Today at the park Iris took off happy, flew to my limit and came back like it should. I start flying again and Iris becomes unresponsive and heads for the ground, lands hard and takes off again, I was on loiter mode. I switched to standard mode to try to regain control. I was able to get it on the ground-upside down, but at least it didn't fly away again. Ruined one prop, but that's fine. I bring it home and connect to Mission Planner, did the accelerometer calibration just in case it got knocked off . Put new prop on and go to another place to try it out. Did good for a while and then started acting up again. When it went out to my limit at 150 ft away it just dropped, touched ground and took off again. I couldn't get it to come back to me, but I did hit the land switch and got it on the ground, but motors didn't want to stop After a minute they finally did. At the end of this ordeal my transmitter starts beeping-low battery for it. Could that have been my problem ? Low power on transmitter ? Should I reset everything back to factory settings and do all calibrations ? It seems like ever since I got to use Mission Planner been having intermittent problems.
Any ideas ?
Thanks,
Jeff
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Hi Nick,
It was the batteries in the controller that were going down.
I had a failsafe for Iris to RTL at 10.7. Never got that low.
I have only used MIssion Planner to access settings on Iris. Have never loaded a mission into it. Generally fly in loiter mode.
I did a factory reset last night, but I don't think weather is going to allow me to fly today.
Thanks for the ideas,
Jeff
Doubt that was the issue. Need the logs off the copter to see what it thought was going on. It will tell use if it had a failsafe condition and what it was.
I will see if I can figure out how to show you logs. Last night was the first time I tried downloading them and didn't see any for April 10. The most recent I saw was April 9-a day that I didn't fly-but did change altitude limits.
Thanks,
Jeff