This post is a positive 'thumbs' up to DJI! [emoji1417][emoji6]
A couple of weeks ago I flew my P3S above a local stream to try and get a cool video. I got a little too close to some birch trees and crashed into some branches. The darn bird fell straight down into a couple of feet of running stream water! I had to wade upstream for about 100 feet before I could find it. When I did, my heart sank- it was laying there on the bottom of the stream bed with its lights still blinking.
It had been under water for at least five minutes! I grabbed it, powered it down, and started shaking the water out of it. My wife was with me so we dried it off and jumped in the car to make the 10 minute trip home. I held it out the window while she drove and let the wind blow as much water out of it as I could. I blew it out even better with a small blower when we got home and then let it dry in the sun.
So approximately two hours after the 'swim' I tried turning it on and NOTHING.. no video, no RC connect… Nothing!
Well, needless to say I was bummed out. I had a busy time at work so two weeks later (today) I tried powering it up again.. lo and behold, EVERYTHING worked fine.. Used the same battery that was in the creek and even the camera takes pictures and video! Flying like SUPERBIRD! [emoji4]
I got off easy this time and consider it a huge lesson.. only two broken propellers and one broken prop guard!
I have to give DJI big kudos on this Phantom 3 Standard!
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A couple of weeks ago I flew my P3S above a local stream to try and get a cool video. I got a little too close to some birch trees and crashed into some branches. The darn bird fell straight down into a couple of feet of running stream water! I had to wade upstream for about 100 feet before I could find it. When I did, my heart sank- it was laying there on the bottom of the stream bed with its lights still blinking.
It had been under water for at least five minutes! I grabbed it, powered it down, and started shaking the water out of it. My wife was with me so we dried it off and jumped in the car to make the 10 minute trip home. I held it out the window while she drove and let the wind blow as much water out of it as I could. I blew it out even better with a small blower when we got home and then let it dry in the sun.
So approximately two hours after the 'swim' I tried turning it on and NOTHING.. no video, no RC connect… Nothing!
Well, needless to say I was bummed out. I had a busy time at work so two weeks later (today) I tried powering it up again.. lo and behold, EVERYTHING worked fine.. Used the same battery that was in the creek and even the camera takes pictures and video! Flying like SUPERBIRD! [emoji4]
I got off easy this time and consider it a huge lesson.. only two broken propellers and one broken prop guard!
I have to give DJI big kudos on this Phantom 3 Standard!
Sent from my iPhone using PhantomPilots