Greetings fellow pilots. I am rather sad to make this my first post as I have been reading the forums for the past two weeks since I bought a new Phantom Vision+ V3.
I will cut my story short. Today I have made my ~20th flight. Took all the pre-flight procedures. Calibrated the compass, Full GPS signal, IMU Calibrated. Props Checked, Gimbal functional and all connections were OK. So I took off to fly for about 13 minutes near a pier. It flied normally and there were no collisions of any kind. I landed it safe and neatly. After a minute, without touching the Phantom, I decided to burn a few more minutes of the battery by practicing stable hovering over a few feet height without it drifting off. After a minute or less, One white capped propeller FLIED OFF. It just spun itself off vertically and then the Phanton flipped itself and landed upside down on concrete floor from around 4 feet tall. I was SHOCKED.
The motors were still spinning so I quickly executed CSC. One side of the landing gear broke off. Props were OK. Three propellers remained on. Gimbal was OK thank God. The immediate thought came to my mind was what if it was way up or over the waters? OMG. The props never came off not even once! It just dropped like a rock.
I have read a few threads regarding Phantom 2 failures. Some fellow pilots seem to have encountered this. Since the props are self tightening and they were tightened properly before flight. Was it about the ESC failure that caused the motor to spin backwards so the blade just spun itself off? I am still horrified. I had a Parrot Bebop and one motor failed me and it dropped like a rock but it was only around 3 feel high at that time. I was able to return it to Apple Store and bought the Phantom 2. I am still new to the Phantom but I am a mechanical engineer(wished I am an electrical). I follow the guides, rules and treated the Phantom as a flying instrument but not a toy. I am still puzzled. Going to bring it to a service center tomorrow.
Now that particular motor won't start up properly. It makes a BEEP BEEP BEEP sound while the other 3 motors seem to be fine. I believe the ESC is responsible for this.
Did this happen to anyone else? Is there any tips you guys can share with me?
Thanks guys *sob*
I will cut my story short. Today I have made my ~20th flight. Took all the pre-flight procedures. Calibrated the compass, Full GPS signal, IMU Calibrated. Props Checked, Gimbal functional and all connections were OK. So I took off to fly for about 13 minutes near a pier. It flied normally and there were no collisions of any kind. I landed it safe and neatly. After a minute, without touching the Phantom, I decided to burn a few more minutes of the battery by practicing stable hovering over a few feet height without it drifting off. After a minute or less, One white capped propeller FLIED OFF. It just spun itself off vertically and then the Phanton flipped itself and landed upside down on concrete floor from around 4 feet tall. I was SHOCKED.
The motors were still spinning so I quickly executed CSC. One side of the landing gear broke off. Props were OK. Three propellers remained on. Gimbal was OK thank God. The immediate thought came to my mind was what if it was way up or over the waters? OMG. The props never came off not even once! It just dropped like a rock.
I have read a few threads regarding Phantom 2 failures. Some fellow pilots seem to have encountered this. Since the props are self tightening and they were tightened properly before flight. Was it about the ESC failure that caused the motor to spin backwards so the blade just spun itself off? I am still horrified. I had a Parrot Bebop and one motor failed me and it dropped like a rock but it was only around 3 feel high at that time. I was able to return it to Apple Store and bought the Phantom 2. I am still new to the Phantom but I am a mechanical engineer(wished I am an electrical). I follow the guides, rules and treated the Phantom as a flying instrument but not a toy. I am still puzzled. Going to bring it to a service center tomorrow.
Now that particular motor won't start up properly. It makes a BEEP BEEP BEEP sound while the other 3 motors seem to be fine. I believe the ESC is responsible for this.
Did this happen to anyone else? Is there any tips you guys can share with me?
Thanks guys *sob*