gixxer161
lvl.1
Flight distance : 3026306 ft
United States
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Add me to the list of "power loss and fell out the sky" crashes. I had my phantom 3 Advance for 2 days, Bought it at a local hobby shop Saturday 7/18/15, it crashed Sunday 7/19/15
My first few flights were just to get to know the aircraft and build some "trust" in it's on board features (gps and such) I am an experienced airplane and helicopter pilot and AMA member so flying this thing is nothing. With that being said, I know the rules and know how to fly. on my 4th full flight I wanted to take out for a longer distance and while doing so I wanted to film the flight and compass calibration procedure to show a friend what flying is all about. the flight was like the ones stated above. Fantastic flight, full control, full signal strength, awesome video, love the aircraft. 14 min in with 38% battery I wanted to one more little flight along the soccer field and then come back at full speed and land, flying away slowly, then stopping at about 130' high, it just shut off and fell to the ground! The P3 landed in the grass and the camera broke off, 2 props broken, airframe cracked and swelled, landing gear ok, maybe cracked. the battery had one solid, and one blinking light, I held the power button and nothing.... the aircraft would not power up, I tried to power up the P3 after walking to the car, nothing... the leds would light up in a row and then just go out. I wanted to at least power it up so the P3 would close out the video file because I was recording during flight. now I get home with and find out that after the 15 min flight there were 2 video files and it saved one that was 14min long which I could view, the last min of the flight was a new file that was not closed. Now the NEXT day I decided to put the battery in and try to power it up... who knows, maybe the battery shut down due to heat? I plug it in, turn it on, and SPARKS AND FIRE under the top of the airframe!!!! I pulled the batter out right away after filling my kitchen with smoke! This really sucks for me as I know mine is a total loss.... I bought mine at a local hobby shop and they are no help at all, I tried all day long to call DJI Monday 7/20/15 and never got through (the recording would just hang up on me) so now I have to try and call all day long again today...... I and lucky that I recorded my iPhone screen during the entire flight and it has audio of me and my spotter talking during the crash so I have proof that I was screwing around hitting something, and by far not out of range, and it shows all the battery levels and everything, including the last bit of video from the camera.
Tonight after work I will create a new thread and put all the videos (they are on youtube) I don't want to take this one over, but I just had to share my experience as I would really like to know if my "smart" battery shut down from heat or something like that, and what the heck went on with the main board or whatever fried inside. Wish my luck as I try to get a hold of someone at DJI
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