Hi, yesterday i took my PS3 out and smashed my distance record. Achieved 1706m using only a windsurfer, previous best was 900m. Was well chuffed!
Today i went to a new location at a beach. Calibrated the compass and got ready to take off. Auto Take-Off would not work when swiped, phoned displayed a message about the compass and to contact DJI if the problem continued. I tried again and same result. I switched every thing off and on, this time it worked as normal.
I put the bird in the air but kept it fairly close (max 150m away) as i had read on here about compass issues.
Everything seamed to be going ok, fully responsive, flew for about 15mins. I then decided to put the bird in Point of View Mode (it was close to me at this point) I selected the point and moved it out the diameter, the bird then started to rotate but then disconnected from the phone. I tried to bring it closer to me to land, but it was still moving sideways when i was trying to bring it down, so i raised it again and flicked switch s2 to GPS Hotpoint mode, this gave better control but the landing was a lot rougher than any previous ones.
I was relieved the bird was down safely, and still had about 40% battery left. I tried to reconnect to the DJI Go app (iphone) but no joy. I switched every thing off and on again, everything normal so i had another flight for a couple of minutes (keep low and close) to make sure it was ok.
This was the first time i did not receive any "Strong Interference" warnings (yesterday had 269!)
I was still using the Windsurfer when point into POI mode, could this have resulted in the lost connection when directly overhead? Would have thought i would have re-connected when i was trying to land it as it was directly in front of me, even when it eventually landed it would still not reconnect to the app - i checked my wi-fi and it was connected to the P3S - had to switch all off before i could connect again.
Any thoughts on what went wrong?
Airdata UAV - Flight Data Analysis for Drones
Today i went to a new location at a beach. Calibrated the compass and got ready to take off. Auto Take-Off would not work when swiped, phoned displayed a message about the compass and to contact DJI if the problem continued. I tried again and same result. I switched every thing off and on, this time it worked as normal.
I put the bird in the air but kept it fairly close (max 150m away) as i had read on here about compass issues.
Everything seamed to be going ok, fully responsive, flew for about 15mins. I then decided to put the bird in Point of View Mode (it was close to me at this point) I selected the point and moved it out the diameter, the bird then started to rotate but then disconnected from the phone. I tried to bring it closer to me to land, but it was still moving sideways when i was trying to bring it down, so i raised it again and flicked switch s2 to GPS Hotpoint mode, this gave better control but the landing was a lot rougher than any previous ones.
I was relieved the bird was down safely, and still had about 40% battery left. I tried to reconnect to the DJI Go app (iphone) but no joy. I switched every thing off and on again, everything normal so i had another flight for a couple of minutes (keep low and close) to make sure it was ok.
This was the first time i did not receive any "Strong Interference" warnings (yesterday had 269!)
I was still using the Windsurfer when point into POI mode, could this have resulted in the lost connection when directly overhead? Would have thought i would have re-connected when i was trying to land it as it was directly in front of me, even when it eventually landed it would still not reconnect to the app - i checked my wi-fi and it was connected to the P3S - had to switch all off before i could connect again.
Any thoughts on what went wrong?
Airdata UAV - Flight Data Analysis for Drones
