Wow, that is definitely a relief to hear that it's possible but I will just wait it out and see. The battery thing is the main lesson learned here although I will reiterate that I was aware of the battery and made the mistake of taking off with sole intentions to burn the battery down, not for a distance flight. Now i know, horrible idea.
I did not calibrate it on the metal, but I have a strong idea of where the what the metal was that caused the interference.
I did my best to recover knowing what I know, but unfortunately that wasn't enough. I am attempting to upload the video from the videocache folder but I'm not seeing one from the final flight. I wasn't recording during it and I believe thats why. I would like to upload the video from my logs on the app to also show the mayhem the aircraft was commencing, is there a way to do that?
Here is the screenshot the the log I speak of...
Yes I feel defeated regarding the situation, but I'm doing all I can to get back to where I was with the drone prior to the incident. Thanks for the positive advice and thoughts!
Well - you did nothing wrong by taking off with a battery at that level - or at least nothing that would void your warranty - unless there is some DJI documentation that says "NEVER fly with a low battery". Conventional forum wisdom/advice is not the same as a directive in your owners manual - so whether you read advice in the forum or not - is not relevant at all to that point.
Wanting to hover a few feet off the ground to discharge your battery seems like a perfectly valid explanation for why you began a flight with such a low battery level to start with. Advice from the forum is hit and miss and should never be blindly accepted. There is as much bad advice here as there is good advice. The suggestion that starting a flight with a battery lower than 100% could cause a brownout that messes up the compass or GPS is one of the most laughable suggestions I've heard here. It's simply not true. It's not the way today's electronics works.
So, when you are dealing with DJI support, don't be apologetic for making an error and don't state that you know you're not supposed to fly with a low battery. If they tell you "you're not supposed to do [fill in the blank]....", politely ask them where that is documented and/or tell them that you didn't think that would apply for a very short flight that was just intended to hover in front of you.
The minute you ADMIT that you know you did something wrong, you're done. I'm not saying that acting stupid is guaranteed to work - but if you admit that you did something wrong and that you know it - they no longer have to prove pilot error because you've admitted it and you'll likely be offered a lower discount than you would otherwise get if you cling to the story that you did nothing wrong and force them to find your mistake and prove that it was an actual mistake.
Again - good luck! I hope that things work out favourably for you! Don't forget to keep us in the loop!
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