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Ok first thing is first....im an idiot and forgot to press play on my go pro before the flight UGHHH. this is my first day and second flight with the phantom.
So basically the first flight went great, compass calibrated, waited until i got 6+ sat with green light, flew for about 8 minutes no problems.
My second flight I got a bit ballsy and took her up pretty high like 300 feet at least. I wasn't sure about my time in the air but I had a brand new fully charged battery. i was about 25 feet in the air, and because of the positioning it was a bit hard to see the LEDs...and because of the crash i was more worried about the unit than remembering what exactly was blinking. basically i was flying and descending with right stick full bottom left. I saw what i thought was green and some red lights once or twice so i stopped it and let it level, saw a blinking green consistently, flew a few feet high than did it again.
This time the chopper simply died! i was expecting a controlled landing because i knew it was getting close to battery time, and because this was flight number 2 i wanted to test it out. basically it fell 25 feet as if it was a $50 chopper where the battery just died. battery wasn't D/C because after the landing it still had LED's. cant tell you what they were as the Go Pro cracked the LCD screen i was more focused on that. and a bit surprised the underwater case didnt save it....from only a 25ft drop.
Any ideas what went wrong? I im kinda concerned!
So basically the first flight went great, compass calibrated, waited until i got 6+ sat with green light, flew for about 8 minutes no problems.
My second flight I got a bit ballsy and took her up pretty high like 300 feet at least. I wasn't sure about my time in the air but I had a brand new fully charged battery. i was about 25 feet in the air, and because of the positioning it was a bit hard to see the LEDs...and because of the crash i was more worried about the unit than remembering what exactly was blinking. basically i was flying and descending with right stick full bottom left. I saw what i thought was green and some red lights once or twice so i stopped it and let it level, saw a blinking green consistently, flew a few feet high than did it again.
This time the chopper simply died! i was expecting a controlled landing because i knew it was getting close to battery time, and because this was flight number 2 i wanted to test it out. basically it fell 25 feet as if it was a $50 chopper where the battery just died. battery wasn't D/C because after the landing it still had LED's. cant tell you what they were as the Go Pro cracked the LCD screen i was more focused on that. and a bit surprised the underwater case didnt save it....from only a 25ft drop.
Any ideas what went wrong? I im kinda concerned!