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- Apr 30, 2019
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What could cause so many yaw errors.
[This ended in a crash, but with apparently only a broken prop.]
I flew my sparky since (short flights), with no apparent problems.
I am aware I only had 8 satellites on takeoff and 42% battery [after the fact] ... I know, "bad boy"!
Somehow I grabbed the wrong battery [out of the 3] even though I swore
that I charged all 3 batteries in the charge bank the evening before.
I had flow the day before and no problems either.
I'm not looking for a lecture on poor judgement, pre-flight, etc.
I guess I was just blinded by the awesome Switzerland scenery.
I have an Phantom 3A, Mavic Pro & Mavic Zoom with no crashes.
I'd just like to know if I might have a defect in Sparky, just waiting ......to CRASH
Why didn't I take one of the other better drones you might ask ....
Insurance in Switzerland - you have to have 1 million in liability
for drones 500 grams or more ... Sparky weighs 300 grams at takeoff.
I believe the Mavic Air is under the 500 gram limit also, but I don't own one.
link to Airdata UAV flight record for that flight:
also I attached the flight record txt file [tried to upload the cvs, but that extension isn't allowed.
[This ended in a crash, but with apparently only a broken prop.]
I flew my sparky since (short flights), with no apparent problems.
I am aware I only had 8 satellites on takeoff and 42% battery [after the fact] ... I know, "bad boy"!
Somehow I grabbed the wrong battery [out of the 3] even though I swore
that I charged all 3 batteries in the charge bank the evening before.
I had flow the day before and no problems either.
I'm not looking for a lecture on poor judgement, pre-flight, etc.
I guess I was just blinded by the awesome Switzerland scenery.
I have an Phantom 3A, Mavic Pro & Mavic Zoom with no crashes.
I'd just like to know if I might have a defect in Sparky, just waiting ......to CRASH
Why didn't I take one of the other better drones you might ask ....
Insurance in Switzerland - you have to have 1 million in liability
for drones 500 grams or more ... Sparky weighs 300 grams at takeoff.
I believe the Mavic Air is under the 500 gram limit also, but I don't own one.
link to Airdata UAV flight record for that flight:
also I attached the flight record txt file [tried to upload the cvs, but that extension isn't allowed.