Recent content by Gerald Oliver

You are lucky, mine ended up in 30 feet of water. Sent the ST10 back to Yuneec in UK and they couldn't see any reason for it to fall from the sky. All the telemetry was OK, battery good and good GPS - does not bode well!! It had only had a few hours on it. They have offered to sell me another...

My Q500+ dropped out of the sky last week for no apparent reason. I had been flying with one battery for around 12 minutes, changed location and put in a new battery. Carried out all the pre-flight checks including tightening the props and it flew for around 6 minutes and dropped into the Marina...

all sorted

Thanks once again Jafo, Yuneec have been great, next day delivery - now setting aside today to do the work - have camcorder set up to record it as well as taking loads of pics! Cheers

Thanks Jafo, just been confirmed by Yuneec UK, probable cause - a stress fracture from previous accident.

it is here!!

Thanks for your reply, it literally snapped 3 feet from the ground, I have put a picture of it on the forum but couldn't upload it here. I did crash it some weeks ago and it fell around 20 feet onto the concrete but only damaged the props and the catch on the battery door, it has been flying...

Nice and calm this morning so decided to have a quick flight before work. Attached props as usual, completed usual pre-flight checks. Q500+ positioned in open space with no obstacles. Started motors and all running OK. Increased revs on motors and drone lifted to around 3 feet when it went...