Welp, I've read tons of horror stories in my time here about bad or potentially bad ESC's. I even made comment some time back that I was just going to fly, because the confusion about which models had good, which models had bad was just a cluster. I was going to just keep flying.
I've got a P2+ v3 and have at least 100 flights under my belt. The Flytrex says I have 60 logged.
So today I volunteer to help cover a football camp for kids. I'm flying well above the field, getting all the groups as they are going through their exercises. Never directly above them but at an angle where I can create a promotional video later. I get five flights under my belt just fine.
A group photo of all 100+ participants was next. I land, change batteries, get GPS verification and take off. The craft takes off fine, climbs to +/- 20 feet AGL. It takes a definite dip on one side (one prop). The craft attempts to right itself and half a second later dips again and doesn't regain itself. It crashes to the concrete.
I collect up the phantom, walk back to my box and start to triage. Three of the motors spin just fine. The fourth only shifts back and forth. The motor goes in both directions a few rotations and that's it. The body is all scuffed up. The main bracket behind the camera is bent. The camera works, but the bracket is bent maybe 10 degrees.
Needless to say, the craft is useless to me.
I am preparing a letter to DJI after this post to express my extreme discontent with this issue. This has been a known issue to those of us flying the craft, but yet nothing from DJI on it at all. Needless to say, i'm NOT a happy camper at all.
To add fuel to the fire, the SIM card in the Flytrex was apparently expired and I hadn't renewed it so that data is not available from their site. I'll try to extract it from the flytrex itself, if that is possible. The flight was too short to the point that I didn't have a chance to start video so I don't have that evidence either!
Argh!
I'll take pics and post what I find in my forensic exam of my craft. :-(
I've got a P2+ v3 and have at least 100 flights under my belt. The Flytrex says I have 60 logged.
So today I volunteer to help cover a football camp for kids. I'm flying well above the field, getting all the groups as they are going through their exercises. Never directly above them but at an angle where I can create a promotional video later. I get five flights under my belt just fine.
A group photo of all 100+ participants was next. I land, change batteries, get GPS verification and take off. The craft takes off fine, climbs to +/- 20 feet AGL. It takes a definite dip on one side (one prop). The craft attempts to right itself and half a second later dips again and doesn't regain itself. It crashes to the concrete.
I collect up the phantom, walk back to my box and start to triage. Three of the motors spin just fine. The fourth only shifts back and forth. The motor goes in both directions a few rotations and that's it. The body is all scuffed up. The main bracket behind the camera is bent. The camera works, but the bracket is bent maybe 10 degrees.
Needless to say, the craft is useless to me.
I am preparing a letter to DJI after this post to express my extreme discontent with this issue. This has been a known issue to those of us flying the craft, but yet nothing from DJI on it at all. Needless to say, i'm NOT a happy camper at all.
To add fuel to the fire, the SIM card in the Flytrex was apparently expired and I hadn't renewed it so that data is not available from their site. I'll try to extract it from the flytrex itself, if that is possible. The flight was too short to the point that I didn't have a chance to start video so I don't have that evidence either!
Argh!
I'll take pics and post what I find in my forensic exam of my craft. :-(