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So today I was testing out the Altizure app since they updated it so it’s NOW compatible with the MA. It was set to come home and I was near my house when it was coming back down. Once it got like 3-4’ off the ground I decided to move it closer to me in which I was maybe 5’ away from the house. When I did that the MA started to hover to its side and I reacted to late and it ran into the brick wall and my drone fell to the cement ground. The drop was probably a foot or so. But it hurt me to see it happen. My props were beat up quite a bit. So after relaunching my drone I noticed when it hovers now it won’t be still. I redid it again inside my house and it’s the same. Can it be that the motors screwed up when it went into the wall? I do have the 1 year warranty and I’m not sure if this is a reason for me to send it in. I haven’t done any more footage or pictures to see how much of impact it is. But I wanted to see what other people think.

Video: Box
 
So today I was testing out the Altizure app since they updated it so it’s NOW compatible with the MA. It was set to come home and I was near my house when it was coming back down. Once it got like 3-4’ off the ground I decided to move it closer to me in which I was maybe 5’ away from the house. When I did that the MA started to hover to its side and I reacted to late and it ran into the brick wall and my drone fell to the cement ground. The drop was probably a foot or so. But it hurt me to see it happen. My props were beat up quite a bit. So after relaunching my drone I noticed when it hovers now it won’t be still. I redid it again inside my house and it’s the same. Can it be that the motors screwed up when it went into the wall? I do have the 1 year warranty and I’m not sure if this is a reason for me to send it in. I haven’t done any more footage or pictures to see how much of impact it is. But I wanted to see what other people think.

Video: Box
I assume you replaced the props after the crash?
 
I assume you replaced the props after the crash?

Yeah I replaced them with new ones and took the video indoors and it did the same. Forgot to mention that. I was connected to GPS with 10 satellite connections.
 
Yeah I replaced them with new ones and took the video indoors and it did the same. Forgot to mention that. I was connected to GPS with 10 satellite connections.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but from the sound of your problem you may have luck calibrating the IMU.
 
So today I was testing out the Altizure app since they updated it so it’s NOW compatible with the MA. It was set to come home and I was near my house when it was coming back down. Once it got like 3-4’ off the ground I decided to move it closer to me in which I was maybe 5’ away from the house. When I did that the MA started to hover to its side and I reacted to late and it ran into the brick wall and my drone fell to the cement ground. The drop was probably a foot or so. But it hurt me to see it happen. My props were beat up quite a bit. So after relaunching my drone I noticed when it hovers now it won’t be still. I redid it again inside my house and it’s the same. Can it be that the motors screwed up when it went into the wall? I do have the 1 year warranty and I’m not sure if this is a reason for me to send it in. I haven’t done any more footage or pictures to see how much of impact it is. But I wanted to see what other people think.

Video: Box
OA trying to avoid the house
 
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Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but from the sound of your problem you may have luck calibrating the IMU.
Correct. After every crash, even a minor one, always calibrate the IMU.
 
I do have the 1 year warranty and I’m not sure if this is a reason for me to send it in
Do a IMU calibration. If it is broken, I hope you get a warranty service, but DJI would probably regard this a pilot error. The obstacle avoidance worked as programmed and you should have taken control to avoid the avoidance (if that makes any sense at all :eek:, which is why I never use and trust OA). Do you have care refresh?
 
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