Hello everyone,
After nearly 5 months ownership and 85 (almost) flawless flights covering 14 hours and over 290 km, my Phantom 3 Advanced just fell 30m straight down out of the sky, only about 200 metres into its last fateful flight.
It appears I have been both incredibly lucky and unlucky on this. Only visible damage is one snapped blade and one completely ripped off camera (clean snap through the yaw arm ).
On switching the aircraft on, it reports gimbal, roll and yaw are critical errors and it won't go on to start-up and just beeps loudly with no lights. I have since removed the gimbal mount plate and unplugged the two multi-plugs from the aircraft. Now, it appears the aircraft doesn't begin any warm-up at all and just beeps loudly... there are no lights and this time, no discernible contact with the RC.
Now, quick question 1: is the Phantom 3 meant to be capable of flight without a camera? (I had always assumed it was.)
If so, then my aircraft has bigger problems than meets the eye and attempting a repair on this gimbal or buying a replacement will be futile.
Quick question 2 is to anyone from DJI here: what's likely to have gone wrong with my aircraft to cause it to fall out of the sky and what is my list of options for getting this back in the air quickly?
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