Paul Joy
lvl.4
Flight distance : 3754318 ft
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I had a rather scary incident with our Inspire 2 today and I wondered if I could get DJI's thoughts on what happened as I was lucky this time and managed to rescue the situation but may not be so lucky in the future.
It was a ususal start to one of our jobs, I was working with a client supplied team working as observer and spotters. I fitted our X7 camera to the Inspire and after some inital photo setting changes and the ususal checks I took off to start the first shot. The landing gear went up as normal and all seemed fine until I tried to focus on the subject. The camera would not focus at all, when i clicked on the screen the focus mode would change back to MF. I then noticed the aperture was not changing either. I've seen this before and reseating the lens normally fixes it so I brought the Inspire back to land and reseat the lens.
I always use manual landing gear and on flicking the landing gear lever the app said "Landing Gear Lowering" but the actual gear did not move! I tried Atti mode and that was the same. I tried rebooting the crystalsky monitor and that made no fifference either so I eventually decided to try RTH. The Inspire stared it's auto landing proceedure as it should but it started to land with the gear still up and would have done so if I didnt override it a few meters from the ground.
I was starting to get quite concerned as it seemed the only option was to hand catch it and my team were not experienced at doing this so I couldnt ask them to attempt it, I had no choice but to try and catch it myself at the same time as powering it down with the remote. Luckily I managed to pull it off, I grabbed the base of the Inspire at the perfect balance point and pulled the throttle down and it shut off.
The landing gear was still up at this point so I pulled the batteries, restarted the Inspire and then the landing gear starting functioning again. I then reseated the lens and all was fine fr the rest of the day.
This is a really scary incident though and I would like to know what caused it and what I can do next time to recover the Inspire if it happens again.
Many thanks.
Paul
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