hi guys,
last week a managed to get my mavic stuck in a tree and it was in the extremities of the big beast too so no chance of climbing up to get it. i managed to get it down by hitting tennis balls at the branch till the mavic dislodged and fell to earth. Id say it fell from about 30 foot, through a few branches to land pretty softly on a grassy bank. it did land square on one of the arms (front right) but amazingly there seemed no damage and after a close inspection i risked a short low flight and everything seemed ok so i continued to use it as normal.
now today when i was setting it up i noticed that this arm's spinny bit (sorry) that you attach the propeller does not turn smoothly and makes a grinding noise when you turn it. sometimes it turns well, other times it gets stuck, almost as if something was stuck in there (my bad guess) and i have to apply a little force to turn it.
still i thought, whats the worst that can happen so i still tried to fly... dumb right? well it didnt crash and i flew for 50 minutes and the only thing i noticed was that at one point the mavic seemed to lean a little (picture didn't look flat) but this could have been paranoia or optical illusion.
Anyone got any ideas of what i might have done?
thoughts on continuing to use it?
its not so easy for me to get it checked out at the moment and i dont really want to send off mavic for weeks for some guy to charge me 200 quid to remove some dirt; however, that's preferable to the motor dying mid-flight and my lovely mavic nosediving into oblivion.
has anyone had similar happen to their mavic?
last week a managed to get my mavic stuck in a tree and it was in the extremities of the big beast too so no chance of climbing up to get it. i managed to get it down by hitting tennis balls at the branch till the mavic dislodged and fell to earth. Id say it fell from about 30 foot, through a few branches to land pretty softly on a grassy bank. it did land square on one of the arms (front right) but amazingly there seemed no damage and after a close inspection i risked a short low flight and everything seemed ok so i continued to use it as normal.
now today when i was setting it up i noticed that this arm's spinny bit (sorry) that you attach the propeller does not turn smoothly and makes a grinding noise when you turn it. sometimes it turns well, other times it gets stuck, almost as if something was stuck in there (my bad guess) and i have to apply a little force to turn it.
still i thought, whats the worst that can happen so i still tried to fly... dumb right? well it didnt crash and i flew for 50 minutes and the only thing i noticed was that at one point the mavic seemed to lean a little (picture didn't look flat) but this could have been paranoia or optical illusion.
Anyone got any ideas of what i might have done?
thoughts on continuing to use it?
its not so easy for me to get it checked out at the moment and i dont really want to send off mavic for weeks for some guy to charge me 200 quid to remove some dirt; however, that's preferable to the motor dying mid-flight and my lovely mavic nosediving into oblivion.
has anyone had similar happen to their mavic?
