Recent content by SteveH

Update: I contacted DJI and asked if they would look over the info from this thread hoping that the compass or yaw anomalies would be enough to warrant repair under warranty. After about a week I received an email that the damage would not be covered under warranty. I paid for the repair and am...

My impression was that it moved off laterally 10 feet or more before I tried to gain control. Without the RC connected is that also why it's not possible to enable Vision Positioning and activating some of the other settings?

As for yaw oscillations I can't attest but I do know that it at least yawed in one direction as it also moved approximately 5 to 10 feet laterally before I tried to gain control with the sticks. Thanks for all your analysis, now I've got to somehow convince DJI to at least look at your...

I will whole heartily agree with panic! It was dusk on July 4th. I thought it was going to go fly away from into the night!

It went left and aft initially. If I remember correctly it was a clockwise yaw at the same time.

Sadly I can't remember which way I did either at this point. Normally I hand launch with the auto take off method but this time I launched from the concrete because of the gimbal issue I wanted to launch from a flat surface. I don't remember if I did auto take off or manual.

I have never switched from mode 2 to any other mode.

I'm very perplexed as to why it appears I was flying in mode 3. I flew just minutes before this crash but landed because the gimbal apparently had not calibrated correctly and was tilted in the horizontal axis. So I landed, only shut down the Mavic, left the controller and iPhone on, restarted...

Thank you, thank you, thank you for checking this out. I've went over this event so many times in my head wondering what happened or what did I do. So it appears I did at first try to land it by full down throttle and when it didn't seem to respond I attempted forced motor shut down. Maybe I...

I like your suggestion but actually I started with toy drones before I ever purchased the Mavic. When the drone takes off flying in opposite directions from stick inputs you will be surprised at how quickly you loose control of it. Especially when it starts erratic flight straight from lift off.

Thanks for analyzing for me. I think the biggest thing I've learned is not to launch off of concrete. I'm not sure if it ever goes zooming off on it's own again in the future if I can leave my hands off the controls rather than trying to save it.

After reading several other Mavic's randomly flying off I always do a compass calibration before each and every flight. After this episode I'll never fly off of concrete either.