Mavic 3 Jerky Flight

[Tim3459575]

Hi

I’ve been having trouble with jerky flight speed. It’s and intermittent issue and when it happens the drone keeps repeatedly braking for no reason when I have the stick forward. It looks to fy 10’ forward then brake then accelerate forward in a stop and go motion. I’ve noticed this in both cinema and normal mode. It also introduces some unwanted motion in the video due to the abrupt and repeated braking. I first observed this when I was using a catch handle and thought that could be the cause. However, it occurs even without the handle.

Any thoughts on what may be the cause and/or remedy ?

thank you

 

[JoelP]

I have only noticed this in two circumstances.

1. When the collision avoidance was engaged and it flew around some branches.
2. When I attached a version of a leg extender that I thought might add protection for the gimbal.

Otherwise my Mavic 3 has flown very smoothly.

 

[MavicAir2Marc]

...or obstacle avoidance is seeing the sun or bright reflection it thinks is an obstacle

 

[djctwo]

I had some Mavic 3 drift or movement recently while filming nature. There was no apparent sensor involvement. This was seemingly corrected by re-calibrating the IMU.

 

[Arnold LeVine]

Recently, my Mavic 3 rises when I am just going forward (right stick forward). Then I back up and do it again once or twice and the problem stops. Recalibrated sticks and compass (just realized I have not done the IMU, I will and see if that eliminates).
anybody else seen this behavior? Any thoughts, suggestions, fixes?

 

[TigersFan]

Recently, my Mavic 3 rises when I am just going forward (right stick forward). Then I back up and do it again once or twice and the problem stops. Recalibrated sticks and compass (just realized I have not done the IMU, I will and see if that eliminates).
anybody else seen this behavior? Any thoughts, suggestions, fixes?

There was a problem like this that a firmware update helped with. Maybe you haven't updated yet? Otherwise I'm no help. Good luck!

 

[thomasthomas]

Mine was doing this tonight flying about 20ft off the ground and into the sun. Disabling obstacle avoidance fixed it.

 

[Tim3459575]

thanks for all the input. I’m going to recalibrate and see if that helps. Will also try disabling obstacle avoidance if it happens again.

 

[omoss]

I bought my Mavic 3 end of March 2022 and encounter this issue from day 1 on. I already raised a DJI ticket and they replied with "It's a known issue and will be fixed in a later firmware update". However, it's also present in the latest firmware. Calibrating the IMU and compass doesn't help.
I have this issue most times if the sun is deep (maybe 15 to 20° over horizon..?), but also recognized it in cloudy situations or when the sun is in the back. Only disabling obstacle avoidance helps in my case.
I will now send my drone to DJI for maintenace but I don't think they can fix the problem. We probably have to wait for another software update and hope that it's not a hardware problem after all (due to the wide angle lenses?)

 

[Tim3459575]

I bought my Mavic 3 end of March 2022 and encounter this issue from day 1 on. I already raised a DJI ticket and they replied with "It's a known issue and will be fixed in a later firmware update". However, it's also present in the latest firmware. Calibrating the IMU and compass doesn't help.
I have this issue most times if the sun is deep (maybe 15 to 20° over horizon..?), but also recognized it in cloudy situations or when the sun is in the back. Only disabling obstacle avoidance helps in my case.
I will now send my drone to DJI for maintenace but I don't think they can fix the problem. We probably have to wait for another software update and hope that it's not a hardware problem after all (due to the wide angle lenses?)

thanks for the feedback on this issue