground and broke. (I use carbon/plastic hybrid).. the split second prior to the complete tilt reminded me of the jerking in the hovering it has experienced since on of the summer firmware updates. None of those jerks ever equaled the the rearward tilt that this one experienced though.
Yesterday evening I put some new blades on and decided to play with some hovering inside the garage to see if it was going to do it again.
No issues and it hovered almost perfectly in place for 5 min with no jerking.
It’s like now I cannot trust the bird to fly right. Has anybody experienced any issue like this?
A review of the flight log shows only 5.5 seconds of data in 51 lines on the CSU file. On the last 10th of a second I see where it pitched a -11 degrees and then immediately back to -3.1 before stopping data recording. At that close to the ground 12 degrees is enough to let the blades hit the ground.
Anybody have any thoughts or experiences on this?