Or how to destroy $800 worth of gear in less than a second. Fyi, you can expect goofball things like this to happen in any hobby.
Believe it or not my Phantom suffered a Bird/Bat Strike last night. I was practicing some tracking runs and learning how to use CL/HL after dark over a soccer field at 90 feet. As I was finishing up I put her into RTH and heard the swoosh of wings over my head. A second later I hear a thud and my P2 flat spins into the parking lot in an explosion of props, battery and landing gear. On inspection 4 props broke, the landing gear buckled, the battery case cracked and my gimbal bent but the P2 is perfectly fine. A thorough inspection on the workbench showed no cracks, lose wires or damage to the motors. Popped in the a spare battery, attached the extended legs I was going to install anyway, recalibrated and the P2 flew fine this morning.
Regarding my Gimbal. I had purchased a damaged H3 2D to swap out the Go Pro connector in place of the 3D ribbon cable.
Would the Gimbal arms be interchangeable???
Should I send it to someone?????
Should I toss both in the recycling bin???
Sorry but there is no footage the Go Pro was destroyed in the crash as well.
I have gone through the site and read all blogs and this is a nice one:
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