electrongod!
lvl.1
Flight distance : 7864 ft
United States
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First. Thank you all for such a wonderful resource for new pilots.
After months of research I finally decided to get my feet wet with a Mavic Air. Can not be happier. First week I flew with training wheels (blade Protectors). Took them off and two weeks later I was flying without Beginner mode. Now Im getting cocky. After 30+ flights I decided to venture out into Dronedom and made a flight that was 1500 feet away from my home to hopefully capture footage of a heard of yet unfound structure in the woods behind my house. Flew to the area, hands a' shakin' and returned my MA safely home. Couldn't see much on my iphone x during the flight but when I looked at the footage on my laptop, Bingo! Decided to do the same flight the next day to get a closer look.
Trouble started when I tried to calibrate my compass. Fail, Fail, Fail. Never happened before in the same spot. I'm in a yellow zone so I have to get self permission to fly. No problem. Re Calibrate compass. Fail. Now I see a message on my phone, "IMU failure, Recalibrate Compass." Fail, Fail, Fail.
Starting to worry. Restart the MA and controller. Calibrate compass. Good. Ready to fly. All good. Take off and set up precise landing and away I go.
Fly to my destination and start getting notifications about poor or lost signal. Notice that video and MA response is erratic. I get scared and punch the RTH button.
After several minutes of trying to explain to my wife how I can justify an $800 loss, I hear a welcome sound. My MA is overhead and landing.
My altitude was 200 ft.
In past flights my MA landed within inches of the black X I have on my patio using RTH. This time it was about 15' away before it tried to land. Aborted RTH and safely landed.
Did I do something wrong?
Changed my EVA setting for the camera prior to this flight, but I understand that only effects flight response.
Thanks all. Any help will be appreciated
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