Hey,
I was taking off from roof of car as usual, spinning up manually, allowing 3-5 sec to spin a bit, and then by adding throttle. After 2-3 meters up above the car roof, P3 went crazy by starting to fly to the left away from me, multiple tries to stabilise P3 failed & it was like 170 m from takeoff position away continuing to randomly drift away.
What I tried:
- tried to push it with sticks to opposite direction as it is drifting, slowed down the drift only;
- tried to switch to A mode, made it even worse;
Luckily, I managed to push it away from approaching forest/trees and pushed in direction of wheat field, where, pushing as low as possible (eye sight) and then executing CSC (usually I dont read manuals at all, but I did for this purchase) to land as safe as possible, but might be that it was too late for CSC. Anyway, at least wheat field.
Then the other part - finding the drone. Luckily connection to remote/pilot app was still good, distance 170m, into the wheat field. Visually impossible to locate, but GPS saved me from loosing my drone. Drone was in the exact position as shown on map via Pilot app and as well it was making noises because of trying to adjust gimbal.
Now at home, I extracted .DAT, unfortunately, Phantom was not set to record mode yet. Now at home, did everything came in mind to check drones health:
- spinning up motors without props - feels/sounds normal;
- moving gimbal;
- adjusting drone position with hand, gimbal adjusts as well;
- no issues shown on Pilot app;
- extracted .DAT files;
- cleaned body - was with some wheat and bit with moisture from wheat field;
- checked whole body against cracks etc, looks like that just original stickers are scratched;
As my flight time is below 4 hours and I am very recent Phantom owner, please, tell me:
- is there I did something wrong when it comes to pre-flight checks what caused drone to act so ?
- is there something better to do in such situations in order to restore control or land it at least at some managed manner?
- is there anything else I should do before trying take-off in order to understand - is my drone still in good condition ?
P.S. unfortunately I did not try Return to Home, would it help as drone was not capable to maintain position in air, and I would risk to bump into that forest;
I was taking off from roof of car as usual, spinning up manually, allowing 3-5 sec to spin a bit, and then by adding throttle. After 2-3 meters up above the car roof, P3 went crazy by starting to fly to the left away from me, multiple tries to stabilise P3 failed & it was like 170 m from takeoff position away continuing to randomly drift away.
What I tried:
- tried to push it with sticks to opposite direction as it is drifting, slowed down the drift only;
- tried to switch to A mode, made it even worse;
Luckily, I managed to push it away from approaching forest/trees and pushed in direction of wheat field, where, pushing as low as possible (eye sight) and then executing CSC (usually I dont read manuals at all, but I did for this purchase) to land as safe as possible, but might be that it was too late for CSC. Anyway, at least wheat field.
Then the other part - finding the drone. Luckily connection to remote/pilot app was still good, distance 170m, into the wheat field. Visually impossible to locate, but GPS saved me from loosing my drone. Drone was in the exact position as shown on map via Pilot app and as well it was making noises because of trying to adjust gimbal.
Now at home, I extracted .DAT, unfortunately, Phantom was not set to record mode yet. Now at home, did everything came in mind to check drones health:
- spinning up motors without props - feels/sounds normal;
- moving gimbal;
- adjusting drone position with hand, gimbal adjusts as well;
- no issues shown on Pilot app;
- extracted .DAT files;
- cleaned body - was with some wheat and bit with moisture from wheat field;
- checked whole body against cracks etc, looks like that just original stickers are scratched;
As my flight time is below 4 hours and I am very recent Phantom owner, please, tell me:
- is there I did something wrong when it comes to pre-flight checks what caused drone to act so ?
- is there something better to do in such situations in order to restore control or land it at least at some managed manner?
- is there anything else I should do before trying take-off in order to understand - is my drone still in good condition ?
P.S. unfortunately I did not try Return to Home, would it help as drone was not capable to maintain position in air, and I would risk to bump into that forest;
