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I had a crash a few weeks ago with my M2P. All in all it was pretty gentle. I had it on Active Track, and it flew into the upper branches of a small tree while it was rotating around me sidewise. It landed in soft snow on top of grass after tumbling through thin branches...
...one prop was missing in the snow and another was broken. I did a quick look, everything else seemed fine, so I replaced the two props and did a cautious test flight. All normal so I flew a subsequent longer flight and have had it out a few times since then.... some of them far and high flights where it would have been troublesome should I have had to recover the craft.
So, today I'm packing for a trip and decided to do an inventory, check over the Mavic, make sure all the props were good, etc. I found out that one of the props had a significant crack in it (running halfway across and then down the center). I'm not sure if I missed it on initial inspection, or it was weakened and had continued to grow. But in any case I removed the prop from the motor and two of the three tabs had broken off and fell out with it. So, that prop was held in there by luck and the darn thing could have tumbled out of the sky.
Lesson learned... if you have a crash, even if everything seems to be behaving properly. Give it a careful look and I'd recommend removing and re-installing all the props.
I know this is common practice for the old pros, and some of you may do this before every flight, but was certainly a wake up call for me, who thought I had already checked it over well.
Safe flying, everyone!
...one prop was missing in the snow and another was broken. I did a quick look, everything else seemed fine, so I replaced the two props and did a cautious test flight. All normal so I flew a subsequent longer flight and have had it out a few times since then.... some of them far and high flights where it would have been troublesome should I have had to recover the craft.
So, today I'm packing for a trip and decided to do an inventory, check over the Mavic, make sure all the props were good, etc. I found out that one of the props had a significant crack in it (running halfway across and then down the center). I'm not sure if I missed it on initial inspection, or it was weakened and had continued to grow. But in any case I removed the prop from the motor and two of the three tabs had broken off and fell out with it. So, that prop was held in there by luck and the darn thing could have tumbled out of the sky.
Lesson learned... if you have a crash, even if everything seems to be behaving properly. Give it a careful look and I'd recommend removing and re-installing all the props.
I know this is common practice for the old pros, and some of you may do this before every flight, but was certainly a wake up call for me, who thought I had already checked it over well.
Safe flying, everyone!