This may be ignorance on my part, but I thought it better to share my experience.
The Anafi flew backwards into a tree during manual flight mode. I was up in the hills in southern Spain, up high. I flew manually over the valley, then turned left going through the valley when I got the WiFi warning - bring Anafi closer.
At this point I had forgotten that I had it in sport mode ( I am a newby and panicked!), so rather than going right, I brought Anafi closer by pulling back at which point it apparently hit some bushes on the mountain side some 700 feet away.
Luckily I had a screen recording, plus I kept FP6 open so I could go look for it. I finally found it around two weeks later. It was fairly steep, so not easy, plus rain etc prevented me from looking.
During the search process, I noticed that the altitude on my recording remained at 18 feet -my starting point - throughout the flight. Even when initially flying over the valley it didn't change. It also didn't warn me as I got closer to the ground prior to crashing.
This despite Parrot claiming that the Anafi uses GPS, Glonass as well as Ultrasound (Apparently that is not like sonar).
The moral of the story is check your surroundings for changing altitude when flying. This also applies the the flightplan app!
Parrot, please look at this and fix.
Thank you
The Anafi flew backwards into a tree during manual flight mode. I was up in the hills in southern Spain, up high. I flew manually over the valley, then turned left going through the valley when I got the WiFi warning - bring Anafi closer.
At this point I had forgotten that I had it in sport mode ( I am a newby and panicked!), so rather than going right, I brought Anafi closer by pulling back at which point it apparently hit some bushes on the mountain side some 700 feet away.
Luckily I had a screen recording, plus I kept FP6 open so I could go look for it. I finally found it around two weeks later. It was fairly steep, so not easy, plus rain etc prevented me from looking.
During the search process, I noticed that the altitude on my recording remained at 18 feet -my starting point - throughout the flight. Even when initially flying over the valley it didn't change. It also didn't warn me as I got closer to the ground prior to crashing.
This despite Parrot claiming that the Anafi uses GPS, Glonass as well as Ultrasound (Apparently that is not like sonar).
The moral of the story is check your surroundings for changing altitude when flying. This also applies the the flightplan app!
Parrot, please look at this and fix.
Thank you