Hi everyone,
I was flying back in August in RI along the shore of Narraganset Bay and a little bit out over the bay itself. After checking maps for restrictions, etc., and not seeing any, I finally decided to try to fly this bird farther away than I have at any time before then. It's hard locally to go any real distance and keep VLOS, and where I live (at my house) I have a 100' ceiling because of a local Air National Guard base/local airport (I have an area-wide authorization, but the height's the issue at home).
So I'm psyched. It's over water, but I didn't plan to cruise the surface, just wanted to get out to the Lighthouse (Hog Island Shore Light), do a circle, and fly back. Looks like it's around 1km out, so that should be okay, right? Nowhere near range, and still within sight. A good test flight.
Off I go. Everything looks good. I fly it out and once I'm at the distance I want, I set it up to do a loop around. Partway through the loop, I get a message on the controller (I'm looking at the phone at this point). If I was asked to swear, I would say a message quickly popped up saying "Restricted zone" (or something similar), but the txt log doesn't support that. At 4 minutes 3.1 seconds, the text log shows a message of "Strong Remote Controller Interference." It recovered after 5.2 seconds. Shortly thereafter I hit hit return home; it oriented, waited a beat, and came home.
I have two questions:
1) Is there anything I can do to work with these kinds of errors? This scared me. A lot. I don't want to lose this thing, but I really feel like I missed a chance for even cooler video than I got. I'd like to not freak out if it happens again, maybe correct, and just restart the loop. Not sure I'll ever be that cool, though.
2) While getting this post ready, I searched for the mobile device DAT files. Not there. Like, not even a folder for them with the name that's listed in the log retrieval guide. What's up with that? Shouldn't there at least be a folder for the dat files?
TXT file is on phantomhelp: DJI Flight Log Viewer - PhantomHelp.com
The relevant video segment is here:
Appreciate any thoughts folks have.
Also, I posted this here and not in flyaways because, well, it didn't fly away. Mods feel free to move.
I was flying back in August in RI along the shore of Narraganset Bay and a little bit out over the bay itself. After checking maps for restrictions, etc., and not seeing any, I finally decided to try to fly this bird farther away than I have at any time before then. It's hard locally to go any real distance and keep VLOS, and where I live (at my house) I have a 100' ceiling because of a local Air National Guard base/local airport (I have an area-wide authorization, but the height's the issue at home).
So I'm psyched. It's over water, but I didn't plan to cruise the surface, just wanted to get out to the Lighthouse (Hog Island Shore Light), do a circle, and fly back. Looks like it's around 1km out, so that should be okay, right? Nowhere near range, and still within sight. A good test flight.
Off I go. Everything looks good. I fly it out and once I'm at the distance I want, I set it up to do a loop around. Partway through the loop, I get a message on the controller (I'm looking at the phone at this point). If I was asked to swear, I would say a message quickly popped up saying "Restricted zone" (or something similar), but the txt log doesn't support that. At 4 minutes 3.1 seconds, the text log shows a message of "Strong Remote Controller Interference." It recovered after 5.2 seconds. Shortly thereafter I hit hit return home; it oriented, waited a beat, and came home.
I have two questions:
1) Is there anything I can do to work with these kinds of errors? This scared me. A lot. I don't want to lose this thing, but I really feel like I missed a chance for even cooler video than I got. I'd like to not freak out if it happens again, maybe correct, and just restart the loop. Not sure I'll ever be that cool, though.
2) While getting this post ready, I searched for the mobile device DAT files. Not there. Like, not even a folder for them with the name that's listed in the log retrieval guide. What's up with that? Shouldn't there at least be a folder for the dat files?
TXT file is on phantomhelp: DJI Flight Log Viewer - PhantomHelp.com
The relevant video segment is here:
Appreciate any thoughts folks have.
Also, I posted this here and not in flyaways because, well, it didn't fly away. Mods feel free to move.