I push my phantom to the limits, so you dont have to!



Hope you enjoy all

I enjoy flying into the wind on Sport mode until I have about 30% battery.  Then I switch to A mode and let it drift back home with my hands off the controls.  Not sure how accurate of a wind meter this makes, but I have seen 30+ mph at times.

I went to a point near my home I want to video. I want to fly into a narrow but steep canyon to near bottom then film as I climb up and clear the ravine and can see a school.

Today at launch the drone moved backwards 5 meters and if I did not input forward movement would have kept going.  
I decided that the wind in the ravine could be much faster so decided not to test my drone. It may have handled the wind quite well.
I have only been flying it 2 weeks so no need to go beyond my own limitations even if the drone can fly well.
Know your limits.

Try flying with the right side of your drone into the wind. My gimbal flips(not tilt) in p mode.
Let me know if yours handles it. They say the gimbal on the right is weaker than the left.
heres a clip of my drone showing the uncomfy situation.

Armando AM Posted at 2017-2-9 06:51
Try flying with the right side of your drone into the wind. My gimbal flips(not tilt) in p mode.
Let me know if yours handles it. They say the gimbal on the right is weaker than the left.
heres a clip of my drone showing the uncomfy situation.

No disputing your footage for sure. Good job. That is strange for sure. Good luck with that one.

Armando AM Posted at 2017-2-9 06:51
Try flying with the right side of your drone into the wind. My gimbal flips(not tilt) in p mode.
Let me know if yours handles it. They say the gimbal on the right is weaker than the left.
heres a clip of my drone showing the uncomfy situation.

Interested Armando! I have noticed this movement for sure. I always thought it happened to be a certain wind direction and a yaw movement. But as your video shows it could just be "weaker on the right side" and I can recall a few times this has happened, including in this video but I did not include..

I think its normal and im not bothered by this, I think not unusual for gimbal to reach its min/max movement limits (Does this on startup) the thing I would be concern by is impact to the aircraft/gimbal which is mainly caused by landing/takeoff so if you hand launch and catch you should minimize any potential dmg to gimbal.

Armando AM Posted at 2017-2-9 06:51
Try flying with the right side of your drone into the wind. My gimbal flips(not tilt) in p mode.
Let me know if yours handles it. They say the gimbal on the right is weaker than the left.
heres a clip of my drone showing the uncomfy situation.

This looks like the condition that was corrected in the last firmware update.
Many users saw it often with the original firmware but it has gone after the update.

Labroides Posted at 2017-2-11 15:45
This looks like the condition that was corrected in the last firmware update.
Many users saw it often with the original firmware but it has gone after the update.

Still happens with mine

airspace_media Posted at 2017-2-11 15:35
Interested Armando! I have noticed this movement for sure. I always thought it happened to be a certain wind direction and a yaw movement. But as your video shows it could just be "weaker on the right side" and I can recall a few times this has happened, including in this video but I did not include..

I think its normal and im not bothered by this, I think not unusual for gimbal to reach its min/max movement limits (Does this on startup) the thing I would be concern by is impact to the aircraft/gimbal which is mainly caused by landing/takeoff so if you hand launch and catch you should minimize any potential dmg to gimbal.

Thanks for the reply