- Joined
- Sep 23, 2014
- Messages
- 86
- Reaction score
- 20
Lost my uav to a nasty accident. Took up, Semi breezy. Not overly so I thought. Bird started straying from fixed position trying to find a gps goldilocks spot, I panicked and hit the assent button thinking that it would start climbing instead of straying trying to sort out some gps issues it was having. And the command I gave caused it to accelerate incredibly fast in a horizontal direction. Overshot whatever gps position it was aiming for and never regained stability, Turned all that energy into going horizontal surely thought neighbors window was hit. Calmly walked back 2 houses down. Ready to blame kids and commit to damages. Folks were't home. It hit the trunk of a tree. Battery out and ripped camera off, squashed a 2.4 aftermarket antenna. (. I picked up my victim and draped jacket over it and walked back home. Could have been much worse. (Should have immedietly turned off gps by bringing left button to middle position and landing). This is a perfect time to upgrade to phantom vision 2 +. No tears ,the drone gave me many hours of happy time.
It still flies but acts like it was on non gps mode (strays heavily). My buddy wants the brushless motors
It still flies but acts like it was on non gps mode (strays heavily). My buddy wants the brushless motors