steph
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Just had a motor failure while hovering a new Pathfinder 2 hexacopter ( those of you who've been feeling the urge to get one, you've been warned :lol: ) .
While a big fan of RC planes, I hadn't experimented with multirotors before, so I figured a hexa would be safer since it would be able to land on four engines if anything went wrong. Well....almost right. The gyros tried to keep it stable, but it still ended up doing a hard landing, with the dead engine impacting first and the "feet" taking the rest of the shock.
Might be some sort of controller issue, since other engines stopped as well while testing it on the ground after the crash. And when I managed to get the dead one reluctantly going, its opposite would stop :rofl:
Edit: being of the cheap chinese drone variety, I wasn't expecting very much of it. It had a "return home" function which pretty much sent it flying away in a random direction . Perhaps it was trying to go back to China :lol:
Not that this would be my first ever RC incident...some of my other achievements include ripping the wings off an RC glider during an attempted low pass (too much G, I guess), and plowing my brother's RC Cessna nose first into the ground after stalling while trying to climb vertically :tiphat:
What are your RC stories?
While a big fan of RC planes, I hadn't experimented with multirotors before, so I figured a hexa would be safer since it would be able to land on four engines if anything went wrong. Well....almost right. The gyros tried to keep it stable, but it still ended up doing a hard landing, with the dead engine impacting first and the "feet" taking the rest of the shock.
Might be some sort of controller issue, since other engines stopped as well while testing it on the ground after the crash. And when I managed to get the dead one reluctantly going, its opposite would stop :rofl:
Edit: being of the cheap chinese drone variety, I wasn't expecting very much of it. It had a "return home" function which pretty much sent it flying away in a random direction . Perhaps it was trying to go back to China :lol:
Not that this would be my first ever RC incident...some of my other achievements include ripping the wings off an RC glider during an attempted low pass (too much G, I guess), and plowing my brother's RC Cessna nose first into the ground after stalling while trying to climb vertically :tiphat:
What are your RC stories?
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