Hi,

I was flying the MA2 this morning. It was going fine until the point where the drone entered a small restricted area (which I didn't know about). Once inside the area, I lost pretty much all control. The drone wouldn't go forward/backward/sideways. It would only turn on itself or go up/down.

It looks like it was impossible to get out of the restricted area.

Tried Return to Home several times, but it was not coming back. Was reporting 'Obstacle in the way', which was incorrect, and stayed in place without moving. There were no obstacles whatsoever.

Moved the radio to 'Turbo', to disable 'Obstable avoidance' but no difference. Disables 'Obstacle avoidance' in the app, no difference.

It basically hovered for a couple of minutes without being able to be controlled, apart from spinning on itself. I had full video feed during all that time.

I thought it was just run out of battery and crash.

It suddenly became responsive and I was able to land...

Scary! Never had that issue before.

I would be really interested in seeing an analysis of the flight logs.  Can you upload them so one of the folks here that's good at log analysis can take a look?

Post logs, but you won’t be able to fly around in NFZ that’s the point of them and this includes RTH. it would be interesting to see logs and warnings, really you should have received prior warnings.

scary.....

Did you try to drop altitude? You might have been at the edge of the altitude limit, if any.

If you was in a NFZ area then as Hallmark said, you would not be able to move around. I got caught with this recently and flew my drone in a NFZ area and should have picked this up when it started flying forward very slowly and me failing to pay attention to this it eventually came to a stop, I drove to the area and flew the drone down to me. better to check the areas with Air share which is much more up to date with NFZ, Dji maps still catching up.

Hi fans273d858a, kindly please check if there is any warnings or error messages prompt in your app? If yes, please show us a screenshot or provide us with a screen recording video, we'd like to help you check it. Thanks.

Hi,

strange, i always thought that a drone is not allowed to fly into NFZ / restricted area.
Shouldn`t it stopped by the sofware before entering such a zone?

As asked by others, if you like upload your flightlog > https://www.phantomhelp.com/LogViewer/Upload/

cheers
JJB

It was a blue "authorization" zone as opposed to a no fly zone. I was well under the maximum altitude limit.

Quite a small zone, probably 50m x 50x on top of some military installation I didn't even know existed. No other restrictions around.

Not sure why the drone flew into it, but once inside the zone, I could only rotate or go up or down. Couldn't go forward, backward or sideways. Pressing repeatedly RTF did nothing, as "obstacle reported" messages were showing each time (but there was no obstacles). Disabling obstacle avoidance did nothing either.

Lasted for 5 long minutes. Lucky for me I had plenty of battery left.

I have uploaded the log on Phantomhelp, and there isn't a single error message captured during the 5 minutes, even during RTF (apart from "RTF cruise").

fans273d858a Posted at 9-14 02:40
I have uploaded the log on Phantomhelp, and there isn't a single error message captured during the 5 minutes, even during RTF (apart from "RTF cruise").

Can you post flight log here.

JJB* Posted at 9-13 23:52
Hi,

strange, i always thought that a drone is not allowed to fly into NFZ / restricted area.

Shouldn`t it stopped by the sofware before entering such a zone?
The usual explanation is flyers launching without GPS and flying into the NFZ.
The drone doesn't know it's in an NFZ until later when it gets GPS ... and it's too late.

Labroides Posted at 9-14 03:00
Shouldn`t it stopped by the sofware before entering such a zone?
The usual explanation is flyers launching without GPS and flying into the NFZ.
The drone doesn't know it's in an NFZ until later when it gets GPS ... and it's too late.

Thanks Labroides,

Yes, if that is the case than it will be a mess.....drone wake-ups (gps connected) in a geo zone.  OMG...

So would be nice to see this flightlog what really happend.

cheers
JJB

I had this happen to me once and it turned out I'd flown into a NFZ that only restricted altitude.  It was the very end of a runway approach for an airport about 10 miles away.  Since I could only go down, I did so and eventually I was able to fly normally again.

fans273d858a Posted at 9-14 02:20
It was a blue "authorization" zone as opposed to a no fly zone. I was well under the maximum altitude limit.

Quite a small zone, probably 50m x 50x on top of some military installation I didn't even know existed. No other restrictions around.

was this just at the beginning of your flight? I'm thinking about GPS accuracy and maybe as it acquired more satellites it suddenly realised it was in the middle of the NFZ. Very scary though, forcing the pilot to keep staying in the NFZ doesn't seem like the best option, sounds like it should allow you to exit the NFZ area...
I got such a warning once, I was flying around a small peninsula and apparently there was a military installation next to the lighthouse (I could see the radar, it was a pretty cool shot) and it told me I had entered an illegal area and to exit immediately. I panicked a bit because I didn't know exactly which way to go to exit said area and I was afraid of exactly this sort of behavior, maybe the drone landing on its own or something. It turned out ok though.