Hello all!
I recently received a Phantom 1 as a gift and have enjoyed many problem free flights. Unfortunately, this evening I experienced a catastrophic problem that destroyed my Phantom and would like your opionions as to what may have gone wrong. I was flying on a fresh battery in good conditions, except for a bit of fog. The phantom was several hundred feet up and away from me when it began to behave irratically, including a sudden descent. The craft seemed to stabalize momentarily so I decided to bring her back in for a landing. Unfortunately, as I started to bring the Phantom back in, it again became erratic, except this time it fell like a rock from several hundred feet onto the concrete below. When I made it to the craft it had lost 2 props and had an arm bent from impact. The craft was beeping. Attaching it to the NAZAM software offered no insight, as the software did not recognize the Phantom.
Any ideas? Could the fog (moisutre) have been an issue somehow? Thanks for any feedback.
Andy
I recently received a Phantom 1 as a gift and have enjoyed many problem free flights. Unfortunately, this evening I experienced a catastrophic problem that destroyed my Phantom and would like your opionions as to what may have gone wrong. I was flying on a fresh battery in good conditions, except for a bit of fog. The phantom was several hundred feet up and away from me when it began to behave irratically, including a sudden descent. The craft seemed to stabalize momentarily so I decided to bring her back in for a landing. Unfortunately, as I started to bring the Phantom back in, it again became erratic, except this time it fell like a rock from several hundred feet onto the concrete below. When I made it to the craft it had lost 2 props and had an arm bent from impact. The craft was beeping. Attaching it to the NAZAM software offered no insight, as the software did not recognize the Phantom.
Any ideas? Could the fog (moisutre) have been an issue somehow? Thanks for any feedback.
Andy