Hi,
I'm currently on vacation in Fiji and have just been flying my Mavic Pro in and around the beach. I have owned my drone for 2 years so I am not a novice flyer.
I flew my drone approximately 40m into the air and flew it out over the sea around 200m away to take pictures of my friends snorkeling just off the reef.
My drone was 100% fully charged and was connected via GPS to 18 satellites. The weather conditions were perfect clear blue sky with minimal wind. As I flew my drone out over the sea in sport mode, to bring the drone to a stop I let go of the controls.
As I let go of the controls, the drone immediately started spiralling out of control and crashed into the sea. At no point were there any error messages displayed or connection issues. Nothing like this has ever happened to me before. I was also not able to retrieve the drone as it was simply too deep to recover.
I wasn't recording at the time however the flight log has saved to my account.
I've contacted DJI and low and behold, as the drone is now out of warranty there's nothing they can do. They won't even conduct any analysis to establish what exactly happened.
I'm hoping if there's something on this forum that could kindly establish what went wrong.
I've attached the flight log below.
Regards,
Chris
I'm currently on vacation in Fiji and have just been flying my Mavic Pro in and around the beach. I have owned my drone for 2 years so I am not a novice flyer.
I flew my drone approximately 40m into the air and flew it out over the sea around 200m away to take pictures of my friends snorkeling just off the reef.
My drone was 100% fully charged and was connected via GPS to 18 satellites. The weather conditions were perfect clear blue sky with minimal wind. As I flew my drone out over the sea in sport mode, to bring the drone to a stop I let go of the controls.
As I let go of the controls, the drone immediately started spiralling out of control and crashed into the sea. At no point were there any error messages displayed or connection issues. Nothing like this has ever happened to me before. I was also not able to retrieve the drone as it was simply too deep to recover.
I wasn't recording at the time however the flight log has saved to my account.
I've contacted DJI and low and behold, as the drone is now out of warranty there's nothing they can do. They won't even conduct any analysis to establish what exactly happened.
I'm hoping if there's something on this forum that could kindly establish what went wrong.
I've attached the flight log below.
Regards,
Chris