Nice night to show off my Phantom at the family BBQ.
Calibrated. 14 Sat's All green to go.
30M away climbing slow i gave it full throttle pointing straight when it then started drifting and losing nose orientation. (in GPS auto mode) Red GPS Compass ERROR lit up.
it slowly responded irrationally and then slammed into a 45 degree told on screen and
landed in some bushes (Flight Record will be posted)
Tracked it down, cleaned it up and took it to a park to test.
enabled multi flight mode (to enable some manual input)
all functions seemed normal, no damage, Calibrated, 17 Sat's gimbal was level and balanced slow low level flights around the park were all checking ok.
As soon as I gave it full throttle it immediately again threw a red Compass error and nose was drifting.
Pressed return to home with little response other than it pointing in the wrong direction.
tried to predict and compensate the orientation it was choosing and got it swung back towards me
(All of this over a Lake!)
the return to home looked to work then it violently threw itself into another 45 degree tilt accelerting at different directions, erratic patterns then i assume it flipped over as i heard it loudly accelerate into the lake
and crash hard.
I had a P2v+ for 1 year prior and never had an of this trouble.
I would lean to a software issue as I was advised to recalibrate (cold ) the IMU, Gimbal from DJI tech support a few days prior to "resolve" a gimbal drift issue that I noticed after the latest firmware 1.9
Definitely and issue that I bet we will se more of.
If any of you are seeing compass errors more recent after 1.9 speak up!
not sure if DJI will RMA without the Drone as its in 50feet of water. (i can provide GPS if anyone wants to dive)
Credit Card company offers purchase protection for damage, theft, within 90 days. lets hope it works.
Ive already ordered a replacement but hope if it is a software issue, it can be fixed before more of this happens.
Flight Tracker Video.
updated with Director Video Cache added
full screen
First Failed flight
GPS compass errors round 1