Hello second post on this forum. I am flying a Mavic Pro since almost one year now, got 16 hrs flight under my belt in several countries (ok, a far cry from the 40 hrs required).
I generally fly quite conservatively, trying always to keep the drone in VLOS (and thus, often missing on some spectacular footage and/or shots). Obviously, my interest is mainly photographic, but since I live in Hong Kong, difficult to fly at all within the city if not in some wild areas. I try to keep clear areas around landing and takeoff place for possible mishaps. Anyway, after a bad landing in Tai Mo Shan (wind...), the gimbal exhibited the "motor overload" message and would not recalibrate. Upon takeoff, and flight however, the camera and drone still operated somehow correctly.
The incident happened when I decided to try the "portrait" mode while in flight. For some reason, the gimbal fed back to the gyroscope, and the Mavic started spinning around its axis. It was still at about 70 m high, and kept altitude. I still had some amount of control on directions, so I moved it as best I could in a safe area and then focused on controlling the spin while bringing it down as fast as possible. As nobody was around, I was free to attempt a controlled landing instead of cutting the motors and letting the drone crash in the bushes. Eventually, around 7 m from the ground, the drone stopped spinning as was back under control. I landed normally thereafter. In short, not panicking and being able to decide the best options from a safety point of view can help a lot in emergencies. Also very important is to keep your takeoff and landing areas as free as possible.
Useless to say it was rushed to DJI flagship shop where I had an appointment to check the gimbal. As I had the DJI care program, they just swapped the drone and battery with a brand new one. Very painless and nice experience with DJI.
I generally fly quite conservatively, trying always to keep the drone in VLOS (and thus, often missing on some spectacular footage and/or shots). Obviously, my interest is mainly photographic, but since I live in Hong Kong, difficult to fly at all within the city if not in some wild areas. I try to keep clear areas around landing and takeoff place for possible mishaps. Anyway, after a bad landing in Tai Mo Shan (wind...), the gimbal exhibited the "motor overload" message and would not recalibrate. Upon takeoff, and flight however, the camera and drone still operated somehow correctly.
The incident happened when I decided to try the "portrait" mode while in flight. For some reason, the gimbal fed back to the gyroscope, and the Mavic started spinning around its axis. It was still at about 70 m high, and kept altitude. I still had some amount of control on directions, so I moved it as best I could in a safe area and then focused on controlling the spin while bringing it down as fast as possible. As nobody was around, I was free to attempt a controlled landing instead of cutting the motors and letting the drone crash in the bushes. Eventually, around 7 m from the ground, the drone stopped spinning as was back under control. I landed normally thereafter. In short, not panicking and being able to decide the best options from a safety point of view can help a lot in emergencies. Also very important is to keep your takeoff and landing areas as free as possible.
Useless to say it was rushed to DJI flagship shop where I had an appointment to check the gimbal. As I had the DJI care program, they just swapped the drone and battery with a brand new one. Very painless and nice experience with DJI.
