Just wanted to share my experience on my Solo doing a Flip when landing on today's flight !
Iv had my Solo for about 2 month now and flown many..many flights with out any real issues at all..!
But for some reason today was different !!
Iv flown it 3 times today and only got one good landing..
I put up 2 short videos to share what Iv experienced today what I call (Drift Landing)
Iv never experienced this issue until today !
Everything was going well Untill I tried to land!
The first Video ! (The Flip)
I brought the solo to hover in front of me about eye level.. but I notice something that Iv never seen the Solo do..it was NOT staying still....it would be DRIFTING to the right and to the left and being very disoriented all on its own? Then that's when I manually tried to land it using the left stick pull down..I manage to get the Solo on the ground and at that point held the left stick Tottaly in the down position to shut off the motors ...but instead of the Solo shutting down the motors..it seem like the 2 Front motors suddenly started to speed up and causing the solo do a flip ??
After the flip..I check the Props and Motors to make sure nothing was damaged.!!
I was lucky...everything looked fine!
So I shut everything down and changed battery and then took off into the air again to see if I would still experience that same drift landing?
I flew the Solo about 200 feet away from home point...and I hit my RTL ..!
The Solo went up to its 150 RTL altitude then started to decent down to land ..and me getting ready to hit the fly button just in case I see any kinda drift as she is landing!
But it landed perfect and shutting off its own motors!
My Secound Video (RTL Drift)
So now I drove about 10 miles away to a different area and was flying around...then decided to hit the RTL...but as the Solo was coming down I notice it started to DRIFT all over the place again and getting very disoriented as she is trying to land on its own...it was about 3 inches of the ground when I notice it started to aggressively started to Drift forward while trying to land its self!! Thats when I knew I had to hit the FLY button and get control of this thing...or els I knew it was gonna be a Damaged Landing!!!
So I hit the FLY button just in time ..gaine manuall control and brought the Solo high enough to grab it's leg ..then held the left stick all the way down till the Motors Stopped!!
I don't really know why this Drifting is happening today ...I know I locked on to about 11 to 14 Sats before take off!!
Has anybody els experience this?
Maby I just had a bad GPS day or something!
The Flip
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Iv had my Solo for about 2 month now and flown many..many flights with out any real issues at all..!
But for some reason today was different !!
Iv flown it 3 times today and only got one good landing..
I put up 2 short videos to share what Iv experienced today what I call (Drift Landing)
Iv never experienced this issue until today !
Everything was going well Untill I tried to land!
The first Video ! (The Flip)
I brought the solo to hover in front of me about eye level.. but I notice something that Iv never seen the Solo do..it was NOT staying still....it would be DRIFTING to the right and to the left and being very disoriented all on its own? Then that's when I manually tried to land it using the left stick pull down..I manage to get the Solo on the ground and at that point held the left stick Tottaly in the down position to shut off the motors ...but instead of the Solo shutting down the motors..it seem like the 2 Front motors suddenly started to speed up and causing the solo do a flip ??
After the flip..I check the Props and Motors to make sure nothing was damaged.!!
I was lucky...everything looked fine!
So I shut everything down and changed battery and then took off into the air again to see if I would still experience that same drift landing?
I flew the Solo about 200 feet away from home point...and I hit my RTL ..!
The Solo went up to its 150 RTL altitude then started to decent down to land ..and me getting ready to hit the fly button just in case I see any kinda drift as she is landing!
But it landed perfect and shutting off its own motors!
My Secound Video (RTL Drift)
So now I drove about 10 miles away to a different area and was flying around...then decided to hit the RTL...but as the Solo was coming down I notice it started to DRIFT all over the place again and getting very disoriented as she is trying to land on its own...it was about 3 inches of the ground when I notice it started to aggressively started to Drift forward while trying to land its self!! Thats when I knew I had to hit the FLY button and get control of this thing...or els I knew it was gonna be a Damaged Landing!!!
So I hit the FLY button just in time ..gaine manuall control and brought the Solo high enough to grab it's leg ..then held the left stick all the way down till the Motors Stopped!!
I don't really know why this Drifting is happening today ...I know I locked on to about 11 to 14 Sats before take off!!
Has anybody els experience this?
Maby I just had a bad GPS day or something!
The Flip
The Leg Catch
Fly Safe
Fly Smart
Catch A Leg