H501A Semi Flyaway Buzzed me and chopped part of my Nose off! Be Safe !!!

[justjarhead]

Now I know how the Wasp felt in the Drone video of the guy going after the Wasp. My H501A decided to buzz me in GPS mode. After it hit me, I Turned of controller and the darn thing just ascended and hovered perfectly 30 feet away. Until I hit RTH again it just sat there hovering away.

Other than having the tip of my nose chopped off and a 6 month healing cycle I am ok as can be expected. Other cuts on nose, chin and ear where I ducked down. I was lucky I was wearing glasses like I normally do when flying

It just makes no sense since I test flew it the day before in the same location with the same symptoms compass toilet bowing and Atlhold wackiness that I had experienced before thus awaiting parts.

I figured I would test the antenna swap that I bought the part for and put it in, reassembled, and calibrated the 4 calibrations,

1) Sticks in mode 2 ✔

2) Compass 1& 2 passed ✔

3) Horizontal (IMU) passed ✔

4) Rotational Calibration (no rotation on takeoff or hover.)✔

5) 11 satellites on quad and 8 on controller ✔

I took off with head pointed away from me as per my usual practice, hovered, and all was fine. GPS switch up, took off with rssi display already turned on, I flew out 10 meters by 10 meters and still hovered properly. I then looked at display to get base reading before flying further away and checking readings at 10, 20, 30, 50 meters and so on until FPV was lost or I didn't care.

Then out of the blue with no control movement it heads at me while I was looking at display. It somehow cranked up a full throttle and buzzed me and hit me before I could react by ducking and turning off control.

It then moved off on LOS, and hovered for the time I went into garage and house to deal with my face.( At least 5 minutes) It just sat there hovering 10 meters up or so until I manually landed it with the control turned back on.

All of its behavior went against what I know it should do but I am quite sure I did not touch contols while looking at display and that it was like being attacked. By a bee swarm.

On LOS I would have expected it to land but it just hovered 10 meters from where I was hit and at 10 meters high which were the same height and distance from me that it was hovering before it buzzed me.

I didn't even turn on video the sequence went so fast from hover, check display. Get buzzed, turn off control so it would land and then deal with my injuries. The damn thing just hovered until I manually landed it with throttle stick and control in left hand.

Where I was standing where I got buzzed looks like a war zone with a trail of blood up to my house.

[justjarhead]

Pilot error ?

[mikroll]

Congratulations! You have just qualified and joined the "Tree Hugger club" . tree strikes building crash , and pond dunks also count but self destruction tops it. I too cut myself with a helicopter nose job.

[justjarhead]

My nose i healing much quicker than I thought it would Out of the Blue from about 20 feet away while hovering my H501A attacks me. I don't believe I touched the sticks but my nose did take it. Lucky I ducked. After I was hit the H501A hovers 50 ft away from where I expect it to land on RTH. I just don't trust these things at all an wife wants me to wear a helmet now.