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 lvl.2
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I have browsed these forums for quite some time and I have seen all of the fly-aways, crashes, etc. posts and have always wondered about them because I have never had a single issue with any of my DJI drones. I have owned a Phantom 1, Inspire 1, Phantom 4, and now the Mavic.
I got the Mavic about 3 weeks ago and have been flying it alot. Many successful flights. I've been so amazed by it so far. Today I was doing what I thought was one of the simplest shoots with the Mavic. In my backyard, where I have flown all of my drones many times, hovering around our trampoline as I filmed my kids jumping around. 7-8' off the ground hovering, maybe a slight push forward or backwards for effect. About 10 minutes into the filming the Mavic just dropped. My hands werent even on the sticks at the time. Fortunately not above the trampoline, but outside of it. Even though there isnt much too visible damage to the Mavic from the short fall, it no longer powers up. The battery powers up, the controller powers up, but the drone never powers.
I have sent in a ticket to DJI so now I guess I just wait to hear back. Bummer, as we are heading to Mexico next week and I wanted to take it. On the bright side, I am just happy it happened the way it did and not when it was out away from me and out of my control. No one got hurt, no property damaged, etc. Could have been so much worse.
One thing to note... I did upgrade the firmware to the latest version before the flight. Upgrade said successful just like any other firmware upgrade.
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