Hi Guys
Well I just came back from a large and smooth FlightPlan flight around local lake. It all went superbly. After flight still had 45% battery so why not do some cocky manual flight acrobatics. All going like a legend except for the one tree I should have considered sticking out more than the rest. ANAFI falls 10m, horrible thud. To my surprise no broken legs, they in fact folded in on one side. The B props all bent, the camera jumped out of its rubber shock absorber mounts and the little metal T thing fully out and was dangling on one side. I just brought home and managed to get camera bits all back together by unscrewing from underneath and reassembling (they supply the correct Torx tool in the propeller box) and replaced any twisted props. To my relief it fired up, hovered and camera tested out ok.
I can see Parrot have designed this thing to be quite sturdy and that delicate looking camera quite well suspended but with enough shock it will still break of course. It was always one of the things that concerned me about the ANAFI was the lack of spare parts for sale, like legs and motors, etc. Anyway it survives another day and I'm just interested in the mortality rate of them from others and what you did about it?
Well I just came back from a large and smooth FlightPlan flight around local lake. It all went superbly. After flight still had 45% battery so why not do some cocky manual flight acrobatics. All going like a legend except for the one tree I should have considered sticking out more than the rest. ANAFI falls 10m, horrible thud. To my surprise no broken legs, they in fact folded in on one side. The B props all bent, the camera jumped out of its rubber shock absorber mounts and the little metal T thing fully out and was dangling on one side. I just brought home and managed to get camera bits all back together by unscrewing from underneath and reassembling (they supply the correct Torx tool in the propeller box) and replaced any twisted props. To my relief it fired up, hovered and camera tested out ok.
I can see Parrot have designed this thing to be quite sturdy and that delicate looking camera quite well suspended but with enough shock it will still break of course. It was always one of the things that concerned me about the ANAFI was the lack of spare parts for sale, like legs and motors, etc. Anyway it survives another day and I'm just interested in the mortality rate of them from others and what you did about it?
