Last week at a family gathering I launched my Air 2s, flew around my brother's yard a bit then offered the controller to my nephew-in-law (NIL), a fairly capable drone pilot from what I understood. So he's flying around the yard for a few minutes - doing some circles and other another manoeuvres. Before I looked away briefly I saw him swinging the drone side-to-side in a rocking motion about 6 feet off the ground which was making me nervous. No sooner did I turn my head to talk to my brother than I heard the drone hit the rock wall of my brother's house. It pulled away from the wall briefly then seemed to hug it as it slid down into the rock garden 4 feet below, grinding the props on the wall all the way down, landing upside down. I turned to look at my NIL and he was frozen with a stunned look on his face as he handed me the controller and I pulled the sticks to shut off the engine which had continued to run. NIL claims the controller became unresponsive suddenly causing the crash
Damage was fortunately limited to the props and the nose. Luckily, after replacing the props the drone still flies the same but it seems the sensor system was damaged by the nose hit since it constantly beeps as if there are obstacles present - even when I turn off the obstacle avoidance. Control is now somewhat affected with obstacle avoidance on so I solved that by turning off obstacle avoidance and turning the sound way down. The gimbal looks undamaged but won't finish re-calibration without me giving it a nudge with my finger. Result is that sometimes I have to adjust it in the air in order to get the horizon to look even after panning. There are no software error messages.
Anyway...I'm very curious as to how it happened and have attached the .txt file from my iPhone. I tried to find the .dat file but it appears it has been overwritten or deleted for some reason (I do not sync my flight data to the DJI server) since the folder that contains the .dat files only shows the last flight I flew.
Any insight would be appreciated.
Damage was fortunately limited to the props and the nose. Luckily, after replacing the props the drone still flies the same but it seems the sensor system was damaged by the nose hit since it constantly beeps as if there are obstacles present - even when I turn off the obstacle avoidance. Control is now somewhat affected with obstacle avoidance on so I solved that by turning off obstacle avoidance and turning the sound way down. The gimbal looks undamaged but won't finish re-calibration without me giving it a nudge with my finger. Result is that sometimes I have to adjust it in the air in order to get the horizon to look even after panning. There are no software error messages.
Anyway...I'm very curious as to how it happened and have attached the .txt file from my iPhone. I tried to find the .dat file but it appears it has been overwritten or deleted for some reason (I do not sync my flight data to the DJI server) since the folder that contains the .dat files only shows the last flight I flew.
Any insight would be appreciated.