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All heights are relative to the homepoint. Sea level is completely irrelevant. Your drone has no idea what sea level is.

Your drone does not know what sea level is. It only knows that home = 0 feet No ... it makes no difference whether the height is + or -. How so? It shouldn't make any difference at all.

Yes .. if you can't show the recorded flight data, DJI won't have any way to tell what happened to the drone. Losing signal won't cause a drone to fly off into the distance, so there's something more to this incident. If you can give a more detailed explanation, someone here might be able to...

Considering it was an academic paper, it's appropriate for the author to use the correct and specific terminology. There is no shortage of accounts of obstacle avoidance stopping DJI drones when flying towards a low, bright sun. But that's not what the OA experienced. Reflected glare from the...

I guess my drone should have fallen from the sky because the detail in bottom left is obscured by glare on the water. I've never heard anything so stupid. Come back sometime when you are sober. There's no point discussing anything with someone apparently stoned out of his mind.

I missed the part in that journal article explaining why they lost control of their drone. I missed it because the paper isn't about drones crashing at all. It's about the difficulty shooting high quality images through sun glare on the water's surface. To suggest that problems getting good...

Better yet ... how about explaining the way you think that the sun and water caused the incident. I've been flying in the sun and over water and investigating drone incidents for more than 10 years and know of no way that the incident described could be related to the vague concept you've...

Guess again. Neither the sun or water could possibly cause the incident described.

?? If you were 100 ft over the sea, why would losing GPS be unsurprising? That has no impact on flight. As usual, the recorded flight data is needed to tell what happened. To post your flight data there are a couple of options ... 1. Go to DJI Flight Log Viewer | Phantom Help Follow the...

Here's what that flight looks like: https://www.phantomhelp.com/logviewer/20251211Z3TS4ETAUENHYI4UFBAW7XYP18YAGBSJ Is that the right one? It shows a crash at 42.68211 -74.96542

With an automated mission, we have no joystick inputs showing pilot actions. All we can tell is what you already said, that the flyer set things up so that the drone was going to fly straight through the tower to commence the mission.

No, there is no setting to make the drone startup by putting the joysticks in the CSC position. It sounds like either the controller does not work or the controller has not been linked to the drone.

How are you suggesting that static electricity build up can cause or contribute to an incident like this? If this was genuinely an issue for drone flyers, wouldn't we have heard of hundreds of incidents just like it?

Yes

You've been on about this silly idea for years now and it's still silly and illogically paranoid. No-one has given any indication of any intention to confiscate drones. If that's how it usually happens, perhaps you can remind us of a few times it actually happened?