This evening I went with some friends up to the mountains and set out to fly. Was chased away from one site by a cloud of mosquitoes, and inadvertently packed up my Air while still powered on. Some 5 to 10 minutes later at another site I opened the case and found it quite warm – but not absurdly hot, I thought. So again I set out to fly.
Carefully went through calibrating the compass. Launched, went up about 60-80 feet enjoying the distant view of Mt Lassen in the sunset. Then the drone began to veer off position and make erratic sounds, then it suddenly went hard horizontally, crashed into a pine tree, and came down with a broken arm.
I was a bit hasty, trying to catch the sunset light, but I went carefully through compass calibration, and I thought I was solid. Does this sound like a likely consequence of the aircraft being too hot?
Carefully went through calibrating the compass. Launched, went up about 60-80 feet enjoying the distant view of Mt Lassen in the sunset. Then the drone began to veer off position and make erratic sounds, then it suddenly went hard horizontally, crashed into a pine tree, and came down with a broken arm.
I was a bit hasty, trying to catch the sunset light, but I went carefully through compass calibration, and I thought I was solid. Does this sound like a likely consequence of the aircraft being too hot?