So I picked up a barely used Typhooh H back in November. I've had roughly 30 flights, from short to 10/12 minutes all successful other than clipping a single prop on the edge of a shrub in the front yard trying to fly too close to it early on.
Beautiful sunny day today, winds are perfectly calm and 55 degrees out. Not typical March weather for Seattle but darned nice.
Fired up the H, everything looked normal and hit the left joystick up to take off. It immediately pitched over forward about 30 degrees and took off fast right about a foot off the ground into a fence. Doubled checked the controller and it was in mode 2, angle mode and speed set to turtle. right joystick was centered and fingers not even on it. I let go of the left stick soon as it pointed the wrong way and it continued on as if someone else was controlling it.
Damnedest thing I've seen.
Looks like she is totaled or close to it. At least 2 or 3 motor arms broken, camera gimbal came off, housing on the camera came apart. Lost all 6 propellers.
Even if I can fix it, I can't trust something that does something unpredictable like that.
I know there have been some fly aways others have experienced but anything like this?
And I can probably go search for it but how do I pull the logs/telemetry and try and sort out what she did?
Beautiful sunny day today, winds are perfectly calm and 55 degrees out. Not typical March weather for Seattle but darned nice.
Fired up the H, everything looked normal and hit the left joystick up to take off. It immediately pitched over forward about 30 degrees and took off fast right about a foot off the ground into a fence. Doubled checked the controller and it was in mode 2, angle mode and speed set to turtle. right joystick was centered and fingers not even on it. I let go of the left stick soon as it pointed the wrong way and it continued on as if someone else was controlling it.
Damnedest thing I've seen.
Looks like she is totaled or close to it. At least 2 or 3 motor arms broken, camera gimbal came off, housing on the camera came apart. Lost all 6 propellers.
Even if I can fix it, I can't trust something that does something unpredictable like that.
I know there have been some fly aways others have experienced but anything like this?
And I can probably go search for it but how do I pull the logs/telemetry and try and sort out what she did?