Hey Guys!
Experienced my first crash today. I've had some close calls before but nothing where the bird would go down. I was playing around in sport mode having fun and practicing tight turns, figure of 8s, everything pretty much at full stick back and forth. At one point I underestimated the speed and ran sideways into some bushes. The motors screamed as it toppled over and fell to the ground from about 2 meters. It landed in the dirt on its side with one of the front arms folded.
The bad news is I don't have any video of my stupidity to share with you guys. I thought the controller would always cache the video but apparently it only caches video when you actually record. At least I didn't find any file of the particular flight in the DJI_RECORD folder on my phone. Lesson learned always record the flight and delete the files I don't need afterwards...
The good news is apart from a new set of props the bird is absolutely fine. The gimbal and IMU values are fine also but the original props got destroyed. I inspected the bird, changed the props and flew the rest of the battery down to 20%. I got lucky and got off with only a scare. I should get myself a race quad and use that instead for these kinds of flights...
Fly safe you guys
Experienced my first crash today. I've had some close calls before but nothing where the bird would go down. I was playing around in sport mode having fun and practicing tight turns, figure of 8s, everything pretty much at full stick back and forth. At one point I underestimated the speed and ran sideways into some bushes. The motors screamed as it toppled over and fell to the ground from about 2 meters. It landed in the dirt on its side with one of the front arms folded.
The bad news is I don't have any video of my stupidity to share with you guys. I thought the controller would always cache the video but apparently it only caches video when you actually record. At least I didn't find any file of the particular flight in the DJI_RECORD folder on my phone. Lesson learned always record the flight and delete the files I don't need afterwards...
The good news is apart from a new set of props the bird is absolutely fine. The gimbal and IMU values are fine also but the original props got destroyed. I inspected the bird, changed the props and flew the rest of the battery down to 20%. I got lucky and got off with only a scare. I should get myself a race quad and use that instead for these kinds of flights...
Fly safe you guys
