Just had my first (and hopefully last) flyaway…
Be interested to hear what you guys think if my assessment of the cause is plausible. video as well to support.
Headed down to the Thames this morning at 6am as with zero winds (5mph) and bright sun thought ideal conditions.
Go through normal procedure, full GPS lock, launch and fly no problem. Running all the latest firmware etc. etc. After about 11 minutes in all fine.Good flight.
So start to bring the Phantom back in. As I’m doing this there’s a large commercial ship passing along the river.
I figure it was maybe 600m away (see pic)
so as I bring it in to me it doesn’t respond and just starts to wander off, you can see from the video this is the activity of it from when it starts to not take the input from the control. It sporadically lets me get control then wanders off again
I’m using a Futaba 14sg fully charged.
I’m in GPS mode the whole time , battery about 35%. You can see I almost get the chance to grab it then it just gets pushed away from me. I should have switched to Atti but i was just too worried about all the water (there’s a moat you can’t see) so I ended up ditching it in the brambles to not take any chances (broken prop only damage), plugged in post crash and all okay , no calibration needed.
My theory - some interference from the passing ship ???? Radar possibly affecting the GPS ?? or TX ? Everything was fine up until the ship came past and it definitely seemed as it got closer the more the marked effect on the loss of control…Does that sound / look plausible ?
http://youtu.be/RLZF48gk820
Be interested to hear what you guys think if my assessment of the cause is plausible. video as well to support.
Headed down to the Thames this morning at 6am as with zero winds (5mph) and bright sun thought ideal conditions.
Go through normal procedure, full GPS lock, launch and fly no problem. Running all the latest firmware etc. etc. After about 11 minutes in all fine.Good flight.
So start to bring the Phantom back in. As I’m doing this there’s a large commercial ship passing along the river.
I figure it was maybe 600m away (see pic)
so as I bring it in to me it doesn’t respond and just starts to wander off, you can see from the video this is the activity of it from when it starts to not take the input from the control. It sporadically lets me get control then wanders off again
I’m using a Futaba 14sg fully charged.
I’m in GPS mode the whole time , battery about 35%. You can see I almost get the chance to grab it then it just gets pushed away from me. I should have switched to Atti but i was just too worried about all the water (there’s a moat you can’t see) so I ended up ditching it in the brambles to not take any chances (broken prop only damage), plugged in post crash and all okay , no calibration needed.
My theory - some interference from the passing ship ???? Radar possibly affecting the GPS ?? or TX ? Everything was fine up until the ship came past and it definitely seemed as it got closer the more the marked effect on the loss of control…Does that sound / look plausible ?
http://youtu.be/RLZF48gk820