Shoot It WA
Second Officer
Flight distance : 3576476 ft
Australia
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TheMann58 Posted at 2018-1-1 12:01
Shoot It WA -
There is nothing wrong with your gimbal. Nor is this sudden severe gimbal tilt an issue with the latest firmware. It’s been a fact of life with the P4P since it was released. The gimbal motor on the P4P is simply not powerful enough to overcome all possible forces exerted on the P4P camera in certain flying situations. In particular, it is susceptible to gimbal motor overload resulting in abrupt sideways gimbal tilt due to winds above 15 mph coming from the side of the aircraft or g-forces during left banking turns while the aircraft is flying near full speed forward. In addition, and much more rarely, the gimbal can suddenly tilt to the side when the gimbal is pointed straight down and the aircraft is flying near full speed forward into a strong headwind. While this is a PITA, you eventually learn to minimize these occurrences during shoots and edit out the times you can’t avoid it. Remember that wind speeds aloft can be significantly higher than wind speeds at ground level. Typically, when this happens, I just reduce my aircraft speed by a few mph or alter my flight path slightly.
I think you might be right about the wind, I just checked back and I was getting strong wind warnings around the times when it did the sudden movements. Flying sideways into strong or gusty wind seems like it could probably be the culprit.
I've never had that issue with my Mavic and I've flown that in some seriously bad weather but I guess thats because the P4P camera has a much greater surface area than the Mavic's. |
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