Hello
Writing this topic because I feel desperate. Please be patient with me and try to read the whole thing. See, I got this phantom 2 as a replacement for my first phantom 2 that I lost in a fly away (including H3-3D gimbal and gopro). So I bought this one with a H3-3D gimbal too and another gopro hero 3+black. Mentioning all this for you to see I have invested a lot already on this and I am feeling really frustrated.
In my first phantom I never had a problem. I was able to fly it perfectly, completely responsive. But since I got this, it has been problematic. See, I bought it in USA, and started flying it in Florida. The only issues I had there is that I never felt this phantom as stable as the first one I had, but it was not a problem, maybe it was because I wasn't too confident since I lost my first one. Ok. Then I traveled to my country, Colombia. I live in Bogota. And since then I have not been able to to a good flight.
First thing I have noticed is that it needs a battery fully charged to be able to take off. If I do it with a battery lets say, at 70% capacity, sometimes it takes off, sometimes it just hover 3ft and goes down.
I have been able to fly it almost fine for a couple of times, but after a few minutes it becomes unstable and starts dropping. Sometimes I have been able to recover it with full throttle but most of the times I have crashed. This week, I broke the gimbal, and scratched my gopro lens, so again, more than $500 in damages.
I always calibrate compass, I always wait for GPS fix, I have done IMU basic and advanced calibration, I have tried both Phantom and Naza mode, I have tried different gain settings, and always the same.
After I broke my gimbal, I downgraded to firmware 1.8 and then upgraded to 3.04 again. The next day I tried to fly it without any load. It was a good flight. Then I added the GPS tracker, and was a good flight as well.
Yesterday I decided to put the broken gimbal and my gopro to check if the load could affect it, . It did, but it crashed again, and was there when I scratched the lens.
[youtube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diHofapPWi0[/youtube]
Video looks unstable most of the time because gimbal is not working anymore.
Time: 1:58, it starts going crazy, dropping, but I was able to recover it.
4:03, I was descending and I loose control again. (I never descend straight but moving forward to avoid unstability).It crashes and bounces.
6:06 Another flight attempt. 6:20 Look how hard it takes off. 7:02 lost control again and it crashes.
7:34 I change battery to a fully charged one. Recalibrated compass. Kind of good flight until 11:02 when it goes completely crazy and crashes.
I have checked with other pilots, and they are able to fly it here in Bogota. I have tries in different areas. Don't understand what could it be. I am using original DJI propellers. In fact I have broken so far at least 15 to 20 propellers and that is also taking good money
Please help me, I don't know what to do. I am desperate. I just want to be able to fly my phantom.
I just upgraded to 3.06. I was in 3.04. And will let you know the results.
MainController 3.06
GPS 6.0.1.4
Receiver-2.4G 1.0.0.18
P330CB 1.0.1.32
Battery 2.0.0.0
Writing this topic because I feel desperate. Please be patient with me and try to read the whole thing. See, I got this phantom 2 as a replacement for my first phantom 2 that I lost in a fly away (including H3-3D gimbal and gopro). So I bought this one with a H3-3D gimbal too and another gopro hero 3+black. Mentioning all this for you to see I have invested a lot already on this and I am feeling really frustrated.
In my first phantom I never had a problem. I was able to fly it perfectly, completely responsive. But since I got this, it has been problematic. See, I bought it in USA, and started flying it in Florida. The only issues I had there is that I never felt this phantom as stable as the first one I had, but it was not a problem, maybe it was because I wasn't too confident since I lost my first one. Ok. Then I traveled to my country, Colombia. I live in Bogota. And since then I have not been able to to a good flight.
First thing I have noticed is that it needs a battery fully charged to be able to take off. If I do it with a battery lets say, at 70% capacity, sometimes it takes off, sometimes it just hover 3ft and goes down.
I have been able to fly it almost fine for a couple of times, but after a few minutes it becomes unstable and starts dropping. Sometimes I have been able to recover it with full throttle but most of the times I have crashed. This week, I broke the gimbal, and scratched my gopro lens, so again, more than $500 in damages.
I always calibrate compass, I always wait for GPS fix, I have done IMU basic and advanced calibration, I have tried both Phantom and Naza mode, I have tried different gain settings, and always the same.
After I broke my gimbal, I downgraded to firmware 1.8 and then upgraded to 3.04 again. The next day I tried to fly it without any load. It was a good flight. Then I added the GPS tracker, and was a good flight as well.
Yesterday I decided to put the broken gimbal and my gopro to check if the load could affect it, . It did, but it crashed again, and was there when I scratched the lens.
[youtube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diHofapPWi0[/youtube]
Video looks unstable most of the time because gimbal is not working anymore.
Time: 1:58, it starts going crazy, dropping, but I was able to recover it.
4:03, I was descending and I loose control again. (I never descend straight but moving forward to avoid unstability).It crashes and bounces.
6:06 Another flight attempt. 6:20 Look how hard it takes off. 7:02 lost control again and it crashes.
7:34 I change battery to a fully charged one. Recalibrated compass. Kind of good flight until 11:02 when it goes completely crazy and crashes.
I have checked with other pilots, and they are able to fly it here in Bogota. I have tries in different areas. Don't understand what could it be. I am using original DJI propellers. In fact I have broken so far at least 15 to 20 propellers and that is also taking good money
Please help me, I don't know what to do. I am desperate. I just want to be able to fly my phantom.
I just upgraded to 3.06. I was in 3.04. And will let you know the results.
MainController 3.06
GPS 6.0.1.4
Receiver-2.4G 1.0.0.18
P330CB 1.0.1.32
Battery 2.0.0.0