So in a very similar situation to the thread posted by Chuampis yesterday, I was doing an activetrack orbit (with me as the subject, so wasn't watching the controller, that'll teach me). I was doing some tracks where it would be fine for a while then lose track of me in an odd way despite ideal conditions with the subject wearing dark clothing against a white background (frozen water).
On the crash flight, it started and from looking at the flight log on a map the orbit it was going in for that flight seemed much wider than I'd expect which meant it ended up going over the only small piece of land jutting into the water and therefore managed to fly into the only place where it could hit something and of course it did. Because of the camera angle I can't tell if it hit a tree or a sign that was there, but it sustained some proper damage in a 45 degree bent front left leg and the gimbal is out of alignment.
It'll need to go back to DJI for repair either way, but I'm curious what might have happened. Certainly I could have been further away from the tiny point where it could hit something, but the orbit should have put it well out of range. Also I feel the proximity sensors should have been able to cope with that. But having said that, there have been a couple of occurrences recently where it detected an "obstacle" whilst right up in the air nowhere near anything at all so I'm not sure if something was already wonky.
Thanks for any insight that can be provided.
On the crash flight, it started and from looking at the flight log on a map the orbit it was going in for that flight seemed much wider than I'd expect which meant it ended up going over the only small piece of land jutting into the water and therefore managed to fly into the only place where it could hit something and of course it did. Because of the camera angle I can't tell if it hit a tree or a sign that was there, but it sustained some proper damage in a 45 degree bent front left leg and the gimbal is out of alignment.
It'll need to go back to DJI for repair either way, but I'm curious what might have happened. Certainly I could have been further away from the tiny point where it could hit something, but the orbit should have put it well out of range. Also I feel the proximity sensors should have been able to cope with that. But having said that, there have been a couple of occurrences recently where it detected an "obstacle" whilst right up in the air nowhere near anything at all so I'm not sure if something was already wonky.
Thanks for any insight that can be provided.