Elektrica
Captain
Flight distance : 9674836 ft
Italy
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Very sad day...I was stable, hovering, around 115 mt. height, 50% battery, when all of a suddent the I2 started spinning wildly in circles, completely out of control, gimball went crazy as well, I could not see anything on screen anymore...All this without losing height, I managed to regain some control, hovered again to try to figure out what was going on, same issue again, so I regained control by moving the sticks a bit, pointed slowly and very worried toward me, descended to 20 mt. lowered the landing gear and the I2 just tilted 90 degrees to the right and out out control disintegrated on the concrete. I have DJI Refresh on both I2 and X5S, but this is clearly a serious issue / malfunction. Picking up the pieces, I can see that one of the rotors is locked / jammed, but that might have been the crash itself.
This I2 had issues from day one. Out of the box it was unstable, flying in wider and wider circles and often lost GPS (Not a building obstruction problem). I chatted with support and that was somehow / partially fixed with an IMU reset. Circling disappeared, but GPS loss happened again, last time on the 22nd of February, for a few seconds. Errors were GPS loss (At 200 mt. height!) and abnormal compass function or GPS...
Loss of signal was some 30 seconds (Of TERROR) as the I2 was 1.6km away. Had I lost video signal as well, who knows...
Another incident was over a lake in Switzerland on the 13th of February, the signal just went dead in the middle of the lake, at 74mt height and 1.1km distance.
Nothing was logged after that on the APP. After a few minutes, hoping to see the I2 return home, but hearing no sound, etc. I started using the RTH function and after a while I saw the I2 over my head. I managed to land it, but I never regained the signal, which was only re-established by turning everything off and on again. I have no idea if RTH did the trick, or the battery failsafe, or what.
I am fully aware of what loss of video signal is, but this time the signal just went dead for good. I have (and had): P4, P4P, Mavic, Inspire1, I logged 274 flights and 520km, 42h of flight. I am very familiar with weird situations and mistakes (I made plenty). I did have minor accidents, but this I2 was either born weird or something potentially scary might be lurking behind the I2. It would have been best if the 1st time support asked me to send it in for a checkup (I would have done that happily).
The final crash, a few hours ago, was truly scary. The I2 is big, heavy and dangerous. Had it lost final control at 115 mt. who knows...
Anyway, I will send bit, pieces and crumbs back to DJI Support probably tomorrow.
I TRULY HOPE this unit was born defective and I am sure DJI will pay close attention to what happened.
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