I hope it was a hardware failure because hopefully 3dr can send me a replacement. Just sucks loosing the GoPro lights and so on. But it would ease the pain.
After you updated the firmware to 1.5.3 did you perform a full calibration as well as a compass calibration? Curious since I have upgraded both solos and have put 5 flights on each after the update. I did perform both calibrations after updating though.Thank you for the advise. A motor? That's not good considering I just got this for xmas. I did just update to 5.1.3 or is it 1.5.3. ....
Did you have your FAA registration number somewhere on the Solo so that if it's found the number could be used to contact you?Hello, my drone took off in mid flight about 5:00 this evening. . I mean it literally took off, straight up, and then out of sight., I lost contact with it after trying the HOME button and the AIRBRAKE button. The last picture I received showed it very high and moving away form me.
I have lost the drone and my sons gopro as well. I have alerted the local police in case it damages anything.
It prioritizes thrust over yaw control in the event it doesn't have enough power to do both. Like if the battery is getting low, it will allow the copter yaw to rotate in order to maintain stability and arrest the descent. This has no bearing on the complete loss of a motor. There is no way to stabilize that on a quad like the solo.Isn't there something in the new firmware that prioritises lift over yaw and would allow the solo to at least spiral down in the event one motor fails?
He flew it up and out over the bay. While there, it failed and fell into the water.
Cold temperature can be an issue for the battery and imu. You said you were filming the swans in the lake, so you were flying over water, was there a mist over the lake?It was in the 40's today. No wind and sunny.
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