Did one of the compasses on my mavic air fail?

[Jordaneer]

I was looking at the sensor state of my mavic air while flying it and I noticed only one compass showed up, does that mean that the other one failed? Two Gyros and accelerometers show upis this bad? Does it affect how it flies if there is only one


this showing both accelerometers and gyros

 

[Detritalgeo]

I think there is only 1 compass on the air unlike the Mavic pro, 2 pro, 2 zoom or P4

 

[Jordaneer]

I think there is only 1 compass on the air unlike the Mavic pro, 2 pro, 2 zoom or P4

Okay that makes more sense, I looked it up and there is only 1 compass, which seems strange since it has 2 gyros and accelerometers

 

[Deleted member 94047]

Yes, the MA has only one compass but two gyros and two accelerometers; I guess the compass data is shared between the two IMUs? You know what's even more odd, the new MA2 has only one IMU - meaning it has only one compass, one gyro, and one accelerometer (progress?)

 

[old man mavic]

@Doppler there are many reasons for having only one of each,the main one is the amount of space inside the drone,as the drone gets smaller ,then with the added sensors it then uses some of the battery power to power them ,all this reduces the flight time incrementally there is also the fact that the actual components have improved as well which means that redundancy is not so critical ,and i think that the two of everything,was part of giving the consumer confidence ,when it came to spending what was and still is ,a large investment on such a product,in all the time i have had my MPP it has never had need for the extra components to be utilised,and finally,it is common practice in manned aircraft to have two of critical systems,and components in case of failure ,and they were also following good practice