Recent content by easternmike

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    Anti flyaway technique.

    Failsafe, DOES in fact orientate itself turning itself nose forward home location.
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    DJI Phantom FC40 Forum

    I have narrowed down a few things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAJVUIzPwB4 Does not go up and down in manual mode. In fail safe it falls fast about 50 ft and them climbs towards its home landing, eventually placing itself over home but still going up and down. I flip to manual mode in...
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    DJI Phantom FC40 Forum

    Issue still exist, I can not land unless is use manual mode (activated in NAZA) this is very difficult yet makes it possible, The craft fly properly but at some point just starts going up and down by 50-100 ft. or so and has to be inched back towards home landing. HELP!! ON hponh now holding...
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    Anti flyaway technique.

    I have become quite skilled and not so thrilled with purposely loosing site of my bird and watching it fly home. Things that allowed (even me) to keep such a cool toy. :arrow: Activate switch X2 to be (safemode on bottom flip) :arrow: Phantom does 2 (two) automatic Home Locks and flashes...
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    DJI Phantom FC40 Forum

    Does the NAZA assistant show your controller going into Atti?
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    DJI Phantom FC40 Forum

    It was also doing this while in FailSafe, (no transmission). I think you are spot on with the compass connection. I did discover one of the pins quite loose going to the GPS. Also noticed prior to taking apart the shell and hooking up to NAZA Assistant, that the IMU (NAZA) was going from...
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    DJI Phantom FC40 Forum

    This turns out to be a lose wire (single pin) loose from connector. The wire from compass to GPS. At least I hope that was the cause, possibly a battery failure (new battery) even though I was not able to isolate it to that better due to not having paid attention.
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    DJI Phantom FC40 Forum

    Seems I have a unique issue happening here... My FC40 Stock has been flew many hours and without issue. Suddenly, when near out of range from controller but still within site (barely) I noticed it wildly going up and down, up and down, say 100ft up/down. Out of instinct I flipped to...