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Horizon going down (=gimbal moving up) while accelerating?

swoermck

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Hi,

just realized that the horizon will slowly move down while accelerating.

If you look at the clouds in the following pictures: first while hovering:

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Now when finally flying at cruise speed (6 m/s):

moving copy.png

you can see that the gimbal must have moved up for this effect. After reaching cruising speed the horizon will stay perfectly on level.

I would expect this the other way round: while accelerating, the Mavic will point down (so horizon will move up) - looks for me that in my case the gimbal is compensating too much for this effect?

Is this normal behaviour of the old Mavic Pro, or maybe a re-calibration will help? Never realized this before, but looking into old videos (2 years ago), watching very carefully I can see this in some videos as well: acceleration: gimbal moving up, constant speed no movement.

I am flying with a quite old firmware (.900 from June 2017) - maybe worth upgrading? Although I had no issues otherwise with this firmware.

Stefan
 

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