Horizon Leveling Issue - Are YOU affected too?
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Henrik Olsen
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[size=14.6667px]I’m having problems keeping the horizon level during flight. I’m on my 3rd Mavic now with this issue. I have made this video show the problem and collect feedback to establish the magnitude of the problem.

[size=14.6667px]Are you affected by this as well?[size=14.6667px]

2017-11-26
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rolling56
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It's to hilly here to be able to test this here in the Ozarks. Plus the tree lines are all up and down too.
I would be spending all my time trying to get the horizon straight and not flying lol I really don't think i have this problem but will keep an eye on it.


2017-11-26
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StanfordWebbie
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I'm pretty sure that the issue is the mountains in the Netherlands.  They're causing your country to tilt just a bit.  
Seriously, my Mavic's gimbal did show a tilted horizon after a small crash.  Nothing seemed damaged except that tilt.  I am able to eliminate it with the gimbal adjustment command that you showed in your video.  I'm at a +9 degrees, so not much room left if anything gets worse.  But, it's staying level with that adjustment, so my problem has been solved since it first showed up a couple of months ago.  I'll be watching this thread to see if my problem might be due to something more than that light crash.
2017-11-26
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I can't watch the video, but yes my Mavic does not always re-level the camera when I fly sideways, it seems to lean a few degrees, and then somewhat very slowly corrects when I stop, but not fully. Most of my videos are leaning to the side one way or the other.
2017-11-26
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sigkill Posted at 2017-11-26 19:10
I can't watch the video, but yes my Mavic does not always re-level the camera when I fly sideways, it seems to lean a few degrees, and then somewhat very slowly corrects when I stop, but not fully. Most of my videos are leaning to the side one way or the other.

Could you please upload a video of your case so I can learn some info in it.
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DJI Thor
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Hi Henrik, please help to confirm the gimbal is not in FPV mode, and according to your video, it only tilts in one direction, right? Will have our engineers to confirm, will come back later once I hear from them.
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All the DJI drones do this whilst strafing. Check YouTube &there are videos a few years old showing same issue. You can be on your 500th Mavic & it'll do it, so good luck!
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Henrik Olsen
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DJI Thor Posted at 2017-11-26 20:35
Hi Henrik, please help to confirm the gimbal is not in FPV mode, and according to your video, it only tilts in one direction, right? Will have our engineers to confirm, will come back later once I hear from them.

Yes, only to one side
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Little John
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Mine is the same too!
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Sorry for the late update, could you please help to name the firmware info, I would like to forward it to our engineers to check. Thanks for your feedback.
2017-11-30
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M.C. Pilot
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There's an option to adjust in settings. I've done it on the MP.
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Henrik Olsen
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DJI Thor Posted at 2017-11-30 04:33
Sorry for the late update, could you please help to name the firmware info, I would like to forward it to our engineers to check. Thanks for your feedback.

It's been sent back to DJI after talking to your support team.
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M.C. Pilot Posted at 2017-11-30 05:13
There's an option to adjust in settings. I've done it on the MP.

yes, but this happens dynamically
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Henrik Olsen Posted at 2017-11-30 07:24
It's been sent back to DJI after talking to your support team.

Thank you for the update, we will help to take care of it. Hope you can get the drone back soon.
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Henrik Olsen
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[size=14.6667px]Did DJI manage to fix my Horizon?

[size=14.6667px]I have been looking forward to giving you an update on the DJI Horizon Horizon Issue that I talked about in one of my previous video Mavic Pro Horizon Issue



Just a note: The DJI Go 4 App shows battery status error. This happens because of the intelligent discharge of the battery where it goes to 66%, then Mavic get's confused when you fly. Did not have time to fully charge them before testing
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AG0N-Gary
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My P3A did this too.  I think it is just a "feature" of DJI.  My Mavic is better, but I notice the same symptoms.  When I launch, I climb up a bit and look at the horizon to see where it is.  Then I rotate 360 and stop in the same direction.  It usually leans heavily at that point and then VERY slowly relevels itself.  I'll sometimes go both directions 360 before letting it hover and check results.  When it settles down, I manually adjust it if necessary.  All the current firmware and software is loaded.  Other than that, not a hitch in the way this Nov/16 made MP works.
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Krevvy
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Yep it's an unfortunate feature of the mavic.. randomly it can't get the horizon level
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