benjaminv
lvl.1
Canada
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I recently took my drone on a solo canoe camping trip in Canada. I was flying the drone over the lake taking video of my campsite from birds eye view. It wasn't terribly windy that day, maybe 10kmph so the mini was fine, and I was flying in sport mode. I brought it down to hover around 12 feet above the water to take one last shot, and before I could begin moving forward, the drone just started to drop in altitude, lower and lower, I quickly realized what was going to happen if I didn't do anything so almost immediatley I pushed the "ascend" or "up" joystick to raise the altitude of the drone. It didn't respond to any of my input and kept lowering its altitude. It continued to do this as I helplessly watched, and then it hit the water, for a split second after it hit the water it reacted to my up joystick finally, then sunk again never to be seen in the black abyss of cold canadian water. Obviously I'm frustrated, and I felt quite helpless here as the drone didn't react to my input.
I know nothing can be done, but I just at least want to be able to understand WHY it happened. (Is it the VPS glitching over water relfections?) I'll post my flight log and a link to the footage.
The file is bigger then the 1000kb limit on the forum so here's the google drive link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1thTT8NmbIxYdurP72ozMjmcd2y819KIi/view?usp=sharing
Here is the YouTube clip of the drone hittiing the water when it started descending...
https://youtu.be/kBQdojf03-4
Online Log Viewer link:
https://www.phantomhelp.com/LogViewer/06UTXZ2FVIOJWPM6HEBX/#
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