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DirkGerrit
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After weeks of terrible weather today I could fly with my spark. Two fligths went well. The third flight the spark went into Atti mode after a lot of yaw errors. I was able to land in Atti mode but I am very curious what I did wrong and I want to learn how to avoid this the next time. Spark has the laterst firmware and my Iphone 6s the latest IOS. The weather was good, almost no wind. Any tips?

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DirkGerrit
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Following this thread with interest. The error you have received are very similar to what some others here have experienced and no explanation has been given by DJI.
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Other than taking off with a very low battery temperature I do not believe this to be pilot error. Nothing in the flight record shouts out anything except a malfunction with the drone - especially given that this is your 3rd consecutive flight at the same location with no issues on the first 2 flights. Yep - it would be nice if DJI replied to your post here as I too am interested to see why this happened given that this is not an isolated case.
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Bright Spark
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Batt temp warning at takeoff. Seems odd requiring more than 15 gegrees.
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A CW Posted at 2018-1-21 06:50
Other than taking off with a very low battery temperature I do not believe this to be pilot error. Nothing in the flight record shouts out anything except a malfunction with the drone - especially given that this is your 3rd consecutive flight at the same location with no issues on the first 2 flights. Yep - it would be nice if DJI replied to your post here as I too am interested to see why this happened given that this is not an isolated case.

Exactly...the flying environment looks to be ideal.  No buildings, power lines, etc..  The OP was flying at a minimal altitude & distance.
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Tviscomi Posted at 2018-1-21 06:55
Exactly...the flying environment looks to be ideal.  No buildings, power lines, etc..  The OP was flying at a minimal altitude & distance.

And he even hovered for a while to warm the battery to the required 20c+ and being his third flight in a row the drone would have been warm anyway.
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How would the speed of the wind at 100' above the home point cause the drone to experience a yaw error before encountering a compass failure and switching to ATTI mode one second later?
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DirkGerrit Posted at 2018-1-21 07:12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu4JdanD4V0&feature=youtu.be

This is the video footage of this flight
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A CW Posted at 2018-1-21 07:02
How would the speed of the wind at 100' above the home point cause the drone to experience a yaw error before encountering a compass failure and switching to ATTI mode one second later?

Windspeed was 2 beaufort, temp 7 degrees celsius
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OP, just for the heck of it try opening a support case with DJI and see what they have to say about the issue(s)
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DirkGerrit Posted at 2018-1-21 07:15
Windspeed was 2 beaufort, temp 7 degrees celsius

Exactly - the wind was not the cause of your incident and bears no relevance to the malfunction.
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Bright Spark
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Hi , sorry, I saw he said no wind afterwards . apologies to all.
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Bright Spark
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Just a few observations. I'm keen to learn how to analyse these problems and welcome corrections.

I feel a batt temp of 15 is not very low and I wouldn't fly if that error appeared at start  up. I must say I think it was  a fresh battery looking at the cell voltage.
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This is the one issue I have seen with the spark, getting YAW errors and going into ATTI mode. Please DJI inform us as to why it would do this with nothing around to interfere with GPS or Wifi
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csv

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between 130 secs to 171 secs, gps health dips to zero but csv records only reflect primarily yaw errors. Also satellite counts are still healthy.
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Bright Spark
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Just interested in what is the speed scale on the red track at max. Almost full speed just precedes the gps failure.?
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YAW reference during the flight versus the grey area in ATTI mode.
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Bright Spark Posted at 2018-1-21 08:02
Just interested in what is the speed scale on the red track at max. Almost full speed just precedes the gps failure.?

Top speed prior to ATTI mode was at 0.36m/sec
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At exactly 146 there is a burst of speed on film.
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rimza Posted at 2018-1-21 07:51
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between 130 secs to 171 secs, gps health dips to zero but csv records only reflect primarily yaw errors. Also satellite counts are still healthy.

HI Rimza, is this figure made with the data from the flightrecord.txt file?if not, from where did you have this data ?
Just very curious because i am working on a analysis program myself.
cheers JJB
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JJBspark Posted at 2018-1-21 08:22
HI Rimza, is this figure made with the data from the flightrecord.txt file?

yes, easier to see in graphical form. Use CsvView.
http://datfile.net/CsvView/intro.html
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rimza Posted at 2018-1-21 08:23
yes, easier to see in graphical form. Use CsvView.
http://datfile.net/CsvView/intro.html

true, but i do not see the YAW ERROR LARGE in there.....

see my chart with the same data
spark analysis.png
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select nongpscause and the yaw errors pop up The pink area is the duration AC reporting large yaw error.
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Did you look at the compass direction before and after the flight? I mean did the symbol on the screen show the AC was pointing correctly?
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Bright Spark
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At about 3.56, the ac is dislodged in the grass , motors running?
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I would work backwards. You have a great big field. Try and reproduce the problem.
Fly upwind  with compass sensor screen selected, close in, and see if compass goes yellow/red with various moves and speeds.
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Further to my observations, it could , I say could ,be that after a spell of highish speed, if a turn is instigated purely by yaw input, the spark will continue through inertia straight on for a while. The gps tracking will then be at variance with compass and/or gyro input.
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stealther Posted at 2018-1-21 11:21
Did you look at the compass direction before and after the flight? I mean did the symbol on the screen show the AC was pointing correctly?

no, the flight before I did but this flight I forgot..
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Bright Spark Posted at 2018-1-21 11:27
At about 3.56, the ac is dislodged in the grass , motors running?

I stopped the motors when the spark landed in the gras, when I walked to the point the spark landed I didn't,  see the spark so I started the engine again and found it.
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Bright Spark
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Thought so!
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Tviscomi Posted at 2018-1-21 07:19
OP, just for the heck of it try opening a support case with DJI and see what they have to say about the issue(s)

Want to do another flight and see if the problem persists before opening a support case
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I hope you will contact dji support, because this is a relevant incident and is second in a row. Lucky you, it is the last in a cue and second where the owner managed to recover the aircraft. I would no doubt be glad your contact dji support and see support itself following with an official statement about it. Curiously if you search the forum you will found the same incident. A guy in Belgium (close to you) in an open field like the one you were flying with a river at his west. Same bit of wind (no wind alarm) and went to atti after a steep turn...and gone with the wind for 500ft.
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DirkGerrit Posted at 2018-1-21 12:10
Want to do another flight and see if the problem persists before opening a support case

Sir, please export the flight data and the black box for analysis. Did you crash your drone before? Thanks for your help.
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DJI Elektra Posted at 2018-1-22 02:36
Sir, please export the flight data and the black box for analysis. Did you crash your drone before? Thanks for your help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngEHdAlAh9A

Hello DJI Elektra, the drone didn't crash, it landed safely. I never had a crash with the spark. I will find out how to export the flight data and black box, then I will send it.
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DirkGerrit Posted at 2018-1-22 10:40
Hello DJI Elektra, the drone didn't crash, it landed safely. I never had a crash with the spark. I will find out how to export the flight data and black box, then I will send it.

How and where can I send the log files?
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DirkGerrit Posted at 2018-1-22 11:32
How and where can I send the log files?

Dji elektra, the logfiles are on my harddisk. How do I sent it to you?
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