Recent content by esm123

I've done it on a moving boat. It was not that easy! My buddy was holding the drone to take off. I throttled up and told him to let go. It worked. Landing was tricky because I had to maintain the same speed as the boat for him to catch it. I did it twice, but I don't recommend it.

That's how mine was before. Not sure if you've ever flown your mavic in other countries. But every time I take it out of the country, it won't take off unless I calibrate the compass. This time, I flew it in Peru and went back to the US. A week or so later, I updated the software and it required...

That is all the video I took. Your description seems correct. When i was controlling it, it would receive the input but it was also moving on its own.

Okay thanks everyone. Theres A good chance DJI will have to send it back to me. (I don't think it's repairable or atleast it would be cheaper to replace).. if they send it back I will upload the DAT files from the aircraft. I had no idea it had internal storage for flight records outside of the...

Okay - I assume that will fall under pilot error from DJI's perspective. From what you guys can see, is there any possibility of software (since I had just updated it) or other defect that would have caused what happened?

I think so. The floor seems like concrete.

I took off from the pool area. If you see the link of the log, it has a picture of where I took off. I calibrated it the compass there.

Posted the video! Will take it down later - it's unlisted. Sorry for the language!

I did initially move sideways after going up vertically but as soon as I noticed the mavic started to move on its own..I stopped and then it went all haywire. Is that what you are seeing?

I've flown in the parking lot across the bridge in the picture in between the three skyscrapers many times and I never had an issue.

I take that back..the motor current happened at the last moments. It had crashed at that point. What is speed error? This is becoming more confusing.

Is it possible that one of the motors stopped working (motor current) and therefore created the erratic spinning and movement of the mavic?

Me either..just reading from the error logs. Seems to be the only thing that started it. Gps mismatch.

I guess you can call it that? It's above a pool floor..? I calibrated it by picking it up mid air and turning it around..until I got the green lights. It flew just fine the first few 15 seconds or so

Seems to me like there was a gps issue.. maybe some kind of reflection bouncing off the buildings? But I still don't understand why the drone would start turning around and moving on its own. The speeds are insane 24 mph without input