Focus4
lvl.2
Flight distance : 2436886 ft
United States
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Lyle Posted at 2017-1-28 11:17
My symptoms are a limp, dangling, camera. It will not respond to the RC controls. In fact, after flying a small 10 acre site with a survey pattern, it was looking upside down on the way back. In other words, the camera went from looking straight down, to looking beyond straight down and backwards, so the image was upside down. Makes me nervous for my upcoming job.
It's a gimbal roll error. I have had it happen three times - most recently today. I land, reboot the aircraft, calibrate the gimbal and everything is fine. I think it happens when the gimbal gets overloaded for one reason or another. I have had it happen in cold weather and warm, but always in fairly high winds and when making fairly quick moves with the aircraft. I think the gimbal tries to make a move outside of its capabilities and just waves the white flag. I don't think its something that requires maintenance...just a software reboot. A previous respondent said a firmware update might be coming for this. It would be nice if the gimbal could recover from the error without having to end the flight. |
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