inspire 1 went in the ocean is there anything to do to salvage it
Right now is in a container with fresh water
Right now is in a container with fresh water
Inspire 1 went swimming
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I feel for you. Mine went into a building yesterday. Nothing left of it. Good buy. Goodbye $8000
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I know how you must feel DennisR
I guess I got a bunch of batteries controllers and cases for sale
I guess I got a bunch of batteries controllers and cases for sale
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To be honest I don't know. It just got away while I was looking at the screen filming a slow pan. I looked up and couldn't see it. I hit RTH and then I saw it over the top of a tree and crash. I count believe it. I don't believe it was pilot error but the flight data should confirm that. it was in LOS but I was looking at the screen at the time.
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Well that's why WE follow usually some rules, the most important one are the startup procedures (check RTH etc., you know them)
But many forget #2
Don't panic if you don't see your bird immediately, check your map and the position and height of your bird. If you don't trust RTH, fly it back home manually until you gain visual contact again.
Chris
I dont think that had anything to do with it as it was set for 60 metres. The craft was actually far away from where I thought it was. At the time, I was not flying it. I was checking where it was on the screen. I had it in sight just before.
I always set my RTH to 60 metres to be safe but that wasn't the cause. I was checking my position when I couldn't see the craft. Apparently the craft was flying about 300 metres from where it should have been. I had my hands off the sticks. It should have just hovered.
Personally I think you're going a little too far with the water a good rinse off is good and then a good dry out remember you're dealing with electronics.
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I was over water. I think I had the camera turned towards me thinking it would come home but the craft was going sideways at the time. Thats what I get from the flight records.
Sorry for your loss. Major pain. Do you think it was caused by a GPS error caused by reflected signals off buildings?
What I dont understand is why RTH didn't kick in after i hit the button. Once I realised I couldn't see it and didn't know where it was, I hit the RTH. The RTH altitude is always set to 60 metres to be safe.
RTH needs to be pushed and held for 3-4 seconds if using button on RC - I'm not sure if that's a change in recent firmware as thought previously when I tried it you had to just push it and release?
Also given the proximity to the building if it had been a GPS error leading to a fly-away a switch to ATTI would have regained control for you - however given you had lost sight of it you wouldn't have necessarily known which way to correct for the momentum if it was already moving at speed towards the building... I'm not sure what I would have done - probably switch to ATTI and rapid ascent to try and bring it out of harms way and hopefully into sight. Perhaps a more experienced drone operator will chime in as there lessons to be learned here.
Also given the proximity to the building if it had been a GPS error leading to a fly-away a switch to ATTI would have regained control for you - however given you had lost sight of it you wouldn't have necessarily known which way to correct for the momentum if it was already moving at speed towards the building... I'm not sure what I would have done - probably switch to ATTI and rapid ascent to try and bring it out of harms way and hopefully into sight. Perhaps a more experienced drone operator will chime in as there lessons to be learned here.
I think you are right with that. To be honest though, Thinking back I thought it would hover where it was while I was hitting the RTH. I didn't realise it was moving a previous times it would have just hovered and come home. I just think I had the cam facing away from the nose and thinking it was coming towards me, was actually going sideways with the camera facing me. I will have to learn to check the cam is snapped in to the way the drone is facing.
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There is a lag in the RTH that I have noticed... if your in trouble... It's not a parachute
