Kripdish
lvl.2
Flight distance : 120922 ft
United States
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I was sitting on my deck yesterday trying to work out the problems my Nexus7 and transmitter/wifi extender that I had expirienced earlier while flying(image freezing and lost signals). I was using the last of a battery when the alarm went off and I did not cancel the failsafe when prompted so the PV2+ began to asend to return to its starting point. Sadly I was under the Hickory tree that overhangs on that portion of the deck. The PV2+ dropped 8-10', crashed into the railing and down to the deck. It seemed ok, that is, everything intact. I got a fresh battery and took it out to an adjacent field to test it out. Powered up, linked to tablet, opened vision app, all seemed in order and hit the throtle stick. It immediately shot up in the air 100-125' and started heading east completely unresponsive to the controls. I shut off the transmitter trying to trigger the failsafe and it started coming back stopping above the homepoint, only to head east again. However it worked its way back and started a rapid decent over the homepoint, touched down bouncing back up 7' and headed east crashing into my house, breaking 3 of the props and ejecting the battery. I did not follows Gerry1124's warning and do the calibration dance prior to the test flight. Oh well, live and learn. Happy to say that today after installing new props and calibrating the compass before flight it flew and performed as if nothing had happed. Nexus was working with it well also, go figure.
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