Larson_lt
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Hey, disasterous day for me and my Matrice 100. I just got this Matrice 2 days ago, bought from Precision Hawk in their smarter farming package. I started flying it yesterday after upgrading the firmware to 1.3, controller upgrade, and compass calibration. I did two or three test flights with Dji go on a iPad around my property with no problems, flew great. So today I decided to try it autonomously on a field right behind my house like the package is intended to do. DataMapper Inflight is the app that precision hawk uses for this package. I have flown this app on my phantom 4 in the same manner with no problems, flew the waypoints and collected all pictures and came back and landed no problem. This wasn't the case for the Matrice. I preflighted the Matrice, set up the flight plan, uploaded in into the Matrice, and thought everything was set to go. I told it to take off and immediately it took off quite oddly and started flying somewhat sideways. Concerned me quite a bit, but was still heading towards the first waypoint. Upon reaching the waypoint, it just continued past it. That's when I panicked. Forgetting I can't hand control it with datamapper inflight, I tried to get control with the sticks, before realizing this wasn't going to work. I then hit the button in app to go home. It still continued on its erratic path... Fast... I decided to abandon Datamapper Inflight and quickly loaded Dji Go because it worked fine on that before, which immediately connected. Still I was not able to get control. At one point, while attempting to get control it flew a figure 8... Erratic flight, but mostly trended in a south direction. I pressed and held the return to home button and it told me it initiated but still no help. I quickly began to worry about range is it continued to get further and further away. I tried to run after it, pointless now after thinking about it as traveling way faster than I could run but I was panicked (GS after reviewing logs was around 40 mph.). It then lost link miles away from me. I ran back to the house, got in my car and took off after it, but I had no visual anymore and no connection on the iPad. It was too far gone, and I was not able to locate it, I know it's last position before lost link, but flight was erratic and who knows where it went after that. I notified the police in case someone finds it, but this is farm country and it could be anywhere. All this happened in about 10 mins or less of the 28 min flight time on the battery(was only using one) it could be anywhere. . I have absolutely no idea why it behaved like that, why I couldn't gain control and why neither of the return to home functions worked. But I am completely devastated. I have synced my flight logs if someone could please take a look and figure out what happened. Keep in mind, this doesn't cover the start of the flight as it was started with Datamapper Inflight and Dji go only was the second half. I have those logs from inflight too if anyone would like to see them. I'm confused, I'm completely bummed out as around 4K worth of aircraft just flew Away with out me being able to take control.... Please help! |
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