So I sent my drone up to take some photos of the family tonight at sunset and for the first time I experienced the drone rapidly changing back and fourth between attitude and GPS mode. I was not expecting it at all, there was always 5-8 GPS satellites and the map seemed fine. Almost instantly as I sent the drone up to only about 10 meters to a hover, I noticed it was responding very strangely to my input, or not responding at all. During this time the drone almost took a dunk into a water fountain. I thought maybe I didn't give it enough time to acquire the GPS signals it needed (I'm usually good about this) so I landed and re-reviewed everything. After I looked at everything and it seemed to check out, I sent it up again. Same behavior. This time, it almost seemed like the drone was making flight decisions on it's own, it nearly steered itself right into a tree and I had a HARD time landing it safely in a 10m square area. At this point I could only assume that there was something wrong with the drone, so I grounded it and started combing through my settings. I did just do a firmware update of both the remote and drone - but everything seemed to be what was expected in the app. What I did notice though was the "low light" warning was flickering, a lot. Once I started paying more attention to that, I started to notice that the Atti\GPS indicator was also flickering. It was fast, but enough to notice it was happening. So at this point I can only suspect that the drone was flipping back and fourth, mid flight, between Atti and GPS mode. It was lightly gusting outside and I have very little experience flying the raw Attitude mode, so I packed it up.
My question is, is there a way to prevent the drone from switching modes mid-flight? Is there a way to hard-set the mode?
My question is, is there a way to prevent the drone from switching modes mid-flight? Is there a way to hard-set the mode?
