I had an interesting flyaway yesterday with the H on a job.
We were filming over a road construction project in several locations and all had been fine.
Moved to the last location of the day.
I flew the H which behaved fine apart from an occasional Compass Calibration warning.
So when I landed I though, hmmm one more flight only with the H shall I just fly without calibrating.
New battery, warning went off continuously so decided on a calibration. This took the usual couple of mins though like an idiot I forgot to leave it for 10 mins or so switched on.
I took off and immediately a couple of crazy wiggles and she was off, no control whatsoever, crash landing about 200 yards away fortunately with no witness
It's the only time it has ever happened to me and the feeling of helplessness as off it goes with a suicidal mind of it's own is quite frightening.
Anyway, it turns out I was on a road bridge which of course is full of steel and our client was flying their a little while back with an inspire 2 and had exactly the same issue though I found out too late to save what looks like a totaled Typhoon H
I flew the H920+ straight after thinking it was my poor calibration technique and still not realising I was on a steel bridge and it flew flawlessly.
We were filming over a road construction project in several locations and all had been fine.
Moved to the last location of the day.
I flew the H which behaved fine apart from an occasional Compass Calibration warning.
So when I landed I though, hmmm one more flight only with the H shall I just fly without calibrating.
New battery, warning went off continuously so decided on a calibration. This took the usual couple of mins though like an idiot I forgot to leave it for 10 mins or so switched on.
I took off and immediately a couple of crazy wiggles and she was off, no control whatsoever, crash landing about 200 yards away fortunately with no witness
It's the only time it has ever happened to me and the feeling of helplessness as off it goes with a suicidal mind of it's own is quite frightening.
Anyway, it turns out I was on a road bridge which of course is full of steel and our client was flying their a little while back with an inspire 2 and had exactly the same issue though I found out too late to save what looks like a totaled Typhoon H
I flew the H920+ straight after thinking it was my poor calibration technique and still not realising I was on a steel bridge and it flew flawlessly.