Hi guys, new member but long time pilot here.
So I must sadly report my Drone is gone (for now). Due to legal reasons it has a sign with my name and address, but since it droppen into a valley about 400m from my starting position there was no way to get there.
I watched a lot of "fly away" videos and read some articles and posts, but none really describe what happened to me. I'm very careful when using expensive equipment and before flying I go through my checklist and when I'm at a new place I calibrate the compass. I even go as far as to take off my watch to not disturb the process (probably overkill but gives me peace of mind).
So I took off, flew about 120m high and 400m out to get a good view. Suddenly I saw that the camera was going crazy. I assumed that it was the gimbal resetting. But then the aircraft lost height and a second later the feed cut off. I waited for 30m, maybe the RTH kicks in and it was just a serviere bug where multiple systems failed at once. But nothing happened. I sadly had my back to the drone to do a flyover and when I turned around the drone was already gone.
The weather was amazing, about 20 celsius so icing could not have been the issue. I was about 1800m above sea level, which far below the drones max altitude.
The only idea I have is a battery fault, but would the motors cut out before the video feed ?
Since at 1:10:90 the cell deviation is at 0.001 V, at 11:00:00 it's at 0.056V with Cell 2 loosing 0.075 V.
I'm running Go 4 at v.4.3.12 and the remote at 01.04.0500 (recent), I'm very sure that the aircraft was on the newest version as well, since I always update them at the same time.
Attached you'll find the video clip, the .txt and .dat flight records.
The online viewer is here: DJI Flight Log Viewer - PhantomHelp.com
What could have been the problem ?
So I must sadly report my Drone is gone (for now). Due to legal reasons it has a sign with my name and address, but since it droppen into a valley about 400m from my starting position there was no way to get there.
I watched a lot of "fly away" videos and read some articles and posts, but none really describe what happened to me. I'm very careful when using expensive equipment and before flying I go through my checklist and when I'm at a new place I calibrate the compass. I even go as far as to take off my watch to not disturb the process (probably overkill but gives me peace of mind).
So I took off, flew about 120m high and 400m out to get a good view. Suddenly I saw that the camera was going crazy. I assumed that it was the gimbal resetting. But then the aircraft lost height and a second later the feed cut off. I waited for 30m, maybe the RTH kicks in and it was just a serviere bug where multiple systems failed at once. But nothing happened. I sadly had my back to the drone to do a flyover and when I turned around the drone was already gone.
The weather was amazing, about 20 celsius so icing could not have been the issue. I was about 1800m above sea level, which far below the drones max altitude.
The only idea I have is a battery fault, but would the motors cut out before the video feed ?
Since at 1:10:90 the cell deviation is at 0.001 V, at 11:00:00 it's at 0.056V with Cell 2 loosing 0.075 V.
I'm running Go 4 at v.4.3.12 and the remote at 01.04.0500 (recent), I'm very sure that the aircraft was on the newest version as well, since I always update them at the same time.
Attached you'll find the video clip, the .txt and .dat flight records.
The online viewer is here: DJI Flight Log Viewer - PhantomHelp.com
What could have been the problem ?