Hey everyone!
Unfortunately, I crashed my Phantom 3 Advanced. I've only flown it a handful of times. Well, it wasn't really me, but my friend. I was really not thinking and kindof out of it for some reason, and I let him fly it before me and before I told him a few basic things. Thankfully, I am very lucky that the damage wasn't significant at all. One of the arms of the shell I need to fix by taking out a screw and putting it back in, but that's really it. I also need to tighten that stupid screw on the yaw arm of the gimbal. I flew it four days ago and it flew pretty well. There was a part during that flight where it rolled hard to the left, but it may have been a gust of wind or something hitting it. It was fine after that.
I don't know what went wrong. It went completely out of control. I know I was a stupid drone operator today. I admit: I didn't check the MOD values before I took off. I checked the weather, the KP Index, the number of Sats locked, and everything possible on the aircraft. That doesn't excuse the fact I let my friend fly it before me.
Looking at the footage, could it have been him flying it right over the controller? I think he just got carried away. Once I saw it freaking out, I told him to let go and not touch anything on the controller. It kept going, and a couple seconds later the video cut out. It finally crashed into the grass. The cable from the VPS sensor area to the gimbal came unplugged, so I reconnected that. Could part of the problem be not flying with the anti-drop pins? Long story, but I had to order the rubber anti-vibration things, and while researching about that, I found some people like to use zip-ties instead of the pins. So, I tried that, and it seems fine! I did change them since my last flight, however, by making them rectangles with 90 degree angles rather than curved. I started the Phantom up after that and got it a few feet in the air, which went well, but I didn't want to do much more before figuring out what went wrong.
I did just update the DJI App for Android to version 2.8.1 this morning. I don't know why I didn't wait for an assessment from other users, but I was just excited to go fly the drone that afternoon.
Can anybody help me out here by telling me what happened? Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you!
DJI App:
Footage:
Here's the data from PhantomHelp's Log Viewer: Phantom Log Viewer - PhantomHelp.com
Here's the .DAT file: FLY236.DAT
Also attached is the flight record.
Unfortunately, I crashed my Phantom 3 Advanced. I've only flown it a handful of times. Well, it wasn't really me, but my friend. I was really not thinking and kindof out of it for some reason, and I let him fly it before me and before I told him a few basic things. Thankfully, I am very lucky that the damage wasn't significant at all. One of the arms of the shell I need to fix by taking out a screw and putting it back in, but that's really it. I also need to tighten that stupid screw on the yaw arm of the gimbal. I flew it four days ago and it flew pretty well. There was a part during that flight where it rolled hard to the left, but it may have been a gust of wind or something hitting it. It was fine after that.
I don't know what went wrong. It went completely out of control. I know I was a stupid drone operator today. I admit: I didn't check the MOD values before I took off. I checked the weather, the KP Index, the number of Sats locked, and everything possible on the aircraft. That doesn't excuse the fact I let my friend fly it before me.
Looking at the footage, could it have been him flying it right over the controller? I think he just got carried away. Once I saw it freaking out, I told him to let go and not touch anything on the controller. It kept going, and a couple seconds later the video cut out. It finally crashed into the grass. The cable from the VPS sensor area to the gimbal came unplugged, so I reconnected that. Could part of the problem be not flying with the anti-drop pins? Long story, but I had to order the rubber anti-vibration things, and while researching about that, I found some people like to use zip-ties instead of the pins. So, I tried that, and it seems fine! I did change them since my last flight, however, by making them rectangles with 90 degree angles rather than curved. I started the Phantom up after that and got it a few feet in the air, which went well, but I didn't want to do much more before figuring out what went wrong.
I did just update the DJI App for Android to version 2.8.1 this morning. I don't know why I didn't wait for an assessment from other users, but I was just excited to go fly the drone that afternoon.
Can anybody help me out here by telling me what happened? Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you!
DJI App:
Footage:
Here's the data from PhantomHelp's Log Viewer: Phantom Log Viewer - PhantomHelp.com
Here's the .DAT file: FLY236.DAT
Also attached is the flight record.
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