AG0N-Gary
First Officer
Flight distance : 700846 ft
United States
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Red Defiant Posted at 2017-6-7 16:45
I can appreciate your insight but I assure this was not an operator error. I have taken off from my patio numerous times. At the time I took off I was connected to 3 sats, I flew to the center of the yard and waited for it to finish syncing up with the rest of the GPS/GLONASS sats which it did, connected to around 15, then waited for the "Home Point has been updated...." notification, which I got. I continued to hover there for a few seconds, not even touching the sticks. Checked the aircraft status, and everything was green. Then without me moving the control sticks the drone flew back and to the left at a 45 degree angle (no altitude change). When I noticed this was happening I moved the controller sticks to try to make it fly forward and to the right. The Mavic did not respond, and continued to fly back and to the left until it hit the wall. I even hit the pause button before it hit the wall and this did nothing. I had no compass error or IMU error. I had full GPS signal, full controller and video feed signal and over 90% drone battery and over 90% controller battery. I have flown this exact pattern many times before and since without incident. I have flown in far more restrictive places both indoors and outdoors with no incident. Not operating it like a kid with new skates.
Thank you for the correction. I wouldn't have made all of the statements I did if you had supplied more complete information in your original post. Given the info you have now provided I would have a talk with DJI about the issue.
So far, my early (Nov 2016) build Mavic has shown no sign of any problems at all, but I admit to having a low number of hours on it. I've flown the P3A for almost 2 yrs without an unexplained, non-pilot error, and only one minor pilot induced problem. That doesn't make me cocky about flying though. Like the other guy posted, all has worked just fine, but the posts on this forum scare the heck out of me. I need to get out and fly it some more, obviously.
I also agree though that many more people who get on here and rant about crashing their bird and DJI should replace it, haven't even taken the time to thoroughly read the manual (a current version). Some don't read it at all. It takes several passes in the manual to catch some of the smaller things that are important to safe flight.
Best of luck in your flying.
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