I had a very scary incident yesterday with my mavic 3. In my country there are lots of incidents lately of gps jam and signal lost, when there is a situation of gps jam the home point is updated to Lebanon and when the return to home is initiated (due to signal lost), the drone heads to Libanon and it is running out of battery and either crashing or getting lost somewhere in the sea.
It happened to me as well yesterday, I was flying very cautions before taking off was making sure home point was correct and satellites more than 16-20.
I had two flights with no problem at all, but during my last flight (again double checked homepoint/satellites before taking off) the scary "gps lost " issue hit me.
The drone was not too far from me and luckily it was heading towards me.all of a sudden I had the message "gps lost" atti mode initiated fly with caution", low battery (my battery was 50%) and another error code appeared which I don't remember .
What I did was to push the forward stick all the way and hoping for the best. I was taking off from a cliff about 3meters above the sea , then when I was above the sea the altitude was correcting to 16-17 meters. When the lost gps incident happened the drone took a dive almost landing in the sea, it came to around only 25-30cm above see, my controller was showing height -2meters, lucky for me I could see it and push the left stick up, drone then was drifting left towards the rocks, then made a slight turn right and came back to me and manage to land it. Wind was blowing towards the see not towards the rocks. I was focused watching the drone, I don't know if it regain the gps signal and autocorrected it self. What I don't understand is the dive from 17 meters height to go to almost 0 meters . Is this because I was flying above sea and atti mode kicked in?
Scary incident but I was very lucky to bring it back. I don't know if there was something else I could do?
It happened to me as well yesterday, I was flying very cautions before taking off was making sure home point was correct and satellites more than 16-20.
I had two flights with no problem at all, but during my last flight (again double checked homepoint/satellites before taking off) the scary "gps lost " issue hit me.
The drone was not too far from me and luckily it was heading towards me.all of a sudden I had the message "gps lost" atti mode initiated fly with caution", low battery (my battery was 50%) and another error code appeared which I don't remember .
What I did was to push the forward stick all the way and hoping for the best. I was taking off from a cliff about 3meters above the sea , then when I was above the sea the altitude was correcting to 16-17 meters. When the lost gps incident happened the drone took a dive almost landing in the sea, it came to around only 25-30cm above see, my controller was showing height -2meters, lucky for me I could see it and push the left stick up, drone then was drifting left towards the rocks, then made a slight turn right and came back to me and manage to land it. Wind was blowing towards the see not towards the rocks. I was focused watching the drone, I don't know if it regain the gps signal and autocorrected it self. What I don't understand is the dive from 17 meters height to go to almost 0 meters . Is this because I was flying above sea and atti mode kicked in?
Scary incident but I was very lucky to bring it back. I don't know if there was something else I could do?