SteadyWTF
Second Officer
Flight distance : 3963865 ft
United States
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I hear that man.. Happens to me all the time.
I recently got the whopper of all DJI GO app screw ups... I was on a trip out for my company on a whale expedition.
I wasn't getting a good satellite read and figured I wasn't going to, being in the Pacific Ocean and all. However all of the visible diagnostics looked great, did a calibration, (which somehow succeeded even without a full set of satellites). Did a quick test flight over the boat, still not enough sats. Everything seemed to be working great but in hindsight the DJI GO had been giving me trouble all week.
So I started to take it out, when all of the sudden the DJI GO ap had PERFECT satellite signals. Since the GPS engaged us we finally had our maps up, thank goodness---so I thought. Unknowingly we had entered a no fly zone, we were flying at 12 feet (well below the boats height) chasing a whale more then a mile off the coast with no initial satellite to feed us this information when we took off. We would have never intentionally flied in an NFZ, but when you're out on the ocean with no reference point and no airplanes in site, the last thing on your mind is there maybe an airport in the middle of the water.
Sorry I digress. So the DJI GO decides to work with GPS, however right then the firmware (which I literally just uploaded the newest version) had a new feature.. YUP- GEO Fencing ! The drone was sent right on down into the Pacific .. It landed in the Pacific Ocean. BYE drone. DJI initially claimed that there were apparently two warning phases and it would have hovered. I told them straight out that this was false. Which they now admit to.
So that taught me a lesson about trusting DJI GO, as well as the new firmware updates. ALWAYS make sure the DJI GO ap is working correctly. Turn on and off the application if you feel like something is amiss ( and even then you may be SOL). Reboot the remote, DJI GO, and the drone if you feel like something is wrong. IF you don't you may find your drone on the bottom of the Ocean while DJI refuses to acknowledge any bugs at all.
Lots of money down the drain! It's kinda funny, because they initially denied the drone would go straight down, and now it is part of their color chart for specific airspace saying exactly what I told them.
Point being, we their clients are the true Beta testers, whether we signed up for it or not!!
PS. They did NOT offer to replace my drone. When they learned that I was right about the drone not hovering they offered me 30 percent off a new drone.. I declined |
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