This evening I took a walk and took the drone with me to create some aerial shots. A short time after take off, the rear of the drone started to 'bounce' heavily in the air. It wasn't that high above open fields, but scary anyway. It's like the front part of the drone was 'locked' to a specific position, while the rear part was falling down. Literally. Eventually, I did some stick movements and it stabilized itself.
I won't provide logs, but have looked into them using Flight Reader and I found nothing special. The only weird thing is that during the bouncing, the 'Cell Deviation' went up from +/- 0,025V to spikes with +/- 0,090V. (Which I would expect - it needed extra power to restore it's position).
Could this be the equivalent to air pockets in regular aviation? Or is there something else at play here?
I'm flying drones for years now, and it is the first time I witnessed something like this...
Edit: I should add that it had a solid GPS lock (around 22 satellites) and was using the most recent firmware.
I won't provide logs, but have looked into them using Flight Reader and I found nothing special. The only weird thing is that during the bouncing, the 'Cell Deviation' went up from +/- 0,025V to spikes with +/- 0,090V. (Which I would expect - it needed extra power to restore it's position).
Could this be the equivalent to air pockets in regular aviation? Or is there something else at play here?
I'm flying drones for years now, and it is the first time I witnessed something like this...
Edit: I should add that it had a solid GPS lock (around 22 satellites) and was using the most recent firmware.
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