I have some of those hairline stress cracks. Not sure if that has anything to with this but I doubt it. I had already called DJI and told them about the cracks, which the support rep insisted was cosmetic and does not effect flight. I was also having a problem artifacts/ripples in my videos, which I shoot in 1080P. So, getting pushback on the cracks I filled out a ticket online.
The shipping tag for me to send the P3Pro in showed up in my email this morning. I thought I'd take a quick flight at 4K to see if I still had video problems. I flew up into a grassy field and was hovering next to an old grain silo since there's a lot of graffiti in it and would be a decent test of the camera detail and anonalies. 2:57 into the flight my video feed tilted to 90 degrees, then went black, then I got a compass error ... and that was that. According to HealthyDrones I was 143 feet higher than my takeoff point. I estimate the hill I was over to be 20 feet higher than that takeoff point, making the drop about 120 feet into grass and damp dirt.
I went up into the field and retrieved the drone. I've seem a few Youtube videos wherein drones have crashed and magically, they fly again! Yeah, this one may fly again as is but it's not going to shoot any video for a while. Three props are damaged and one disappeared altogether. I'm guessing it spun off during flight, which seems to defy physics, based on the direction of rotation--unless the rotor stopped abruptly, in which case it probably landed somewhere in the next county, Newton's Third Law and all.
I tried calling DJI 20 minutes before their posted support-closing time and got a recording saying they are experiencing technical difficulties so they aren't answering the phones. My phones always go down they day before a long weekend. Don't yours?
The shipping tag for me to send the P3Pro in showed up in my email this morning. I thought I'd take a quick flight at 4K to see if I still had video problems. I flew up into a grassy field and was hovering next to an old grain silo since there's a lot of graffiti in it and would be a decent test of the camera detail and anonalies. 2:57 into the flight my video feed tilted to 90 degrees, then went black, then I got a compass error ... and that was that. According to HealthyDrones I was 143 feet higher than my takeoff point. I estimate the hill I was over to be 20 feet higher than that takeoff point, making the drop about 120 feet into grass and damp dirt.
I went up into the field and retrieved the drone. I've seem a few Youtube videos wherein drones have crashed and magically, they fly again! Yeah, this one may fly again as is but it's not going to shoot any video for a while. Three props are damaged and one disappeared altogether. I'm guessing it spun off during flight, which seems to defy physics, based on the direction of rotation--unless the rotor stopped abruptly, in which case it probably landed somewhere in the next county, Newton's Third Law and all.
I tried calling DJI 20 minutes before their posted support-closing time and got a recording saying they are experiencing technical difficulties so they aren't answering the phones. My phones always go down they day before a long weekend. Don't yours?
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