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Well, after owning my Phantom 2 Vision Plus v3.0 (with ESC 2.0) for a little over 2 months, She fell out of the air today. With nearly 40-50 flights across 3 batteries, the Phantom just dropped from the sky.
First flight of the afternoon, everything was going just fine as usual. I had already flown 2 or 3 times this morning with no problem. I went outside after lunch and flew for a few minutes and all of a sudden I see it just falling towards earth. No, I did not mistakenly initiate a CSC.
I lost FPV on my screen. However, I regained a connection as I ran down the street to start my search. I found it in a backyard with the help of Find My Phantom. The last think I remember seeing on the screen before it froze was the bird flying with the props visible at the top. It wasn't far away from me so I was flying via LOS visual.
Camera and Gimbal are busted up. The housing/shell has damage. One motor is packed with this semi-moist dirt. One prop missing. Another cracked in half. battery butt has some cosmetic damage but seems to still funciton fine. The phantom was still on when I found it and the on-battery indicators still show. 3 solids and 1 flashing.
I was video recording. However, the file was not ended properly. So, it will not play on the computer. I put it back in the phantom and booted up the phantom again but that doesn't seem to fix the file this time so it can be read.
Maybe I can send the file to someone and they can load it on their phantom and see if they can get it to close out.
Also, I notice that their was some heavy solar activity today. I wonder if that could have caused the shutdown in air.
Anyway, I purchased at Adorama and they said DJI handles ally warranty situations and they don't exchange even under warranty. I contacted DJI (USA) and got an RMA. I guess she will head to the west coast on tomorrow.
Not a good feeling. Of all flights not to run my screen video capture app before the flight. I guess I had gotten too comfortable in the way my Phantom performs.
On top of that, I just got my tracking number for my Flytrex on yesterday.
Grand Opening... Grand Closing!
First flight of the afternoon, everything was going just fine as usual. I had already flown 2 or 3 times this morning with no problem. I went outside after lunch and flew for a few minutes and all of a sudden I see it just falling towards earth. No, I did not mistakenly initiate a CSC.
I lost FPV on my screen. However, I regained a connection as I ran down the street to start my search. I found it in a backyard with the help of Find My Phantom. The last think I remember seeing on the screen before it froze was the bird flying with the props visible at the top. It wasn't far away from me so I was flying via LOS visual.
Camera and Gimbal are busted up. The housing/shell has damage. One motor is packed with this semi-moist dirt. One prop missing. Another cracked in half. battery butt has some cosmetic damage but seems to still funciton fine. The phantom was still on when I found it and the on-battery indicators still show. 3 solids and 1 flashing.
I was video recording. However, the file was not ended properly. So, it will not play on the computer. I put it back in the phantom and booted up the phantom again but that doesn't seem to fix the file this time so it can be read.
Maybe I can send the file to someone and they can load it on their phantom and see if they can get it to close out.
Also, I notice that their was some heavy solar activity today. I wonder if that could have caused the shutdown in air.
Anyway, I purchased at Adorama and they said DJI handles ally warranty situations and they don't exchange even under warranty. I contacted DJI (USA) and got an RMA. I guess she will head to the west coast on tomorrow.
Not a good feeling. Of all flights not to run my screen video capture app before the flight. I guess I had gotten too comfortable in the way my Phantom performs.
On top of that, I just got my tracking number for my Flytrex on yesterday.
Grand Opening... Grand Closing!