Found my lost Mavic!!!!

[mryeje]

So you did. The relevant DAT file was FLY101. Your mission requested a constant elevation of 45 m (148 ft) above the takeoff point, which was at 240 ft MSL. The following plot shows ground elevation and flight altitude above MSL for the flight.

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As you can see, the aircraft held the requested 45 m altitude pretty well, but it was only around 70 ft AGL at the end of the flight when it hit a tree. The problem was that the waypoint elevations that you had programmed were too low for the flight path requested.

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Wow, never thought there was that much change in elevation! I live near the top of the hill where I programmed the flight from but I can't argue with the data. Thanks for the analysis. Im lucky to have the drone back and I guess its not DJI's fault after all. Thanks for taking the time. I was convinced that the battery failed because the feed cut out way before the crash and the controller had a file called fatal.log. This sums it up. Im glad you did this for me because I was going to ship the drone to DJI but I wont now. You saved me time and money, thanks again!

 

[sar104]

Wow, never thought there was that much change in elevation! I live near the top of the hill where I programmed the flight from but I can't argue with the data. Thanks for the analysis. Im lucky to have the drone back and I guess its not DJI's fault after all. Thanks for taking the time. I was convinced that the battery failed because the feed cut out way before the crash and the controller had a file called fatal.log. This sums it up. Im glad you did this for me because I was going to ship the drone to DJI but I wont now. You saved me time and money, thanks again!

It's definitely worth plotting the elevation profile in Google Earth or equivalent before planning a waypoint mission.

 

[mryeje]

It's definitely worth plotting the elevation profile in Google Earth or equivalent before planning a waypoint mission.

I will keep that in mind if I ever fly a way point mission again...

 

[Lil' DronePilot]

How long ago did you find it? Have you been flying it for a while? Im reluctant to send it to DJI because it works and I dont trust them. I'm just worried that something could eventually corrode and short. Where the foot broke off the light above it is very dim now.

I found it a few months back. I want to say August. I thought of sending it to DJI but then I was like nah! I took the advise of many in the forum and test fly myself. I found me an empty field and flew it like I stole it, hovered like I was bored, back, front, up and down, RTH, max altitude, cycled through 4 batteries, you name it, I’ve done it. I only changed the battery initially and after all my test flights, I changed propellers recently; Still, it flies like a charm. Trust me I dogged my found MP as I had a spare MP to takenits place if it failed. I now have two MPs but only fly the one I lost and then found. Camera works well too. I have zero problems.