Kestrel Scot
Second Officer
Flight distance : 71250 ft
United Kingdom
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KlooGee Posted at 4-16 06:14
Very sorry to hear about your incident. I would definitely recommend opening a case with DJI to see if they are able to find a more definitive answer to what happened.
From my amateur perspective looking at the logs, it does seem like there is a good chance the wind was too much for it to handle. Based on its angle of attack and the backwards movement in RTH, it seems like it was the wind pushing it around. Looking at the weather in the region for that day, it looks like the wind was blowing very vigorously that afternoon! And at more than 300ft (90m) up, it was likely blowing even harder.
I think your spot on with that, what surprised me at the time was that there was no wind, the lochs are indeed protected and I was getting some nice aerial shots of my partner and I on a bridge ...i raised it a bit higher and it just took off but there was no warning whatsoever ...it just seemed like a fly away incident.
Actually something I have never raised which was quite worrying happened a couple of months ago ...I was doing some filming inside an empty football stadium and all of a sudden out of the blue wind no wind whatsoever my MA took off just over ground level at a very fast rate. On that occasion I managed to lower it and crash it into some advertising boards which didn't matter as I had propeller guards on, the MA sustained just a couple of scratches ...if i hadn't managed to lower and crash it then it would of been gone at a very fast rate, a very strange incident which i would think was almost certainly a fly off but I have no idea what could of caused it.
DJI seriously need to be putting trackers now inside these drones, especially for a drone over £500 I think thats fair enough ...even if it works on a subscription basis.
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