Hi all, my first post here I've been reading around the forum and am so impressed with the amount of help people provide on here. So thanks in advance!!
Description of the disaster:
Feb 13
On my third flight of the day I took off from my kayak a little ways off shore. Used auto takeoff and after establishing a steady hover I paused a moment to check to make sure I had a good connection with the Mavic, and and the my settings were correct. All was well.
I began flying towards shore and immediately notice my video feed seemed to be choppy and I was getting artifacts. I checked my remote and display and all signals and bars were full and green. So I continued thinking it might go away. After a few more seconds it got worse so I stopped. Still the remote was telling me everything was perfect but the video feed was horrible. So I decided to bring it back and land to try and diagnose the problem.
I turned around and headed back with the video feed continuing to get worse while the HD status remained green and full bars. I brought it to a hover about 10m off the bow and about 10 meters off the water. Now as I tried to maneuver closer to myself I found it was not responding well to my inputs, and would not maintain a steady hover. It shifted left and right slightly and wasn't maintaining a constant elevation. Now I was worried.
Now as I tried to desend and land the Mavic stopped responding to me completely and started depending on its own. After a few tries pushing up on the sticks and no response I rushed to get under it, but with no luck and I watched the Mavic desend into the water and sink a few feet away from me .
Since Then:
I contacted dji and after waiting a month and spending $80 in long distance charges they've been unable to conclude what the problem was and so won't cover it under warranty.
I recieved that news a couple days ago and am now trying to figure it out on my own.
There are a couple things that are odd after reviewing the flight log.
1. The flight log ended before the Mavic went into the water.
2. Healthy drones reports a very weak signal when my controller never dripped a single bar. Why would I have such a signal problem with the drone only a few feet from me and zero obstructions. I was the only boat in the water. Nothing else in sight that might have interfered
I've attached a screenshot of it below, aswell as a link to my flight record on the dji go app, and the.txt file.
Ideas:
After reading through some other threads it seems the culprit for the erratic flight over the water near the end of my flight might be attributed to the VPS system which was on. If that was the case though why did I never get a warning that it was landing?
Somehow did I coincidentally lose connection and engage auto land at the same time?
Or perhaps I'm missing something far more obvious.
Recap:
Why did my flight log end early?
Why did I have such a poor signal?
Why didn't the remote report a poor signal?
What the heck happened!?!?
Resources:
DJI flight record screen recording
Flight record .TXT file is attached
screen shot of healthy drones
Description of the disaster:
Feb 13
On my third flight of the day I took off from my kayak a little ways off shore. Used auto takeoff and after establishing a steady hover I paused a moment to check to make sure I had a good connection with the Mavic, and and the my settings were correct. All was well.
I began flying towards shore and immediately notice my video feed seemed to be choppy and I was getting artifacts. I checked my remote and display and all signals and bars were full and green. So I continued thinking it might go away. After a few more seconds it got worse so I stopped. Still the remote was telling me everything was perfect but the video feed was horrible. So I decided to bring it back and land to try and diagnose the problem.
I turned around and headed back with the video feed continuing to get worse while the HD status remained green and full bars. I brought it to a hover about 10m off the bow and about 10 meters off the water. Now as I tried to maneuver closer to myself I found it was not responding well to my inputs, and would not maintain a steady hover. It shifted left and right slightly and wasn't maintaining a constant elevation. Now I was worried.
Now as I tried to desend and land the Mavic stopped responding to me completely and started depending on its own. After a few tries pushing up on the sticks and no response I rushed to get under it, but with no luck and I watched the Mavic desend into the water and sink a few feet away from me .
Since Then:
I contacted dji and after waiting a month and spending $80 in long distance charges they've been unable to conclude what the problem was and so won't cover it under warranty.
I recieved that news a couple days ago and am now trying to figure it out on my own.
There are a couple things that are odd after reviewing the flight log.
1. The flight log ended before the Mavic went into the water.
2. Healthy drones reports a very weak signal when my controller never dripped a single bar. Why would I have such a signal problem with the drone only a few feet from me and zero obstructions. I was the only boat in the water. Nothing else in sight that might have interfered
I've attached a screenshot of it below, aswell as a link to my flight record on the dji go app, and the.txt file.
Ideas:
After reading through some other threads it seems the culprit for the erratic flight over the water near the end of my flight might be attributed to the VPS system which was on. If that was the case though why did I never get a warning that it was landing?
Somehow did I coincidentally lose connection and engage auto land at the same time?
Or perhaps I'm missing something far more obvious.
Recap:
Why did my flight log end early?
Why did I have such a poor signal?
Why didn't the remote report a poor signal?
What the heck happened!?!?
Resources:
DJI flight record screen recording
Flight record .TXT file is attached
screen shot of healthy drones
