I am new to this forum so please let me know if this is posted in the wrong place or is just not appropriate.
I have been flying my DJI Phantom Pro 3 for like 2 years and mostly without incident. I would consider myself an experienced but not expert pilot. I have crashed a couple of times but nothing like this.
The drone took off as normally but i heard a strange vibration / noise as it left the ground. I commented to my friend on this but continued to fly. Around 45 seconds later, as I was looking at the camera on my phone and lining up my shot the drone went crazy and just started tumbling out of the sky. At the time I heard the strange noise / vibration again, it tumbled and flipped, hit a wire on the way down and hit the ground.
I had aftermarket carbon fiber props on the drone at the time. I have flown with these 10-15 times without incident. They are much stiffer than the stock props but have flown just fine.
My theory is that a prop was cracked on take-off, then failed in the air, but I have no way to prove this. Nobody saw a piece fall off the drone before losing control but 2 props were cracked / damage on crash: which might have happened when they hit the ground or when they hit the wire. Unfortunately I was not recording when the incident happened.
I have a few "speed error" and "compass errors" in the logs but I don't know exactly what this means.
Any help analyzing the log would be greatly appreciated! I bought a new frame and new props to rebuild it but want to make sure the fault was not motors or electronics or battery before flying again.
Thanks!
I have been flying my DJI Phantom Pro 3 for like 2 years and mostly without incident. I would consider myself an experienced but not expert pilot. I have crashed a couple of times but nothing like this.
The drone took off as normally but i heard a strange vibration / noise as it left the ground. I commented to my friend on this but continued to fly. Around 45 seconds later, as I was looking at the camera on my phone and lining up my shot the drone went crazy and just started tumbling out of the sky. At the time I heard the strange noise / vibration again, it tumbled and flipped, hit a wire on the way down and hit the ground.
I had aftermarket carbon fiber props on the drone at the time. I have flown with these 10-15 times without incident. They are much stiffer than the stock props but have flown just fine.
My theory is that a prop was cracked on take-off, then failed in the air, but I have no way to prove this. Nobody saw a piece fall off the drone before losing control but 2 props were cracked / damage on crash: which might have happened when they hit the ground or when they hit the wire. Unfortunately I was not recording when the incident happened.
I have a few "speed error" and "compass errors" in the logs but I don't know exactly what this means.
Any help analyzing the log would be greatly appreciated! I bought a new frame and new props to rebuild it but want to make sure the fault was not motors or electronics or battery before flying again.
Thanks!