My son is heading back to school this weekend so we took advantage of a reasonably sunny and warm enough day to go shoot some outdoor hoops at the elementary school around the corner from us.
I thought I would take the phantom 4, float it up a little bit, 30' maybe and just let it hover and film us a bit. No big deal.
So i turn it and the controller on, same process as always. Go to do the circle dance as it is a new place for me to fly from and while I am rotating the rotors start up! I was holding the controller, not sure why, I usually place it on the ground next to me when performing the calibration. Perhaps I accidentally pushed on the throttle?
So I shut it down and placed it on the ground to figure it all out.
While on the ground and me messing in the menu, the rotors start up again , on their own, this time I'm sure I did not engage anything.
So I shut it down and took props off and packed it up for the day.
Now, looking in DJI go, I see in the flight log it has two errors:
- Satellite positioning off, fly with caution
- The aircraft is in a warning zone (class D), fly with caution here. (nearby smaller airport, with automated authorization available)
So, what steps to find out what happened, why the props/rotors engaged at least once, possibly twice without me doing anything.
Phantom has never performed in odd way for me previously, have owned for 3 years now.
Thanks in advance,
Steve
I thought I would take the phantom 4, float it up a little bit, 30' maybe and just let it hover and film us a bit. No big deal.
So i turn it and the controller on, same process as always. Go to do the circle dance as it is a new place for me to fly from and while I am rotating the rotors start up! I was holding the controller, not sure why, I usually place it on the ground next to me when performing the calibration. Perhaps I accidentally pushed on the throttle?
So I shut it down and placed it on the ground to figure it all out.
While on the ground and me messing in the menu, the rotors start up again , on their own, this time I'm sure I did not engage anything.
So I shut it down and took props off and packed it up for the day.
Now, looking in DJI go, I see in the flight log it has two errors:
- Satellite positioning off, fly with caution
- The aircraft is in a warning zone (class D), fly with caution here. (nearby smaller airport, with automated authorization available)
So, what steps to find out what happened, why the props/rotors engaged at least once, possibly twice without me doing anything.
Phantom has never performed in odd way for me previously, have owned for 3 years now.
Thanks in advance,
Steve