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Had my first major crash today,
flight one only lasted a few minutes - RTL , battery dropped real quick, landed safe all good.
flight two, 15 minutes up as high as 400 feet out as far as 1200 feet taking photos of our farm, landed ok with 15% left.
flight three (log and tlog attached) put in another battery, wanted a few more photos while the weather was good, up 450 feet approx 250 feet from home, taking a few pics and then message waiting for solo on the controller. Could not see or hear the bird, so went looking, found it in my paddock , a fair bit of cosmetic damage, it hit hard. Went home tail between my legs, put a batter in to get the logs, thought battery failure but seems ok. Seems like it stopped in mid air ??
Went back to the crash site to look for my little strobe light and collect any remaining plastics etc and there was no evidence of 3 of the 4 bright orange props, one was on the bird at impact, broken, the others nowhere. I looked in the next paddock and spotted something, jumped the fence and 3 props, all near each other, looked brand new.
I have a prelfight check list I did for flight one and I made sure the props were tight, they are the Master Airscrew props with the nuts built in and have been used for about 10 flights, I do not store my drone with the props on. It is obviously my fault but has anyone every had props come off 3 at once ? I now know to check each flight but this is a first for me.
I pulled the bird down and have replaced the shell, battery tray, legs, GPS cable, GPS shield, HDMI ribbon cable and leg extenders. Will need to print a new set of camera mounts, the camera copped a big wack, broke the LCD screen but seems to work still ,don't really need the LCD screen once connect to the drone anyway.
Have re-calibrated the levels and compass and had a little fly, all seems ok so far but will be doing a lot of testing before I mount any Nikon's back on there. It was my first solo so I decided to rebuild, the right thing to do.
The logs are attached if anyone can look at and determine anything else. As I said, user error but I have done multiple flight before (4 batteries)without checking props. I suppose it could of been worse, lucky to have it flying again.
flight one only lasted a few minutes - RTL , battery dropped real quick, landed safe all good.
flight two, 15 minutes up as high as 400 feet out as far as 1200 feet taking photos of our farm, landed ok with 15% left.
flight three (log and tlog attached) put in another battery, wanted a few more photos while the weather was good, up 450 feet approx 250 feet from home, taking a few pics and then message waiting for solo on the controller. Could not see or hear the bird, so went looking, found it in my paddock , a fair bit of cosmetic damage, it hit hard. Went home tail between my legs, put a batter in to get the logs, thought battery failure but seems ok. Seems like it stopped in mid air ??
Went back to the crash site to look for my little strobe light and collect any remaining plastics etc and there was no evidence of 3 of the 4 bright orange props, one was on the bird at impact, broken, the others nowhere. I looked in the next paddock and spotted something, jumped the fence and 3 props, all near each other, looked brand new.
I have a prelfight check list I did for flight one and I made sure the props were tight, they are the Master Airscrew props with the nuts built in and have been used for about 10 flights, I do not store my drone with the props on. It is obviously my fault but has anyone every had props come off 3 at once ? I now know to check each flight but this is a first for me.
I pulled the bird down and have replaced the shell, battery tray, legs, GPS cable, GPS shield, HDMI ribbon cable and leg extenders. Will need to print a new set of camera mounts, the camera copped a big wack, broke the LCD screen but seems to work still ,don't really need the LCD screen once connect to the drone anyway.
Have re-calibrated the levels and compass and had a little fly, all seems ok so far but will be doing a lot of testing before I mount any Nikon's back on there. It was my first solo so I decided to rebuild, the right thing to do.
The logs are attached if anyone can look at and determine anything else. As I said, user error but I have done multiple flight before (4 batteries)without checking props. I suppose it could of been worse, lucky to have it flying again.