Hello everyone, this is my first post to PP but I have lurked and gotten a lot of great info.
So Today I had my PV+ in the air. The battery was getting low (around one minute) I was maybe 100 feet from landing. The conditions were a bit windy. As I descended the PV+ started to oscillate side to side quite significantly. I seem to have no control over it. It crashed into the grass pretty hard but a test flight later with a new battery showed there to be no problems as far as i can tell. My question is how did this happen? I had 7 sats. I was landing it myself, but the closer it got to the ground the more out of control it got. As far as I can remember, I did not let go of the altitude stick on the left. Maybe I should have just let go of the sticks and let it stabilize?
Any info would be appreciated
Richard
So Today I had my PV+ in the air. The battery was getting low (around one minute) I was maybe 100 feet from landing. The conditions were a bit windy. As I descended the PV+ started to oscillate side to side quite significantly. I seem to have no control over it. It crashed into the grass pretty hard but a test flight later with a new battery showed there to be no problems as far as i can tell. My question is how did this happen? I had 7 sats. I was landing it myself, but the closer it got to the ground the more out of control it got. As far as I can remember, I did not let go of the altitude stick on the left. Maybe I should have just let go of the sticks and let it stabilize?
Any info would be appreciated
Richard