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Yesterday I was victim of a FlyAway. It indeed happens. I was in the preflight agenda to take some shots of a Susan K. For the Cure Race and note an unusual delay of the bird to lock at least 6 satellites. It stay in five and I decide to re initiate the process. In the second attempt and after a while it lock and unlock the 6th a couple of times and finally it appear to gave me green light to take off with 6 locked satellites. Whitin seconds or so in the air it begin to drift away with no control of my inputs, both switches in the upper position. I immediately with it in sight move S1 to atti and was able to regain control. Then move it closer to me and after a while return it to gps, and hover for some time verifying its manners. After this scarying seconds the rest was a usual good flight. I think that maybe the lack of sufficient satellites in the air was the reason of its uncontrolled drift away. Here is the short vid of this unpleasant experience, at 1:10 it begin the flyaway uncontrolled action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45CL2fK ... e=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45CL2fK ... e=youtu.be