Racmusic
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I just had the exact same thing happen yesterday. You have described it pretty much to a tee.
I had this happen twice last summer,,but after the troubling flight it just seemed to snap out of it,,back to normal operation,,,until now.. Mine was on the third battery of the morning..Full charged batt,,no/little breeze,,no wifi around, no power lines around,no buildings around, and yet about 3mins into flight, while coming down from about 200ft, it started doing the hippy hippy shake. This is quite unnerving to see. All of a sudden I heard the motors shutdown and it face planted from about 60-70ft.
When it started shaking I tried to regain control,,by switching to ATTI,,full throttle straight up,,,fowward/backward,,nothing. I had NO control at all on the phantom at that point,,.
Last summer the same thing happened but I was able to get it back to land(over water) and with it about 2ft off ground it did the very fast face plant..I though it may have been a low or bad batt,,,,but I flew all summer long using the same batt with no issues.
Yesterday up to the point of shutting down the phantom was rock solid,,. Got some awesome shots... I don't believe it was piolet error but rather a defect in the unit somewhere..That however does not make me feel any better about losing 1500.00,,PLUS the kicker is I just got 3 new batts for it,,one of them was doing its first cycle..NO it was not the one that crashed. The batt that was in it proved itself quite a few times..
The really sad part is I'm on a limited income (disability). The phantom was a BIG investment for me and now it's gone,,done. |
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