Hello! I'm a beginner, this is my first quadcopter. I got it about 2 months ago, been learning to fly it mostly out in the open desert across the street from my place. Don't get too much flying time in because of windy days.
A few days ago I had it way out in the desert where we'd driven to a bighorn sheep water catchment, was flying just fine but it got a little far away from me and I lost orientation so I brought it down and then spent an hour trying to find it. I didn't fly it again that day, we had to get home - hadn't planned on spending an hour searching for it.
Yesterday I took it across the street and it would fly but then would lose power and come down. I figured my batteries had been sitting too long so I recharged them all last night. Today I took it back out and had the same problem.
It seems like it's losing signal from the controller and from a very short distance, like even just 10 feet away. I will take it up and fly it a bit and then it starts coming down on it's own and when it lands, even when I have the throttle all the way down, the props are still spinning for several seconds before it shuts down, it doesn't respond at all at that point to the throttle.
So this time I put fresh batteries in the controller, tried again, same problem. It takes off, I can fly it for maybe a minute, then comes down without responding at all to the controller. And every time it comes down the lights are blinking - like it's not synced. To fly again I have to turn off the quad and the controller then turn them both back on, sycn, and fly again - 60 seconds or so the same thing happens.
Any idea what's going on and what I can do to fix it?
A few days ago I had it way out in the desert where we'd driven to a bighorn sheep water catchment, was flying just fine but it got a little far away from me and I lost orientation so I brought it down and then spent an hour trying to find it. I didn't fly it again that day, we had to get home - hadn't planned on spending an hour searching for it.
Yesterday I took it across the street and it would fly but then would lose power and come down. I figured my batteries had been sitting too long so I recharged them all last night. Today I took it back out and had the same problem.
It seems like it's losing signal from the controller and from a very short distance, like even just 10 feet away. I will take it up and fly it a bit and then it starts coming down on it's own and when it lands, even when I have the throttle all the way down, the props are still spinning for several seconds before it shuts down, it doesn't respond at all at that point to the throttle.
So this time I put fresh batteries in the controller, tried again, same problem. It takes off, I can fly it for maybe a minute, then comes down without responding at all to the controller. And every time it comes down the lights are blinking - like it's not synced. To fly again I have to turn off the quad and the controller then turn them both back on, sycn, and fly again - 60 seconds or so the same thing happens.
Any idea what's going on and what I can do to fix it?
I read the stuff about the wind and thought I would remove the prop guards and go for a flight on a local sportsfield. All went well for the first flight but then it was picked up by a gust of wind and despite my efforts to bring it down, the wind very kindly dropped it about 30 feet up a tree!! VERY annoyed with myself but a good lesson learned the hard way! It might be fairly calm down on the ground but it doesn't necessarily mean it will be calm 60 feet higher up! Now I am glad I bought two!