I took my Mavic Mini hiking to a waterfall last weekend. Getting a good GPS lock is difficult in a waterfall amphitheater, so I got it flying and hovered it as high as it would let me (hoping that would be more likely to get a signal up higher). I let it sit there for several minutes while it attempted to find satellites. When I thought it had a good lock, I started the video and started moving up the waterfall. When it got to the top of the waterfall, it did a corkscrew turn and flew into a tree. I was able to get it out of the tree, however it fell and broke the gimbal.
I've spent hours trying to figure out what happened so that I can learn from this crash, but I'm still a little perplexed. As best I can tell, my guess is that due to the poor GPS signal it had, it encountered some kind of wind vortex at the top of the waterfall (which made it do the corkscrew) that blew it into the tree.
I've viewed the flight log using airdata.com and I've attempted to process the .DAT file from the SDCard using both CSVView and DatCon, but due to the extremely large size of that file I've been unable to glean any insights from it. I was trying to just cut out the last portion of the .csv file it produced but have been unable to figure out exactly where to cut it. I've followed the steps in the sticky post and continue to try and glean useful information but feel like I'm not making much progress at this point.
Any tips or hints or insights from the flight log would be appreciated. Thank you!
I've spent hours trying to figure out what happened so that I can learn from this crash, but I'm still a little perplexed. As best I can tell, my guess is that due to the poor GPS signal it had, it encountered some kind of wind vortex at the top of the waterfall (which made it do the corkscrew) that blew it into the tree.
I've viewed the flight log using airdata.com and I've attempted to process the .DAT file from the SDCard using both CSVView and DatCon, but due to the extremely large size of that file I've been unable to glean any insights from it. I was trying to just cut out the last portion of the .csv file it produced but have been unable to figure out exactly where to cut it. I've followed the steps in the sticky post and continue to try and glean useful information but feel like I'm not making much progress at this point.
Any tips or hints or insights from the flight log would be appreciated. Thank you!