This morning, I went to the Big Biddha to test some automatic flight plans.
I flew one "points" setup twice, which went well, I think!
Report about that later
After, I decided with 50ish% battery, to do one Sphere. Went nice, too.
Still 30+% battery left, did another sphere, just 20m over ground
At around 22% battery, "critical battery" landing kicked in, so I just moved it a bit closer to me.
And in about 5m height, 5m distance: motors stalling, bird turning like a beetle on the back and crashed to the ground.
Nothing broke, just the bird is only starting the fan right now.
Hopefully there is just some loose connection somewhere in it.
But:
It seems not to be the firmware of the bird.
I am still on the last good one from 2019, 1.6.3
It seems to be "just" the battery firmware.
Perhaps the age, condition of them?
That said, in case my bird is easy to fix, I would go for the latest fw for Anafi and battery
In case it is not an easy fix, my anafi times are presumably over!
Since my batteries are kind of malfunctioning, I would need a new extended version.
Better focus on the Mavics, then!
But in case ther is a Anafi 2 coming out, I kind of like the zoom!
The first Sphere:
I flew one "points" setup twice, which went well, I think!
Report about that later
After, I decided with 50ish% battery, to do one Sphere. Went nice, too.
Still 30+% battery left, did another sphere, just 20m over ground
At around 22% battery, "critical battery" landing kicked in, so I just moved it a bit closer to me.
And in about 5m height, 5m distance: motors stalling, bird turning like a beetle on the back and crashed to the ground.
Nothing broke, just the bird is only starting the fan right now.
Hopefully there is just some loose connection somewhere in it.
But:
It seems not to be the firmware of the bird.
I am still on the last good one from 2019, 1.6.3
It seems to be "just" the battery firmware.
Perhaps the age, condition of them?
That said, in case my bird is easy to fix, I would go for the latest fw for Anafi and battery
In case it is not an easy fix, my anafi times are presumably over!
Since my batteries are kind of malfunctioning, I would need a new extended version.
Better focus on the Mavics, then!
But in case ther is a Anafi 2 coming out, I kind of like the zoom!
The first Sphere:
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