I’ve been using phantom for a while and bought 2nd phantom for my long vacation. On my vacation, it flew well with Phantom + Zenmuse + Gopro hero3 black + kumbacam FPV kit. then one time in a hurry, I probably did not let the phantom capture the home location. and started flying from the shore of a lake towards the lake. no problem there. then I flew the phantom in other direction over the ground where it went out of range and started coming back to the position and I though it would land on the shore butbut it went little further into the lake ( 10 meters from the lake shore). As it started descending into the lake we almost gave up the hope (lake was deep and had alligators). As it touched the water I thought of trying switching off and on the RC and after few attempts, i had the control back and i got it back on the ground ( i was so nervous+happy i got it stuck in the tree but i got it back in working condition anyway).
Like this incident wasn’t enough. The next day, I was flying it on a beach without the FPV kit( no charged batteries) and thought of capturing my dad’s para-sailing with phantom. Again, it went well. In overconfidence and blinding relying on fail-safe. I thought capturing water-scooter ride.the phantom went further away into the sea but i still could see it clearly but the heading wasnt visible. So i did not know where was the forward direction. I tried switching to HL in hopes that it will make RC’s backward , phantoms backward but that didnt seem to work. So to be safe I increased the height (around 150 ft from sea level..pun intended) and switched off the RC to get it back to the place i started phantom ( i gave it enough time to capture home location this time). but it never came back and I never lost the sight of it. There are two problems here. 1. home location did not work. 2. fail safe did not work. Has anyone experienced this before? Should I contact DJI regarding this? Thanks.
Like this incident wasn’t enough. The next day, I was flying it on a beach without the FPV kit( no charged batteries) and thought of capturing my dad’s para-sailing with phantom. Again, it went well. In overconfidence and blinding relying on fail-safe. I thought capturing water-scooter ride.the phantom went further away into the sea but i still could see it clearly but the heading wasnt visible. So i did not know where was the forward direction. I tried switching to HL in hopes that it will make RC’s backward , phantoms backward but that didnt seem to work. So to be safe I increased the height (around 150 ft from sea level..pun intended) and switched off the RC to get it back to the place i started phantom ( i gave it enough time to capture home location this time). but it never came back and I never lost the sight of it. There are two problems here. 1. home location did not work. 2. fail safe did not work. Has anyone experienced this before? Should I contact DJI regarding this? Thanks.