MikeinMO's latest activity
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Hi~ Pilot error? yes and no.... Yes: the pilot took off his drone with several high risk element: gas station (I assume with cars and flammable fuel there), no GPS when take off, narrow initial airspace to confirm the status of the drone... -
Looks like the takeoff location was a setup for failure, vehicles, pumps, concrete, overhead awning...Yikes. Add in a pilot in a hurry and you've got the makings of an instructional video "recipe for disaster" "how to lose/crash your drone in...
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Just a side note about a possible yaw error due to a power on in magnetic interference that deflects the compass during the IMU initialization... The consequence of a yaw error (mainly a flyaway) will only happen if the drone have a proper GPS...
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You can see where that started to occur here in Flight Reader: Agreed. Once the drone was in the air, the crash was likely unavoidable given the confined flying area. The pilot's confusing story was probably due to the magnetic interference...
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That sounds like it could have been a reinforced concrete surface? ... which could be the source of the magnetic interference. The first indications of the collision are in the pitch, roll and yaw data from 11.9 seconds. But the compass starts...
