All,
I'm hoping someone might be able to explain why this happened as I have since lost all confidence in my Anafi due to it's unpredictable behavior. Yesterday while flying for a real estate photo shoot, I have the Anafi hovering at about 45-50 ft, AGL while I'm setting up for the next shot and when I look down, the screen is nothing but static and I have no control. I had only been in the air about 6-8 minutes or so so I knew I had some time to try and reconnect.
I tried everything I could think of to reconnect. Closed and opened the controller, unplugged and plugged in the USB cable, rebooted the iPad Mini, etc. I tried to connect it to my iPhone also which I have used to fly the Anafi in the past and while the phone indicated it was connected to the Anafi's WiFi, it still showed nothing but static and had no control input whatsoever. I have had this happen once with our Anafi Thermal at work and when I unplugged and plugged the cable from the controller, it would reconnect. No luck on this one.
I was feverishly trying to reconnect while keeping an eye on it as I expected it to fly-away! Since I could not get anything to reconnect, my last hope was that it would RTH when the battery got low. Fortunately, it didn't fly-away but it did end up landing on the roof of a house that it was now hovering over the edge of as you can see by the short video attached here. The only other time I had any sort of an issue with this drone was in this very same neighborhood over a year ago. At that time, upon launching, it was acting weird and somewhat uncontrollable while hovering and as it started to pitch to the right I was able to make it land. Because of this earlier incident, I made sure to shift over to a completely clear 5GHz channel before this flight. I still think it might be something in that neighborhood but I can't see anything that sticks out like it would cause any interference other than the normal WiFi signals.
Prior to the disconnection I did not receive any warnings or errors. This is a refurbished unit that I got off of Amazon but have had no issues other than the two mentioned above. The controller, drone and all batteries are updated to the latest firmware.
I've attached the JSON file as well to see if any of the pros out there can tell me what might have happened.
Thank you.
I'm hoping someone might be able to explain why this happened as I have since lost all confidence in my Anafi due to it's unpredictable behavior. Yesterday while flying for a real estate photo shoot, I have the Anafi hovering at about 45-50 ft, AGL while I'm setting up for the next shot and when I look down, the screen is nothing but static and I have no control. I had only been in the air about 6-8 minutes or so so I knew I had some time to try and reconnect.
I tried everything I could think of to reconnect. Closed and opened the controller, unplugged and plugged in the USB cable, rebooted the iPad Mini, etc. I tried to connect it to my iPhone also which I have used to fly the Anafi in the past and while the phone indicated it was connected to the Anafi's WiFi, it still showed nothing but static and had no control input whatsoever. I have had this happen once with our Anafi Thermal at work and when I unplugged and plugged the cable from the controller, it would reconnect. No luck on this one.
I was feverishly trying to reconnect while keeping an eye on it as I expected it to fly-away! Since I could not get anything to reconnect, my last hope was that it would RTH when the battery got low. Fortunately, it didn't fly-away but it did end up landing on the roof of a house that it was now hovering over the edge of as you can see by the short video attached here. The only other time I had any sort of an issue with this drone was in this very same neighborhood over a year ago. At that time, upon launching, it was acting weird and somewhat uncontrollable while hovering and as it started to pitch to the right I was able to make it land. Because of this earlier incident, I made sure to shift over to a completely clear 5GHz channel before this flight. I still think it might be something in that neighborhood but I can't see anything that sticks out like it would cause any interference other than the normal WiFi signals.
Prior to the disconnection I did not receive any warnings or errors. This is a refurbished unit that I got off of Amazon but have had no issues other than the two mentioned above. The controller, drone and all batteries are updated to the latest firmware.
I've attached the JSON file as well to see if any of the pros out there can tell me what might have happened.
Thank you.
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