just picked it up from Shop-they replaced camera- (in other post)
I took it up to test out and it was a little cloudy and windy but had plenty gps. All was fine until I took up to about 300’ and was flying around when all of a sudden I got a calibrate compass signal and all of a sudden she just started to fly away. I was panicking too much to look and check anything. I finally got some control but was not locked on satellites. So I think it wasn’t flying away but being blown away. As soon as I would let sticks go it would drift in same direction quickly. I then brought it down and regained everything and landed that sucker.
I’m not exactly sure what happened but Is it possible that with all the clouds I lost all satellites and the reason that it drifted? As i said, I panicked and didn’t read any of the displays. Was concentrating on visual.
Not sure about compass!
On my old P3s- I could go right into the settings and always calibrate (needed or not) and I always did. Am I blind, but I don’t see that option. I tried before the flight but it said normal and I didn’t see an option for doing it anyways. (I know, read the manual)
I honestly thought my brand new Mavic plus the extra $400.00 in a new camera was just going to keep flying away. It got about 300’ away before I was able to get control. Scary!
Anyway to check a flight record to see if it gives me a better story and some insight of what went wrong or better said, what I did wrong?
Thanks
Mike
I took it up to test out and it was a little cloudy and windy but had plenty gps. All was fine until I took up to about 300’ and was flying around when all of a sudden I got a calibrate compass signal and all of a sudden she just started to fly away. I was panicking too much to look and check anything. I finally got some control but was not locked on satellites. So I think it wasn’t flying away but being blown away. As soon as I would let sticks go it would drift in same direction quickly. I then brought it down and regained everything and landed that sucker.
I’m not exactly sure what happened but Is it possible that with all the clouds I lost all satellites and the reason that it drifted? As i said, I panicked and didn’t read any of the displays. Was concentrating on visual.
Not sure about compass!
On my old P3s- I could go right into the settings and always calibrate (needed or not) and I always did. Am I blind, but I don’t see that option. I tried before the flight but it said normal and I didn’t see an option for doing it anyways. (I know, read the manual)
I honestly thought my brand new Mavic plus the extra $400.00 in a new camera was just going to keep flying away. It got about 300’ away before I was able to get control. Scary!
Anyway to check a flight record to see if it gives me a better story and some insight of what went wrong or better said, what I did wrong?
Thanks
Mike