Hi
I had my first fly away this morning.
I landed the drone after my battery began to run low and then popped a new one in. After taking off and climbing to about 30 feet the drone took off by itself to the east reaching 45mph (way over the normal max of 30 or so). I tried to fly it back in, when I realized it wasn't responding I put it in Atti mode with no luck. It continued till it was out of sight and could no longer get a video feed.
After about 3 1/2 minutes the drone returned a bit beat up. It was clear that it had a run in with something, gimbal broke, chassis scuffed, and landing gear partially knocked out.
I did calibrate the compass before my take off with the first battery. I did not re-calibrate it when I swapped in the second before the fly away. (I didn't think this needed to be done, but correct me if I'm wrong)
I'm including a link to the happy drone data. It continued a lot longer than what was logged, and I didn't see any errors for the compass or gps, but this is the first time I have ever looked over the data like this.
Thanks for any insight!
Video cuts out before collision, I'm guessing what was recorded right up to the crash was probably in the buffer and not yet written to the SD card. The fly away begins soon as the drone starts to move horizontaly.
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I had my first fly away this morning.
I landed the drone after my battery began to run low and then popped a new one in. After taking off and climbing to about 30 feet the drone took off by itself to the east reaching 45mph (way over the normal max of 30 or so). I tried to fly it back in, when I realized it wasn't responding I put it in Atti mode with no luck. It continued till it was out of sight and could no longer get a video feed.
After about 3 1/2 minutes the drone returned a bit beat up. It was clear that it had a run in with something, gimbal broke, chassis scuffed, and landing gear partially knocked out.
I did calibrate the compass before my take off with the first battery. I did not re-calibrate it when I swapped in the second before the fly away. (I didn't think this needed to be done, but correct me if I'm wrong)
I'm including a link to the happy drone data. It continued a lot longer than what was logged, and I didn't see any errors for the compass or gps, but this is the first time I have ever looked over the data like this.
Thanks for any insight!
Video cuts out before collision, I'm guessing what was recorded right up to the crash was probably in the buffer and not yet written to the SD card. The fly away begins soon as the drone starts to move horizontaly.
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