So at VERY Low altitude, my P3A lost connection with my remote... twice...
The first time I launched I had a good connection and plenty of satellites. I used the Go App to launch (like I usually do). It hovered at the pre-designated heght (like 3 feet or so, whatever it is). Then it just hovered there. I tried to ascend and rotate and nothing. Just stood there hovering about three feet off the ground.
I walked over and caught it and turned the battery on the AC off.
No pre-flight warnings, no radio interference warning, nothing like that.
So I turned off the RC, (having already turned off the AC), turned and restarted my phone, and tried to launch again, using the Go App to launch.
This time it made it up to about 15 feet and then the RC lost connection. It just hovered there pretty much in place, 15 feet off the ground.
I kept turning off and turning on the RC and it never regained connection.
So I stood there like an idiot in the middle of the street for about 20 minutes or so for the battery to wear down and for it to come down. I caught it as it slowly descended. No damage or anything this time.
This bird has seen a few spills. This is the first time I tried to fly it after doing an IMU calibration.
As it was hovering, the front lights were blinking red and the rear lights were blinking yellow constantly. Not in a pattern, just continuously blinking yellow.
Here are the DAT files taken from the aircraft:
Shorter one (about 30MB) of take and hovering about three feet off the ground:
Dropbox - FLY259.DAT
Longer One (about 100 MB) that was about a 15 minute flight hovering about 15 feet off the ground:
Dropbox - FLY260.DAT
And here are the text files from the DJI Go app. They are very small because the connection was lost so quickly.
Dropbox - DJIFlightRecord_2018-05-21_[15-09-58].txt
Dropbox - DJIFlightRecord_2018-05-21_[15-11-55].txt
Note: On both of those txt files it says there was a warning to unlock an authorization zone, but I never gone a screen on the app to unlock the authorization zone. Was there a TFR that I didn't know about??? Where I was flying was class G airspace.
Any thoughts?
The first time I launched I had a good connection and plenty of satellites. I used the Go App to launch (like I usually do). It hovered at the pre-designated heght (like 3 feet or so, whatever it is). Then it just hovered there. I tried to ascend and rotate and nothing. Just stood there hovering about three feet off the ground.
I walked over and caught it and turned the battery on the AC off.
No pre-flight warnings, no radio interference warning, nothing like that.
So I turned off the RC, (having already turned off the AC), turned and restarted my phone, and tried to launch again, using the Go App to launch.
This time it made it up to about 15 feet and then the RC lost connection. It just hovered there pretty much in place, 15 feet off the ground.
I kept turning off and turning on the RC and it never regained connection.
So I stood there like an idiot in the middle of the street for about 20 minutes or so for the battery to wear down and for it to come down. I caught it as it slowly descended. No damage or anything this time.
This bird has seen a few spills. This is the first time I tried to fly it after doing an IMU calibration.
As it was hovering, the front lights were blinking red and the rear lights were blinking yellow constantly. Not in a pattern, just continuously blinking yellow.
Here are the DAT files taken from the aircraft:
Shorter one (about 30MB) of take and hovering about three feet off the ground:
Dropbox - FLY259.DAT
Longer One (about 100 MB) that was about a 15 minute flight hovering about 15 feet off the ground:
Dropbox - FLY260.DAT
And here are the text files from the DJI Go app. They are very small because the connection was lost so quickly.
Dropbox - DJIFlightRecord_2018-05-21_[15-09-58].txt
Dropbox - DJIFlightRecord_2018-05-21_[15-11-55].txt
Note: On both of those txt files it says there was a warning to unlock an authorization zone, but I never gone a screen on the app to unlock the authorization zone. Was there a TFR that I didn't know about??? Where I was flying was class G airspace.
Any thoughts?
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