Emergency landed my h on the beach

[Summit Media]

I flew off a 20 ft cliff to film surfers got the critical battery warning land emediately. I was just below the cliff line and couldnt gain any altitude and had to set down on the beach and it flipped. I cleaned the prop motors best I could, popped off the camera to blow a little sand off. I put it back on and calibrated the gimble but it only lasted a few seconds and went back to the previous screen. Seems to work fine but I thought the calibration last 2 minutes. any thoughts?

 

[Rayray]

I really have not timed the gimbal cal, but it is definitely more than a few seconds, maybe a minute or more.

No point in telling you you should not have flown, you know that. What's done is done. All you can do is to take time, be patient, and clean more. Be careful not to blow compressed air too hard. Don't use Freon. There's no magic solution...You'll get it done, just hang in there.

 

[Summit Media]

I really have not timed the gimbal cal, but it is definitely more than a few seconds, maybe a minute or more.

No point in telling you you should not have flown, you know that. What's done is done. All you can do is to take time, be patient, and clean more. Be careful not to blow compressed air too hard. Don't use Freon. There's no magic solution...You'll get it done, just hang in there.

 

[Summit Media]

I haven't flown since this happened Rayray. I need to order a new landing gear strut, $10. I'm not sure if the calibration was short because I did it recently and didn't need it but on the table top camera plus pan and tilt functions work fine. I will check things thoroughly before I fly and test flight!

 

[Steve Carr]

I haven't flown since this happened Rayray. I need to order a new landing gear strut, $10. I'm not sure if the calibration was short because I did it recently and didn't need it but on the table top camera plus pan and tilt functions work fine. I will check things thoroughly before I fly and test flight!

Once the calibration is started, it should complete the entire process. Try it again and see if it completes.

 

[gwhuntoon]

I find some good light, magnifier, can of air, careful disassembly and a soft brush, like a lens brush with the squeeze bulb are great for removing all those stubborn sand particles.

 

[ThunderChicken]

It sounds like you started flying on a discharged battery. Post your flight log.

 

[Summit Media]

Gimble calibration successful. one of the rubber grommets on the gimble mount had popped. I pulled it back through, remount ed the camera and the calibration ran it's whole course. Thanks