Mark Weiss
Second Officer
United States
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Today I took the second flight with the new firmware. This time the head LEDs were off on takeoff, like they should be.
We noticed that the camera had reverted to 4K 30 mode again, despite my setting it to 4K 24 after the firmware update.
The alarming part was that while my wife was setting up Active Track, the AIRCRAFT DISCONNECTED. Battery was at about 53% when it happened. It was about 40' away at the time. She handed the RC to me and I found that I could still control it, but not completely. For instance, I pull back on the right stick and the AC would not go backward. I tried rebooting the Crystal Sky, but it never reconnected. Then I tried shutting off both the CS and the RC and restarting both, but again, it never reconnected. Had the drone been a mile or two off in the distance, I can see how a pilot would lose the drone.
I was finally able to manually land it, but the inability to go backwards to line up with the landing pad was disturbing.
We rebooted the drone and the RC/CS and finished up our training for the day on the remaining 45% battery.
I'm planning to shoot the fireworks tomorrow night in town, with a ground camera that is recording sound, plus the P4P 2.0 in the air for an alternate angle, but this disconnecting problem has me debating whether to ground the aircraft until the cause is found and corrected.
Looking at the log, there's no hint of a problem. The last entry is P-GPS, 16 satellites IMU alt is 22.3' VPS is 24' speed 0mph, home distance 81.6', battery 64%, no messages. So the AC disconnected and the log on the CS ends there with no hint of trouble.
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