Well after having survived the last couple of years of flying my phantoms without the oft reported FW and SW glitches, it was my turn today. I was asked by the president of the local golf club to get some aerial footage of the course as they had no idea of what the place looked like from the air and they had never seen a drone before. Perfect opportunity to show off the features of a flying camera and sneak in a quick nine holes and walk out of the place looking like Dirk Pit.
The president turned up with the rest of the golf club board, shut down the course for an hour and watched me set up my P4 and were amazed at the general look of the package. I went through my normal checks, checked the mission I had planned for the course, fired her up, took off and listened to comments similar to the second coming of Jesus.
Loaded the mission, no problems, halfway between the first two WPs I received a disconnect message. Having never received that message before in well over 50 missions, I thought I'd just bring Dorothy back and restart the mission. Nope, the gimbal went limp and I had to fight to get to her back on the ground. The drone thrashed around, was very sluggish even though I still had a full control signal. I cycled both the AC and RC, received no further warnings and took off again. This time my height was limited to 30 mtrs and checking my log in status, found I was logged out. I landed and tried to log back in but given there is neither 4G or wifi access, that was never going to happen.
All the while the small crowd around me started to disperse and prepare to leave whilst I was simply seething that this has happened and I can only imagine the grief that professional drone pilots must go through when this befalls them.
On a better note, the president suggested I may as well have a round of golf and get rid of my frustration, so I did and came back with 5 over the card.
I've since deleted the Litchi app and reinstalled, logged back in and will try again in a couple of days. Also running the latest FW and DJI4 app with no problems on iOS 11.1.2.
The president turned up with the rest of the golf club board, shut down the course for an hour and watched me set up my P4 and were amazed at the general look of the package. I went through my normal checks, checked the mission I had planned for the course, fired her up, took off and listened to comments similar to the second coming of Jesus.
Loaded the mission, no problems, halfway between the first two WPs I received a disconnect message. Having never received that message before in well over 50 missions, I thought I'd just bring Dorothy back and restart the mission. Nope, the gimbal went limp and I had to fight to get to her back on the ground. The drone thrashed around, was very sluggish even though I still had a full control signal. I cycled both the AC and RC, received no further warnings and took off again. This time my height was limited to 30 mtrs and checking my log in status, found I was logged out. I landed and tried to log back in but given there is neither 4G or wifi access, that was never going to happen.
All the while the small crowd around me started to disperse and prepare to leave whilst I was simply seething that this has happened and I can only imagine the grief that professional drone pilots must go through when this befalls them.
On a better note, the president suggested I may as well have a round of golf and get rid of my frustration, so I did and came back with 5 over the card.
I've since deleted the Litchi app and reinstalled, logged back in and will try again in a couple of days. Also running the latest FW and DJI4 app with no problems on iOS 11.1.2.
