Okay,
so I went flying today (Vision + V3.0 ESC v2.1) with a battery that I didn't much trust, but never had a problem with. So I shoot up 600ft in a deep mountain valley over some trees and go out about 1900ft. I reached my destination and began to roll backwards towards my location, when I hear the phantom make a weird noise then silence. Looking at the fpv, one second its flying perfect, next second screen goes immediately black and silence. Having a marco-polo I was able to hike 1500ft out through stomach deep snow and find everything (Right on Course), but I noticed something really weird. All the props were in perfect condition about 100ft or so away from where everything else was. If I didn't know any better I'd swear the motors reversed and spit all the props off, and this was only 2:30 into flight. Recovered all but last 10 sec of video and data tracker (Vision Utility+) and all show me at 600ft before logging/video stops while returning to home. So one second I'm 600ft up, 10 seconds later I'm crashed into ground. I'm kinda shocked, and pissed at the same time, especially since my gimbal it bent to hell. Took Phantom apart and don't see anything that looks disconnected, but I'm looking at $300 in parts to get back into the air, not including the most expensive part (Camera / Gimbal), and whatever piece of mind I actually had in its reliability.
Sad, Sad Day
so I went flying today (Vision + V3.0 ESC v2.1) with a battery that I didn't much trust, but never had a problem with. So I shoot up 600ft in a deep mountain valley over some trees and go out about 1900ft. I reached my destination and began to roll backwards towards my location, when I hear the phantom make a weird noise then silence. Looking at the fpv, one second its flying perfect, next second screen goes immediately black and silence. Having a marco-polo I was able to hike 1500ft out through stomach deep snow and find everything (Right on Course), but I noticed something really weird. All the props were in perfect condition about 100ft or so away from where everything else was. If I didn't know any better I'd swear the motors reversed and spit all the props off, and this was only 2:30 into flight. Recovered all but last 10 sec of video and data tracker (Vision Utility+) and all show me at 600ft before logging/video stops while returning to home. So one second I'm 600ft up, 10 seconds later I'm crashed into ground. I'm kinda shocked, and pissed at the same time, especially since my gimbal it bent to hell. Took Phantom apart and don't see anything that looks disconnected, but I'm looking at $300 in parts to get back into the air, not including the most expensive part (Camera / Gimbal), and whatever piece of mind I actually had in its reliability.
Sad, Sad Day