Recent content by captainrick

Re: Lesson learned!...I think I know what happened There is a chance I left the battery in the phantom and turned off the transmitter as I walked into the house. That would explain it taking off ...losing communication and going up to return to home. Still learning but loving the phantom!!!

Just north of you in Bryan County--- Richmond Hill

Thanks for your inputs... but that was what was so strange! The quad props were fully shutdown....I then placed the controller beside it and walked in my front door. If it had started ascending again... I would have heard it even with my back to it as I walked. I was in a residential...

I just received my phantom last week and after going over all the videos for pre-flight I went out to test it in my front yard. Since I am in a community and lots of trees, I decided to just go up move very little, and come back down. I had calibrated the GPS (thank goodness!) and it hovered no...