Hello there!
I am new to the forums and wondered if anyone could help troubleshoot some of the issues that I have been having with my Phantom 4 Pro drone. Recently, our family went up north to our cabin, which is on a lake. I thought that this would be a good opportunity to fly around a bit since I hadn't used the drone much during the winter. I took the drone out for a flight, taking it off from the deck on the cabin, and flew it over the lake. I didn't think much of this at the time, but the drone did move quite a lot while it was in the hover position. I kept flying until the drone went into attitude mode and started drifting away. I had never flown in this mode before, so I was slightly nervous and decided to bring the drone back to land it. The battery was getting low anyways. While I was bringing it back, the controller suddenly lost connection with the drone and I no longer had control. At this point, I panicked and started frantically pressing the RTH button, which I thought would solve the problem. It didn't. But, after a few seconds, the drone was connected again and I flew it home. After this I was afraid to fly the drone again there, so when we got home, I recalibrated the IMU and the compass on a flat, level field, and when I flew it, I still noticed the drifting issue (I had been noticing this issue since I got the drone), and after about 5 minuted of flying, the drone briefly went into attitude mode again, so I landed it.
To sum it up, my drone has a few issues that I can't figure out how to solve.
1. The drone has a pretty significant amount of yaw drift and also drifts while it is hovering.
2. The drone sometimes loses its GPS signal and once lost its signal altogether.
If anyone has any ideas about how to fix these problems, or why they happen, that would be great!
I am new to the forums and wondered if anyone could help troubleshoot some of the issues that I have been having with my Phantom 4 Pro drone. Recently, our family went up north to our cabin, which is on a lake. I thought that this would be a good opportunity to fly around a bit since I hadn't used the drone much during the winter. I took the drone out for a flight, taking it off from the deck on the cabin, and flew it over the lake. I didn't think much of this at the time, but the drone did move quite a lot while it was in the hover position. I kept flying until the drone went into attitude mode and started drifting away. I had never flown in this mode before, so I was slightly nervous and decided to bring the drone back to land it. The battery was getting low anyways. While I was bringing it back, the controller suddenly lost connection with the drone and I no longer had control. At this point, I panicked and started frantically pressing the RTH button, which I thought would solve the problem. It didn't. But, after a few seconds, the drone was connected again and I flew it home. After this I was afraid to fly the drone again there, so when we got home, I recalibrated the IMU and the compass on a flat, level field, and when I flew it, I still noticed the drifting issue (I had been noticing this issue since I got the drone), and after about 5 minuted of flying, the drone briefly went into attitude mode again, so I landed it.
To sum it up, my drone has a few issues that I can't figure out how to solve.
1. The drone has a pretty significant amount of yaw drift and also drifts while it is hovering.
2. The drone sometimes loses its GPS signal and once lost its signal altogether.
If anyone has any ideas about how to fix these problems, or why they happen, that would be great!