Hello all! 2 days ago I crashed my drone. Long story. Anyways I can’t find the dang thing. In my flight log it shows the yellow flight path and then shows where the path stops and the drone continues. Why did the yellow stop? Is it estimating where it landed? How accurate is this? It even shows directionally where it was facing
Also how can I download my flight log? When I export to csv it says successful and then even tells me where on the iPhone it saved it. I can’t find the dang thing to get it to my computer. Please don’t tell me iTunes… it’s 2022–how can I get my flight log?
It was a
Mavic 2 pro
figured out flight plan.
DJI Flight Log Viewer - PhantomHelp.com
You didn't wait to get GPS reception before flying away from the home point.
Perhaps the the skyview at the starting location was blocked?
Flying without GPS limited your height to 5 metres and prevents climbing higher.
It also means that your drone was flying without horizontal position holding.
You didn't get good GPS reception until 1:27 and the drone was finally able to record a homepoint where the drone was at that time ... not where you launched from.
But there was a bigger problem as well.
You must have launched from a site where magnetic interference caused a yaw error.
When the drone finally got GPS reception, this started to act and fly the drone on an accelerating curved flight path, without you touching the right stick.
The conflicting data form compass and GPS caused by the yaw error meant that the drone was not able to hold position and as it detected motion, each attempt to correct flew the drone further and faster on a smooth curved flightpath.
Do you remember what direction the drone was pointing at takeoff?
The data shows that it was facing northwest (317°), but this will be wrong.
What was the surface you launched from?
When signal was lost the drone was in high speed curved flight and out of your control which is typical in a yaw error.
You had climbed to 170 ft higher than the launch point.
When the data ends the drone was still flying and had not crashed.
It had plenty of battery and would have kept flying until the battery reached critical low voltage level.
It is not possible to tell where it ended up.