Recent content by austincwelch

I really appreciate your time/thoughts, Fly Dawg (and others). It just sucks.... was literally heart-wrenching to watch it slowly descend and descend and descend into the water and not be able to do anything.

Is there anything else I can provide? as I mentioned in the original post, we dived for the aircraft this morning but the visibility below about 50 feet is just about black.... and who knows how far the currents took it. The likelihood of finding it is VERY low.... The main reason I'm inquiring...

Fly Dawg, it's a P3 standard operating IOS. Additionally, the only firmware update was applied before I ever took my first flight out of the box... so i've only ever flown this aircraft with that latest update. The morning flights enabled me to climb to 400 feet without issue and laterally I...

But the two previous flights that day went to 400 no problem and were in a very location (give or take 400m laterally)

I did double check it before I took off..... and it showed me right where I was which is why I suspected the home point had moved.... also, why, if any reason at all, would it have showed max distance reached when it was only 160 ish feet form the home point?! Whether it was on the island or 10m...

It limited me at 95 and wouldnt enable me to climb higher. Instead of the normal 400, it stopped climbing at 95 and indicated the max alt was reached.

Nothing! that's what is crazy! There was wide-open space up there and i couldnt climb higher than 95 either...

Never... nor was there request calibration before takeoff

Also, the real question is that when it acknowledged the landing cancellation (which it does several times) and the left stick was applied "full up" why it continued its descent?

The takeoff point was about 10m east of where any of the flightpath shows. I was on the point just northwest of the northernmost house when I took off. There is no flightpath shown from the land to the landing point which is where the confusion lies. Thats why my assumption is that it created a...

Hey Fly Dawg, thanks. Had not utilized this tool before. wow! This is pretty crazy. The crash point is accurate.... this follows just about exactly where I thought it landed. However, the flightpath and other information do not appear accurate at all. There were not aggressive lateral deviations...

Hi Folks, My name is Austin Welch and I am new to the forum here, but I am looking for a little help. Yesterday, I took my aircraft off for a flight on an island near Alexandria Bay, New York. It was my third flight of the day and I’d had no issues previously. After installing a fresh battery...