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+1 on this entire thread, exactly the same experience, to the letter. In general the Crystal Sky for me has always had worrisome connection problems with the Mavic controller. It always seemed tricky to get them to connect in the first place, certainly at the beginning. Then I found a repeatable procedure that seemed to work - turn on drone, then controller, wait for connection, then turn on the Crystal Sky, in that order. I also swapped the USB cable out for a 'gold' Amazon Basics USB cable, which felt like it helped, although I'm not sure if it did. Certainly some USB cables did not work at all.
This all worked swimmingly for a while.... Then things got weird a couple of months back, I started having weird connection issues during flight. It caused me to stop flying altogether. It just felt too unreliable. It felt I had no choice but to wait for a firmware update (or two), to fix things.
Then this week, I dusted off my Mavic, updated all firmware, including the remote controller, and things were better again. Now today, two flights in a row, complete disconnect during flight, and no way to get it reconnected during flight. I tried the exact same things as everyone above. The only way to get it reconnected is to restart the controller, which obviously is scary as all hell to do during flight.
I don't suspect foul play, I feel something was going wrong before the new Mavic 2, and perhaps its been partly addressed with the latest firmware, but not totally.
I've eliminated the USB cable / connection as a possible issue. If you disconnect the USB cable, the Crystal Sky top right says 'Disconnected', with a grey background. When it happens randomly during flight, the message is 'Aircraft Disconnected' against a red background. This, and the fact you have to restart the controller, suggests to me the remote controller is at fault.
The first time it happened I thought my drone was gone. But as others have said, the remote controller does stay connected, so you can do a RTH, which saved my ***, because I was flying totally blind at the time.
In separate news, why oh why can't we get an option to disable upgrades and upgrade notifications, once we find a firmware version that works nice. I'm tired of this nonsense. |
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