Hi Guys,
Purchased a Mavic Pro about 2 weeks ago, and I've been flying it in a big open grassy field since then to make sure that I am very familiar with its operation, safe control and flight modes before I focus too much on taking great photos and video with it.
I have had a strange thing occur to me several times now that I had previously put down to pilot error, but I'm beginning to think is a fault.
Sometimes when I take off using the DJI go app auto takeoff feature, The drone will take off, and raise beyond the 1.5 meters, and keep going and going. VPS or Clearance on the controller will display an incorrect figure like 0.5m. Because the drone keeps rising, instinct is to pull the left stick down, which then begins the drone "Landing" which, from 15m or so, takes a very long time.
At one stage, the drone was in the air at around 50m or so, I pulled the stick down to descend, it appeared to not respond, and then started "Landing", and coming down very, very slowly.
Also, at one point when I was trying to land, the drone was physically 0.5m from the ground, but read 4.5m, and as a result of this, would not properly land. --- I ended up flying it higher and catching it.
This seems to be intermittent, and is more likely to happen in the first flight in a session.
I've had it happen to me on two days now, both days were nice sunny days, with light to medium winds if that has any bearing.
I would think if this was a calibration issue, it would be more consistent. VPS seems to work properly most flights.
I'm about to start looking for logs from today.
Ideas? Do I have a faulty Mavic here?
Purchased a Mavic Pro about 2 weeks ago, and I've been flying it in a big open grassy field since then to make sure that I am very familiar with its operation, safe control and flight modes before I focus too much on taking great photos and video with it.
I have had a strange thing occur to me several times now that I had previously put down to pilot error, but I'm beginning to think is a fault.
Sometimes when I take off using the DJI go app auto takeoff feature, The drone will take off, and raise beyond the 1.5 meters, and keep going and going. VPS or Clearance on the controller will display an incorrect figure like 0.5m. Because the drone keeps rising, instinct is to pull the left stick down, which then begins the drone "Landing" which, from 15m or so, takes a very long time.
At one stage, the drone was in the air at around 50m or so, I pulled the stick down to descend, it appeared to not respond, and then started "Landing", and coming down very, very slowly.
Also, at one point when I was trying to land, the drone was physically 0.5m from the ground, but read 4.5m, and as a result of this, would not properly land. --- I ended up flying it higher and catching it.
This seems to be intermittent, and is more likely to happen in the first flight in a session.
I've had it happen to me on two days now, both days were nice sunny days, with light to medium winds if that has any bearing.
I would think if this was a calibration issue, it would be more consistent. VPS seems to work properly most flights.
I'm about to start looking for logs from today.
Ideas? Do I have a faulty Mavic here?