WindSoul
lvl.3
Canada
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I have hit the wall while flying indoors. It was in p mode, while indoors the attitude mode is recommended.
Problem is that the hit brought the drone with propeller rotation plane vertical and my first attempt was to shut down the motors( sticks at center low). Only that the drone motors did not shutdown as expected, the drone seemed to ramp up, as if automatically tried to enter hovering mode.
The book says do not perform motor stick shutdown wile in flight because the drone will drop with motors off. If the drone motors would shutdown, in my case there will be no damage. Not only they did not shutdown, but I managed to catch the drone by hand while was still crawling desperately up the wall, in an almost vertical position ( imagine propellers plane normally is horizontal, in that instance was parallel to the vertical wall)
To my surprise, now the motors were raving up like crazy, as if it tried to recover back to the wall. I could only shut it down by removing the battery. With the motors turning, it was chilling.
On a good note, don't ask how but the drone escaped unscathed.
Now the question: is it possible that the motor shutoff command was disregarded while the drone took over in the attempt to automatically recover?
I am worried that there might be instances ( like attitude recovery following inflight frontal crash) when the drone could disregard controller commands. I can see that useful when hitting a branch or surviving a bird attack, but in my case it felt uncontrollable.
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