Recent content by nicoatridge

I can't say I have got to the bottom of the issue with my drone, but I switched phones and it now works, from a Galaxy S21 Ultra back to an S8. If I revert to the S21 Ultra the problem returns.

No, I have tried to fly it in a field, in my living room, in a car park in a park... transmission is always lost almost immediately. One other weird thing is that the camera view freezes in monochrome, but will reactivate in colour and reframe the actual image view when I take a picture, which...

After the crash i flew it quite gingerly, but with some success. i got some great footage. I didn't use it for about 9 months, and I've heard said that a long lay off can screw up the drone. i also updated to all the latest firmware etc before I tried to fly it, so not sure if it would have...

Thanks for this. i did upload the logs when the Mavic 2 went loony tunes a couple of years ago, but the current problems are not associated with the flight itself, but with the lost signal. Surely the flight logs will not explain why the drone flew without a signal a few metres from the pilot?

I have three DJI drones. I haven't flown my Mavic 2 Zoom for a while, so updated the firmware and took it out for a spin. Almost immediately the drone took off, I got a lost signal message. It would intermittently pick up the signal but the camera image was frozen - but weirdly would unfreeze if...

Hi, thank you for your really enlightening information. I am pretty certain that the problems were not caused by malfunctions in the drone(s) as they have both flown before and since quite predictably. I have to say I was quite spooked by these incidents. I am intrigued by the possibility that...

Hi, the area I used for take-off was just an area of bitumen, away from nearby buildings, although relatively close to the power lines. I charge the drone battery near a speaker, but not adjacent.The take-off went as planned and I managed to take a shot I was after. The drone just then decided...

Thanks for that. I took off from a spot around twenty metres from a railway station on the shores of a lake surrounded by vineyards and a few buildings. I notice that the flight path overflew the overhead electric cables of the railway line, but I have overflown the same area with a Mavic Pro...

Done, thanks.

Here's the story of the crash. It's a new drone. Worked fine on Saturday. Became possessed on Sunday...

Here is the flight log. The drone ascended vertically fine then just took over control and flew off without me doing anything, crashing a few hundred feet away. I managed to retrieve the drone, but nervous about flying it again unless I can work out what happened. Flight time Altitude Home...

Thanks, that's useful. I can see the flight on my log, the drone just took off on a parabolic route into a distant building and seems to have ignored the sensors. I accept that there was an internal logic that made it do that, but it is clearly a bug for it to just go off and do that. I was...

I have had three bad experiences with Mavic drones in three weeks and am a bit baffled, and nervous about continuing with drones. All three experiences happened in Switzerland. I have flown Mavic drones all over the world, but all three bad experiences happened in Switzerland. First was with a...

There are a bunch of web sites that say where you can and can't fly in the UK. UK law generally lets you overfly people's property as long as you don't cause a nuisance and follow CAA regulations. So the question is where can you take off and land. A lot of good places to take off are...