The other day I had small crash (less than 5 feet in the air) and the phantom vision hit the sidewalk and flipped upside down, broke a propeller blade and somehow the battery slipped out (I snap it in very well every time, I think the 2 clips to hold it in are not enough for a crash).
I replaced the propeller and put a freshly charged battery in, did all the pre-flight checks and waited for it to acquire at least 8 satellites (it grabbed 9), initiated a CSC to start up the motors, went to take off slowly. Instead of taking off level like it usually does it was starting to lunge forward so I stopped the motors, powered off, powered back on and went through all the normal pre-flight again and it did the same thing when I tried to take off.
Does anyone have any information on why it would do this? I read something about how the GPS could be messed up, but that was someone who wasn't able to acquire satellites. My Phantom acquires satellites and acts completely normal in that regard.
Is this a case of having to re-calibrate the compass since it crashed? I obviously calibrated before my first flight (was extremely careful and drove out to a farm field with my son to make sure there would be no interference), but I have not re-calibrated since the small crash because I have drive a ways to get to a good area.
Like I said, the crash was from less than 5 feet and there aren't even any real scratches anywhere. I did notice a scuff on the compass metal though. I panicked as the battery was at 20 percent and the Phantom was starting to drop in altitude so I was trying to fly it to a good landing spot and that's when it all went south for me.
If anyone could shed some light on what they think it might be, things to try or things to look for it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading.
btothemalm
I replaced the propeller and put a freshly charged battery in, did all the pre-flight checks and waited for it to acquire at least 8 satellites (it grabbed 9), initiated a CSC to start up the motors, went to take off slowly. Instead of taking off level like it usually does it was starting to lunge forward so I stopped the motors, powered off, powered back on and went through all the normal pre-flight again and it did the same thing when I tried to take off.
Does anyone have any information on why it would do this? I read something about how the GPS could be messed up, but that was someone who wasn't able to acquire satellites. My Phantom acquires satellites and acts completely normal in that regard.
Is this a case of having to re-calibrate the compass since it crashed? I obviously calibrated before my first flight (was extremely careful and drove out to a farm field with my son to make sure there would be no interference), but I have not re-calibrated since the small crash because I have drive a ways to get to a good area.
Like I said, the crash was from less than 5 feet and there aren't even any real scratches anywhere. I did notice a scuff on the compass metal though. I panicked as the battery was at 20 percent and the Phantom was starting to drop in altitude so I was trying to fly it to a good landing spot and that's when it all went south for me.
If anyone could shed some light on what they think it might be, things to try or things to look for it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading.
btothemalm
