My next question about this incident: Did having obstacle avoidance set to bypass cause this? Was the drone in a situation where it was detecting a obstacle above (which was not actually there) causing it to fly down? This is why my inputs to fly up were "bypassed"?
In that 6 second window...
Initial fly over the pond at 11:35 flight time I can see IMU heigh as -101.7 feet (maybe because take off home point was a higher elevation?) and VPS 15.1 feet. I can confirm VPS height was pretty accurate at this point. I could visually see the gap between drone and water but it was lower...
19:27.4 is the point when I stopped controller input (released both sticks). I could see the drone looking from a downward angle and I'd say there was at least 10 meters between it and the pond. This was the point I saw without input it was going down.
19:28.4 I counteract this motion by...
Drone was in Normal mode at the time, I could see the gap between the drone and the water from my lookout point when it started to fly down by itself.
This happened in a open valley, approximately 287 meters away from me. I maintained visual line of site until it hit the water. Battery at the...
Yesterday I was flying my mini 3 pro and it decided to no input descend. I realized it was going AWOL and hard up pressed the left control stick to counteract the steady drop but no luck.
Last image I saw was murky brown water on my RC controller. I went to the storm pond and it is disgusting...
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