Well, the title says it all. The flight logs have been hard to come by because I can't seem to access all the files on my smart controller using a USB cable no matter how many tips I try from this forum. However, I did install the HD Sync app and upload the log to airdata.com. Then I was able to download the CSV file of the log .
Here's how it went down. I had been flying over the water and on the beach the flight before and landed to change the battery. Wife wanted to see an area about a mile offshore so I took off, rotated toward the item and set out over the water. Had good GPS, and was in P-GPS Mode.. I was flying at about 3 ft and climbed to about 8 ft over the water. I had done this earlier to get some video over the water with no issues. Maybe not smart, I know. BUT, when you look at the logs, you can see me climb to about 8 ft but for some reason the sonar altitude shows as low as .3ft and I believe that's when it hit the water. My wife said she thought she saw it touch the water so I went full climb. It shot up to about 35 ft but obviously had ingested water and just dropped out of the sky. It was about 300-350 ft offshore. I tried to swim for it but the water was too murky and I had no snorkel gear. It was lost. I would have been ruined anyway due to the saltwater ingestion.
I don't see how I did anything wrong and have asked DJI to look at the logs. I expect them to go with the "sonar protection not guaranteed over water" or something like that but it seems stable in the log. Why didn't the drone react to the sonar altitude? I don't see "sonar altitude" in the CSV log but it is in the graph of the airdata.com log analysis info.
This site won't let me upload the CSV file or a pic of the airdata log info. How do I put it out there for folks to look at?
Is the airdata.com link all I can do? Here it is.
Thoughts?
Here's how it went down. I had been flying over the water and on the beach the flight before and landed to change the battery. Wife wanted to see an area about a mile offshore so I took off, rotated toward the item and set out over the water. Had good GPS, and was in P-GPS Mode.. I was flying at about 3 ft and climbed to about 8 ft over the water. I had done this earlier to get some video over the water with no issues. Maybe not smart, I know. BUT, when you look at the logs, you can see me climb to about 8 ft but for some reason the sonar altitude shows as low as .3ft and I believe that's when it hit the water. My wife said she thought she saw it touch the water so I went full climb. It shot up to about 35 ft but obviously had ingested water and just dropped out of the sky. It was about 300-350 ft offshore. I tried to swim for it but the water was too murky and I had no snorkel gear. It was lost. I would have been ruined anyway due to the saltwater ingestion.
I don't see how I did anything wrong and have asked DJI to look at the logs. I expect them to go with the "sonar protection not guaranteed over water" or something like that but it seems stable in the log. Why didn't the drone react to the sonar altitude? I don't see "sonar altitude" in the CSV log but it is in the graph of the airdata.com log analysis info.
This site won't let me upload the CSV file or a pic of the airdata log info. How do I put it out there for folks to look at?
Is the airdata.com link all I can do? Here it is.
Thoughts?