Hello Guys!
I have been a long time lurker but never had an account so this is my first post.
I am currently in Shanghai, China and I was out filming in the late afternoon. I take out my drone out of my bag, on a bridge (error #1) and it tells me to calibrate my compass, once, I set the drone on the ground and before I take off, it tells me to re-calibrate my compass (this should have been a total warning sign, but with blue sky's and golden hour, something got the better of me. So I recalibrate, set the drone back down on the ground and again, re-calibrate the compass. ( Having spent so much time on this forum, I should of know that there was strong interference and moved somewhere else before I took off ) after the third time, I thought to maybe just call it and go home, but as I set it back down, it says all is good and I have strong GPS connections + signal. So I take off, hover a little, and start taking my shots, after 6:59 seconds, I get the first compass error and around 5 seconds later, it stops. I am a little worried at this point as around 10 flights before this one, my Mavic randomly had a motor issue right after takeoff and crashed (but that's another issue). Around 40 seconds after this I get a: Yaw Error and then a few seconds later a Compass Error. Exit P-GPS Mode; Yaw Error. Which at this point throws me into ATTI Mode (not a problem, I've flown ATTI multiple times) then a few seconds later: IMU heading error. Please restart the aircraft.; Yaw Error (now I'm freaking out as I am heading towards a building and my stick inputs are not transmitting to the drone whatsoever) I tell my spotter to locate the drone and make sure we still have clearance but after what seemed like an eternity, the controls came back and I came back in to land (after taking a few photos of the bridge we were on)
I have added the DJI Flight Log/Records of the flight.
What I want to know is (because there is a lot of mixed opinions on what to do on this forum)
1) Do i recalibrate the IMU?
2) Do I recalibrate the compass?
Thanks,
I have been a long time lurker but never had an account so this is my first post.
I am currently in Shanghai, China and I was out filming in the late afternoon. I take out my drone out of my bag, on a bridge (error #1) and it tells me to calibrate my compass, once, I set the drone on the ground and before I take off, it tells me to re-calibrate my compass (this should have been a total warning sign, but with blue sky's and golden hour, something got the better of me. So I recalibrate, set the drone back down on the ground and again, re-calibrate the compass. ( Having spent so much time on this forum, I should of know that there was strong interference and moved somewhere else before I took off ) after the third time, I thought to maybe just call it and go home, but as I set it back down, it says all is good and I have strong GPS connections + signal. So I take off, hover a little, and start taking my shots, after 6:59 seconds, I get the first compass error and around 5 seconds later, it stops. I am a little worried at this point as around 10 flights before this one, my Mavic randomly had a motor issue right after takeoff and crashed (but that's another issue). Around 40 seconds after this I get a: Yaw Error and then a few seconds later a Compass Error. Exit P-GPS Mode; Yaw Error. Which at this point throws me into ATTI Mode (not a problem, I've flown ATTI multiple times) then a few seconds later: IMU heading error. Please restart the aircraft.; Yaw Error (now I'm freaking out as I am heading towards a building and my stick inputs are not transmitting to the drone whatsoever) I tell my spotter to locate the drone and make sure we still have clearance but after what seemed like an eternity, the controls came back and I came back in to land (after taking a few photos of the bridge we were on)
I have added the DJI Flight Log/Records of the flight.
What I want to know is (because there is a lot of mixed opinions on what to do on this forum)
1) Do i recalibrate the IMU?
2) Do I recalibrate the compass?
Thanks,
