I'm a long time lurker, but never posted in the forum. I bought my MM a year ago, in late Oct. and enjoyed it quite a lot. I have over 100h of light, I lost a job and I was able to go out almost daily.
I have never crashed, I'm trying to be as safe as possible I had few close calls flying low over water (due to reflection I believe) but the drone was always responding to my sicks.
A few days back we went up north and I decided to record fall colors over a big canyon. I took off, area was clean of obstacles, and open, no wind, quite warm.
When I took off everything was good, I hover at 5m, after about a minute and 20 sec I decided to go up a bit to 10m drone reacted and went to 10-12m. Few seconds later drone started slowly descent by itself, I moved forward deeper into the canyon and hit the up stick and the drone went up as expected.
About 20 seconds later drone started to descent again by itself. I had my stick all the way up, but the drone was going down fast. It was completely not responding, I had a clear line of sight and the drone was not very far from me, the connection was great. the whole thing took maybe 15s and the drone hit the bottom of the canyon, it felt like the connection was lost, but I could see the screen etc. just the sticks were completely unresponsive.
There is no way to retrieve the drone, the area is completely inaccessible to people, I had an extended warranty but in order to use it, I need a drone which is at the bottom of the canyon.
Is there anyone here that could look at the log and tell me if I'm not hallucinating in what happened, It is hard to remember when things happen fast under stress, I want to check with the community if it was a drone fault, not an operator before I contact DJI.
Regards
P
I have never crashed, I'm trying to be as safe as possible I had few close calls flying low over water (due to reflection I believe) but the drone was always responding to my sicks.
A few days back we went up north and I decided to record fall colors over a big canyon. I took off, area was clean of obstacles, and open, no wind, quite warm.
When I took off everything was good, I hover at 5m, after about a minute and 20 sec I decided to go up a bit to 10m drone reacted and went to 10-12m. Few seconds later drone started slowly descent by itself, I moved forward deeper into the canyon and hit the up stick and the drone went up as expected.
About 20 seconds later drone started to descent again by itself. I had my stick all the way up, but the drone was going down fast. It was completely not responding, I had a clear line of sight and the drone was not very far from me, the connection was great. the whole thing took maybe 15s and the drone hit the bottom of the canyon, it felt like the connection was lost, but I could see the screen etc. just the sticks were completely unresponsive.
There is no way to retrieve the drone, the area is completely inaccessible to people, I had an extended warranty but in order to use it, I need a drone which is at the bottom of the canyon.
Is there anyone here that could look at the log and tell me if I'm not hallucinating in what happened, It is hard to remember when things happen fast under stress, I want to check with the community if it was a drone fault, not an operator before I contact DJI.
Regards
P