What I'm about to describe has happened twice on a Mavic Air 2 and twice on a Mini 3 Pro using the RC-N1 remote and the latest firmware and software at the time. This is out of hundreds of flights but it only takes one unlucky scenario to potentially destroy the drone.
- I fly the drone out. It's maybe only 500m or so away. Medium connection strength.
- Suddenly I lose the video feed, but the moving marker on the scrolling map is still responsive.
- I pilot the moving marker back down the red line towards home.
- Then I lose *all* controller connection with the drone.
- I would normally *expect* automatic reconnection with the controller midflight as it flies back closer to the controller and out of the area that had interference, but in this case it doesn't happen, even when the drone is right above the RTH location.
- The drone eventually returns to home above me and comes down to hover.
- Despite hovering literally inches from the controller, the controller still cannot reconnect to the drone.
- Rebooting the controller doesn't do anything.
- Restarting the DJI Fly App doesn't do anything.
- The drone eventually hovers until the battery is dead and lands / drops if it hits something on the way down.
- I can then immediately put in a fresh battery and the drone will connect normally with the remote on the next startup like nothing happens.
Is anyone aware of any jammers that can cause the drone to do something like this, where it 1) forces a disconnect with the controller and 2) prevents it from reconnecting while the drone is still in flight, regardless of how far away it is from the controller?
I *think* the only four times this has happened was in an area with possible people nearby (even rural areas with empty fields will have houses somewhere).
- I fly the drone out. It's maybe only 500m or so away. Medium connection strength.
- Suddenly I lose the video feed, but the moving marker on the scrolling map is still responsive.
- I pilot the moving marker back down the red line towards home.
- Then I lose *all* controller connection with the drone.
- I would normally *expect* automatic reconnection with the controller midflight as it flies back closer to the controller and out of the area that had interference, but in this case it doesn't happen, even when the drone is right above the RTH location.
- The drone eventually returns to home above me and comes down to hover.
- Despite hovering literally inches from the controller, the controller still cannot reconnect to the drone.
- Rebooting the controller doesn't do anything.
- Restarting the DJI Fly App doesn't do anything.
- The drone eventually hovers until the battery is dead and lands / drops if it hits something on the way down.
- I can then immediately put in a fresh battery and the drone will connect normally with the remote on the next startup like nothing happens.
Is anyone aware of any jammers that can cause the drone to do something like this, where it 1) forces a disconnect with the controller and 2) prevents it from reconnecting while the drone is still in flight, regardless of how far away it is from the controller?
I *think* the only four times this has happened was in an area with possible people nearby (even rural areas with empty fields will have houses somewhere).
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