Hi All,
I will try and make this somewhat concise.
2 flights prior ago (prior to lockdown) I noticed that my Mavic Pro (6.5 hours flight time in total) was having an issue with the camera - whereas I fly forward and sometimes, when decelerating the horizon jumps (almost like the camera got stuck and then unstuck).
Camera jumping
As my drone is in warranty, I contacted DJI this week and they recommended refreshing the firmware through DJI Assist which I duly did. The view was to see if this fixed it and if not then to send it back to them (Amsterdam!).
In my garden, I'm just able to obey drone code rules and so I took off and hovered. Shuffling forward and backwards in the small area I could operate with i couldn't see the camera sticking. I repeated this a further 4 times, take off, hover and shuffle forward and backwards. On the final test, I had swapped onto the drone the gold tip blades and lifted up once more. At that point my daughter enters the garden and my field of view, I look away from the drone to her and tell her to stay behind me but in those few seconds, the drone has crabbed across to where a chair is. I see the drone is about to hit the chair, I panic and actually yaw in the direction of the chair that the drone was just about to hit anyway. The drone lands on its roof. Upon visual inspection there is no damage (cosmetic or otherwise) to the drone, save the plastic rim around the motor is scuffed a little (even that is hardly visible after rubbing it). The prop that hit the chair had a chunk out the tip and one of the plastic lugs that connect the prop to the motor housing had snapped off requiring some upside down (so gravity could catch it!) tweezer work to remove it. After inspecting, I did hover the drone again, this time with my original props on and shuffled forward/backwards and side to side okay.
This is my first crash and I accept I was flying in too narrow a corridor because I wanted to obey lockdown and the drone code and if the refresh of the firmware hadn't worked at least the drone was heading back for warranty repair at a time it cant be used anyway. It does leave me with the following questions though.
1) I assume DJI will now use this 'hard landing' to avoid repairing the camera issue (if it has persisted past the FW refresh) under warranty?
2) Why did the drone crab when there was no wind last night? Because it happened straight after putting on new props, could it be related to some unseen issue with those props?
Thanks
G
I will try and make this somewhat concise.
2 flights prior ago (prior to lockdown) I noticed that my Mavic Pro (6.5 hours flight time in total) was having an issue with the camera - whereas I fly forward and sometimes, when decelerating the horizon jumps (almost like the camera got stuck and then unstuck).
Camera jumping
As my drone is in warranty, I contacted DJI this week and they recommended refreshing the firmware through DJI Assist which I duly did. The view was to see if this fixed it and if not then to send it back to them (Amsterdam!).
In my garden, I'm just able to obey drone code rules and so I took off and hovered. Shuffling forward and backwards in the small area I could operate with i couldn't see the camera sticking. I repeated this a further 4 times, take off, hover and shuffle forward and backwards. On the final test, I had swapped onto the drone the gold tip blades and lifted up once more. At that point my daughter enters the garden and my field of view, I look away from the drone to her and tell her to stay behind me but in those few seconds, the drone has crabbed across to where a chair is. I see the drone is about to hit the chair, I panic and actually yaw in the direction of the chair that the drone was just about to hit anyway. The drone lands on its roof. Upon visual inspection there is no damage (cosmetic or otherwise) to the drone, save the plastic rim around the motor is scuffed a little (even that is hardly visible after rubbing it). The prop that hit the chair had a chunk out the tip and one of the plastic lugs that connect the prop to the motor housing had snapped off requiring some upside down (so gravity could catch it!) tweezer work to remove it. After inspecting, I did hover the drone again, this time with my original props on and shuffled forward/backwards and side to side okay.
This is my first crash and I accept I was flying in too narrow a corridor because I wanted to obey lockdown and the drone code and if the refresh of the firmware hadn't worked at least the drone was heading back for warranty repair at a time it cant be used anyway. It does leave me with the following questions though.
1) I assume DJI will now use this 'hard landing' to avoid repairing the camera issue (if it has persisted past the FW refresh) under warranty?
2) Why did the drone crab when there was no wind last night? Because it happened straight after putting on new props, could it be related to some unseen issue with those props?
Thanks
G
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