I ditched android (S7) and went to an iPhone 7, soley for the purposes of flying the Mavic as Android had a few disconnects for me, so yesterday, first flight of the day along the coast with the iPhone 7, I got around 6 disconnects in an area where I have NEVER had any before, phone was in airplane mode using the standard left-side lightning port. When I got home and reviewed the 2.7k flight, I did see a RC plance hooning below the Mavic, could this have caused the disconnects?
I presume looking at the notifications and what the screen said, they were video downlink disconnects, not RC disconnects, the screen went gray then black and said something like "disconnected - initiate RTH Yes / No"? On the first disconnect, I just pushed the RTH button on the controller and it did a perfect RTH, suggesting I still had an RC link? I could also get the app up again just by clicking the iPhone home button and then the Go4 app again - connection would pop right back up.
Here is the notification list of the "downlink data loss" I guess I need to find out if this is video only or total connection loss to the RC?
Airdata UAV - Flight Data Analysis for Drones
So I then came in and swapped a battery and flew the same route again, with NO disconnects at all, nothing changed? There is not many houses in the area, I did see on the footage, the RC plane again about 20m below me, but no disconnects this time. I had clear air, hills to the left approx 100m in height but not in line of flight. It was windy, approx 20-22kmh winds at 75m. Here is that 2nd trouble free flight:
Airdata UAV - Flight Data Analysis for Drones
I don't think the Mavic initiated any RTH on it's own once, again, suggesting they were video downlink issue, not RC issue? As then the Mavic would have initiated it's own RTH on total disconnect? I', running all the latest firmware and app. I tried a Apple standard lightning cable on the 3rd flight connected to the bottom USB and all fine again, like the 2nd flight.
Any insight appreciated as to the first flight issues, looking at the signal map tab, they were pretty major and sudden signal errors out of the blue? Andrew
I presume looking at the notifications and what the screen said, they were video downlink disconnects, not RC disconnects, the screen went gray then black and said something like "disconnected - initiate RTH Yes / No"? On the first disconnect, I just pushed the RTH button on the controller and it did a perfect RTH, suggesting I still had an RC link? I could also get the app up again just by clicking the iPhone home button and then the Go4 app again - connection would pop right back up.
Here is the notification list of the "downlink data loss" I guess I need to find out if this is video only or total connection loss to the RC?
Airdata UAV - Flight Data Analysis for Drones
So I then came in and swapped a battery and flew the same route again, with NO disconnects at all, nothing changed? There is not many houses in the area, I did see on the footage, the RC plane again about 20m below me, but no disconnects this time. I had clear air, hills to the left approx 100m in height but not in line of flight. It was windy, approx 20-22kmh winds at 75m. Here is that 2nd trouble free flight:
Airdata UAV - Flight Data Analysis for Drones
I don't think the Mavic initiated any RTH on it's own once, again, suggesting they were video downlink issue, not RC issue? As then the Mavic would have initiated it's own RTH on total disconnect? I', running all the latest firmware and app. I tried a Apple standard lightning cable on the 3rd flight connected to the bottom USB and all fine again, like the 2nd flight.
Any insight appreciated as to the first flight issues, looking at the signal map tab, they were pretty major and sudden signal errors out of the blue? Andrew
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