If you are honestly losing signal flying directly above you, flying out a short ways will cure it.
Don't give out all the secrets bud!!
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If you are honestly losing signal flying directly above you, flying out a short ways will cure it.
Not at all. 900 feet is nothing.
Why would you think that? The only thing you would have to do is turn your antenna facing up instead of out if you have a weak signal. Even if you lost signal, the failsafe would kick in and it would just land.
No issues at all.
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I just might go that route. Agreed as far as the damage - even though it's banged up beyond reasonable repair, when I heard it hit down in the canyon, I thought for sure that it would be completely shattered.
The way it was explained to me is this, the signal comes out of the bottom of the AC in a cone shape but with a blind spot directly below. The higher up it goes the wider the spread of the blind spot. Around 1K is where the blind spot is too wide and the signal is lost.
I was thinking the same after watching some videos of safe helicopter landing after motor loss. The term is autorotation. The pilot has to train this regularly.DJI should implement a failsafe algorithm that detects and maintains control after a prop or motor is lost. Before you say you can not control a quadcopter with 3 props, watch this:
You can, you just lose yaw control.
I was thinking the same after watching some videos of safe helicopter landing after motor loss. The term is autorotation. The pilot has to train this regularly.
DJI could implement an algoritme that gives the drone some stability even after a motor failure and a lost or damaged prop.
Just guessing but pretty much sounds like you lost a prop (either it came off, struck something, or shattered).
Remarkable it survived so well.
Must be a heart stopping moment!
And you're correct, but on signal loss it should have done an RTH, which is why most are saying prop failure.
My guess is that a prop spun off after a collision with a bird. The OP says he checked tightness prior to the flight so it's less likely that it just spun off on its own. I also don't think it's as likely that the entire thing shattered to the point that even the hub is no longer screwed on. I think that if he performed an exhaustive search over the debris field, he would eventually find the missing prop fully intact.
There is no proof that I am right - big if a Vegas line existed on this "prop" (pun intended), I'd put $10 down on it being a spin off due to a mid-air collision with a bird, snake or turtle. (Most likely a bird.)
I was thinking the same after watching some videos of safe helicopter landing after motor loss. The term is autorotation. The pilot has to train this regularly.
DJI could implement an algoritme that gives the drone some stability even after a motor failure and a lost or damaged prop.
Is the prop broken by impact or other cause? Last I heard we still didn't have a cause for the crash.
BH Photo has the air craft without the gimble for 375
I am trying to find a main board as mine crashed into a pond and after fishing out and drying out throughly the IMU is screwed.