Recent content by Juice79

Thank you for the very informative analysis. Lesson learned, and I was fortunate enough to not have lost or damaged my drone. Thanks again Erik

Can the compass error have been caused by my error and not having performed the proper pre-flight procedures. Note: I did not have to calibrate the compass prior to take-off on this flight.

Thank you for the informative post. According to what your saying I had a good gps at about 2:10. The uncommanded acceleration was at about 2:30. I completely understand it was my error to take off without a home point or strong gps signal established. However, I am still looking for a...

That uncommanded acceleration is what I'm trying to determine the cause of. That was what caused it to hit the side of a building. Thanks for all your help guys Erik

How can you see how many satellites you are connected to before a flight?

I now know that I was flying without GPS. However, the craft took off at full throttle away from me (without any input from me) while it was hovering stable and when I tried to control it by pushing the controls on the opposite direction it was traveling it was not responsive.

Hopefully others can chime in if that is what would cause a flyaway. If so, lesson learned!!

Hey guys hoping for some help on this forum. Experienced my first fly away today after a few months of ownership. Luckily it just scraped the side of a building and I was able to regain site of the craft and control. It looks like it happened about 2:30 seconds into the flight. The log says...