Mini 5 Pro down over water...

[AeroJ]

Looks like there may be a potential issue with props not locking in correctly with the M5Ps...

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Check the comments under this one - tons of people seem to be getting this issue, so popping it here as a general warning to those who have one...

 

[mavic3usa]

Mini owners haven't been used to dealing with locking props but only with bend, warps, or broken props. But the question is who has been taking off props this early and why is there an issue with the proper attachment?

 

[Meta4]

Looks like there may be a potential issue with props not locking in correctly with the M5Ps...

The video guy doesn't mention this.
Where did this idea come from?

It's can be confusing trying to make sense of a crash incident from a screen recording and the recorded flight data would make it a lot easier to tell what happened.
If a prop is lost the drone would rotate uncontrollably as it loses height.
The screen recording doesn't show that happening.

 

[Meta4]

Check the comments under this one - tons of people seem to be getting this issue, so popping it here as a general warning to those who have one...

Tons of people have no idea what happened to this drone or their own drone.
It's easy to say the same thing happened to mine when you don't know what happened in either case.
I wouldn't have much faith in Youtube comments, but a few of the brief comments sound like yaw error incidents.

 

[AeroJ]

Where did this idea come from?

In the absence of flight logs, it was merely my own guess based primarily on the excessive vibration making its way into the gimbal from the moment it spins up and takes off, combined with the various warning messages that pop up whilst it's going mental...

Unless his gimbal suspension grommets had somehow failed (and I don't see clues that they did) I can't see what else could cause this vibration apart from some prop-or motor-based issue, and I am not inclined to blame the latter. And seeing as they changed the prop mounting system with the v5, and looking at the comments, a lot of which seem to reference 'similar' prop issues, that seemed to me like a reasonable assumption to make in the first instance...

 

[AeroJ]

If a prop is lost the drone would rotate uncontrollably as it loses height.

I wasn't thinking that a prop came off, only that perhaps one half of one become obstructed and couldn't unfold properly for some reason, or was somehow deformed in a way that compromised flight characteristics.

TBH I am rather hoping it as a prop issue, and not the IMU going inexplicably nuts, which is something really old legacy DJI systems had been slightly infamous for, back in the day, but which was a problem I thought they had all but eradicated with more recent models.

 

[Meta4]

I wasn't thinking that a prop came off, only that perhaps one half of one become obstructed and couldn't unfold properly for some reason, or was somehow deformed in a way that compromised flight characteristics.

Since the drone launched and hovered before losing control, it's safe to say that the props unfolded properly.

And seeing as they changed the prop mounting system with the v5, and looking at the comments, a lot of which seem to reference 'similar' prop issues, that seemed to me like a reasonable assumption to make in the first instance...

With no evidence to go with, making guesses is unlikely to find the cause of the incident.
I read a lot of the comments on the video and all I could make from them was that many of the people making them don't know why their drones acted as they did.

 

[AeroJ]

Since the drone launched and hovered before losing control, it's safe to say that the props unfolded properly.

I'd say that was debatable. It looked to me like there was no control from the second he left the ground and it started that sharp continuous rise he says he didn't command, and the weird vibrations were there from the moment props were started.

 

[BossBob]

I read or watched something in the DJI documentation or how to video’s that mentions pulling the props straight when doing preflight checks rather than spinning them out on motor start up which I normally do anyway.
I had a prop break after hitting a small branch so took it apart (destructively). Seems very robust to me and unlikely to lose a blade unless there was outside influence or material failure.

 

[DoomMeister]

I read a lot of the comments myself and can only SMH at the number of users that have absolutely no clue to how their drones work and have the belief that sensors and active track will allow a drone to fly itself and avoid almost invisible obstacles. There is absolutely no way they ever read the user manual and likely not even the quick start manual.

 

[MS Coast]

Check the comments under this one - tons of people seem to be getting this issue,

Tons? Where does this conclusion come from? Anywhere other than the comments on the video?

 

[AeroJ]

Tons? Where does this conclusion come from? Anywhere other than the comments on the video?

The video has been up 1 day and garnered 94 comments, at least 5 of which specifically mention their m5ps doing similar things. 'Tons' here is a relative term ! It's not a conclusion - it's merely a speculation / observation of interest, and it's a jumping off point for discussion; after all, makes for a rather unimaginative post if we just dump the video in and leave it at that, uncommented !

Once there are a lot more M5Ps out in the wild I imagine we will see more of this sort of vibrating behaviour and subsequent crashes, and my own personal guess is that the props will have something to do with it !

 

[Meta4]

The video has been up 1 day and garnered 94 comments, at least 5 of which specifically mention their m5ps doing similar things.

But since all we know of the video incident is that the drone had a problem and was lost, all of those people were guessing and assuming as you've done.

Once there are a lot more M5Ps out in the wild I imagine we will see more of this sort of vibrating behaviour and subsequent crashes, and my own personal guess is that the props will have something to do with it !

You imagine ... your own personal guess ... that says it all.
That one drone was lost because of an unidentified issue, does not mean that there is a widespread issue with that particular model.

 

[EricJT]

Tons? Where does this conclusion come from? Anywhere other than the comments on the video?

Perhaps it is 8 5oo lbs guys?

 

[AeroJ]

You imagine ... your own personal guess ... that says it all.

Yes, and I never claimed it was anything else. And what, exactly, is wrong with having a guess anyway ? And who made you arbiter of what other contributors can post ?