Today I was flying at our mountain cabin in the woods. First flight and all seemed fine. Sparky was up and out about 30 feet. All of a sudden the RC disconnected. She then began to rise and I could not stop her. I repeated OMG over and over while watching her rise into the 200 foot tall fir trees. I knew she was a goner. At 80 feet she hit the first branch, danced around a bit and down she came. Bounced off the side of another tree and hit the ground. Everyone was watching. Fortunately the ground was soft and covered with moss. Just a few stains and damaged props. Remote would not turn off, looked up that answer on line and shut it down. Started over and she flew solid again, but too scared to go anywhere. I had not seen these pages of distressed owners discussing this issue until tonight. Hopefully this can be corrected before Sparky misbehaves again and ends up irretrievable. I wonder if PayPal would assist with return of defective product? You may want to check your credit card guarantee provisions if this turns out to be a Samsung Note 7 type of design flaw. |