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Having flown my Mavic Pro 2 for a couple days with excellent performance from the bird today i was having it creep around the yard at low altitude and low speed to observe how the obstacle avoidance worked while I was carefully watching both control and drone. After several good episodes of the drone stopping I inched it up to a small pine tree and it announced "Obstacle", then immediately the remote flashed "Landing" and the bird crashed into the lower limbs of the tree and fell 4 feet to the ground. Although I did not see any visible damage, ESC error (not recoverable by re-flashing firmware), so its on its way back to DJI.
The perplexing issue is I was not attempting to land or descend and the drone had just moved forward to announce obstacle when it automomously decided to land and hit the broader lower branches of the pine tree. Any thoughts on why this would occur, or anyone else note this behavior. One thought I had is rather than the drone getting close to the ground and initiate landing as it moved forward the lower branches below the drone increased in their proximity to the bottom and initiated a landing sequence?
[Admin I posted this in Mavic General before I saw this new section]
The perplexing issue is I was not attempting to land or descend and the drone had just moved forward to announce obstacle when it automomously decided to land and hit the broader lower branches of the pine tree. Any thoughts on why this would occur, or anyone else note this behavior. One thought I had is rather than the drone getting close to the ground and initiate landing as it moved forward the lower branches below the drone increased in their proximity to the bottom and initiated a landing sequence?
[Admin I posted this in Mavic General before I saw this new section]