Landing drone flips over and will not turn off?

Posted by Kris Kitchen on April 11, 2015 at 11:45am

Landing RTL drone flips over ( stupid mole hill, or grass) and will not turn off. This happened to me on a landing a few times. The device will flip over and continues running, I cannot shut it off.  I use down to the left, no dice in any mode. It finally killed itself. Is there a way to program a death switch? The last time it ate up a pair of blades.

I have had this happen a few times, on 2 separate drones. 

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    • Tim Carter > Andy Piper April 12, 2015 at 7:58pm

      Ok, how about an "it's landed" switch that will let the iris know, before it does, that it is in fact on the ground?

      ps... I did get mine back in the air today :[)

  • Kelly Williams April 11, 2015 at 8:08pm

    I know this isn't a real answer to your question, but if I'm not sure about the landing (dirt, level, etc.) I have taken to just catching it. Many props saved. lol

    • Tim Carter > Kelly Williams April 11, 2015 at 8:13pm

      Maybe this is the answer! Turn the legs into handles....

    • John > Tim Carter April 16, 2015 at 7:42am
      Not sure I'd want four high powered spinning blades that close to my face. I would not recommend this method. It's better to have a broken coptet than a slashed face. You can have anything happen they last few seconds.
    • Kris Kitchen > Tim Carter April 12, 2015 at 1:01pm

      Thats a Crazy idea! I am literally going to design them now. 

    • Linus Casassa > Kris Kitchen April 15, 2015 at 7:42am

      Just switch to stabilize with throttle down to 0 when the land code is not detecting the land and then disarm.

    • Gustav Kuhn > Tim Carter April 12, 2015 at 7:17am

      I'm using APM 2.6, all my missions end with RTL.

      6 feet or so, I pull the throttle all the way down.

      At this point, APM controls throttle, and at the moment of touching, I flick to STAB mode.

      Hasn't failed me yet......

      It helps to come from a "real rc heli" world :-)

    • Mike Boland > Gustav Kuhn April 20, 2015 at 12:47pm

      +1

    • George Lawrence > Gustav Kuhn April 16, 2015 at 11:53pm

      I do exactly the same on 2.5 and have never had a problem i also come from rc heli background

    • Marco Paggot > Gustav Kuhn April 13, 2015 at 4:14am

      +1 

      Real rc heli habbits rock. 

      The downside is that you sometimes try to "disarm" rc heli when land. It turns to be dangerous ;)

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