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    Mavic pro crashed immediately after take off

    I can't help myself from wondering if I had slammed that 'pause' button on remote the moment when I noticed that something is not right, would it have made drone hover or it would have kept trying to adjust itself according to new compass readings?
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    Mavic pro crashed immediately after take off

    I guess I will have to swallow this bitter pill and think through my next steps in drone world. Thank you all for taking time and analysing this crash. Such a great community.
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    Mavic pro crashed immediately after take off

    Did you also wait for the RC Controller & 'voice' to tell you that the GPS positioning had updated before you did the precision take-off?? Do you mean "the home point has been recorded"? Correct me if I'm wrong but you can't do precision take off without that? Truth to be told, as you can see...
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    Mavic pro crashed immediately after take off

    I did "precision" take off and without any input drone started to drift away instead of climbing to 6m. According to flight logs drone was facing north but I had placed it facing south. When you watch the embedded video then it seems that drone flew backwards but it was flying onward and when it...
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    gimbal failure

    Did all these 3 steps but the problem didn't go away. Bought Mavic(refurbished) about 2 months ago, so theoretically it should go under warranty but as summer has just started then I don't want to send my drone to them. :) btw, it's not just gimbal. Right before gimbal starts reset camera is...
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    gimbal failure

    Problem? Gimbal start to re calibrate mid air(?). I have two cases and gimbal movement seems to follow same pattern. Was unit in a crash? no What have you tried so far? gimbal recalibration while not flying What device are you using ( iphone , ipad, Samsung , etc)? huawei p20 What firmware...