I fairly recently got a Parrot Anafi. Chose it over DJI Mavic Air because it's quieter, a bit simpler/faster setup (to me), and has some unique features (camera tilt up and zoom).
PROBLEM 1: However, after my first flight, ever since I've been experiencing heavy drifting LEFT. Today, when I did a re-test, I let the Anafi hover at eye level and it seemed to hold position for the 1-3 seconds I left it there.. then I moved it around and upwards and it started drifting heavily left ever since. If I let go of the controller, it keeps drifting left. I have to counter that by keeping the joystick hard right. When I got the drone, it did a FW update, and I had not crashed the drone prior to it exhibiting this "drifting left" problem. I also tried recalibrating the camera, controller and the drone to no avail. Someone suggested letting the drone sit for a while before launch and that didn't seem to help me. I waited a minute or so only. Would seem ridiculous to have to wait like 30 minutes each time and I probably wouldn't put up with that. If I bring the drone down, it comes straight down and doesn't really drift heavily left. I didn't pay attention to see what the GPS signal state was though...
PROBLEM 2: Ever since day 1, I've not been able to successfully capture clean video. I've noticed the video output on my cell phone showed some video artifacts/corruption.. in some areas it looks like multi-colored specs/spots on the lower left of video output.. and around the upper-middle of the video output it showed more of a radiant arc of multi-colored corruption.. it persists for the entire flight and appears in my clips upon playback on PC. Today, I did an extended flight and while looking at my phone screen, I noticed that when I pulled up to a higher elevation, I didn't seem to notice any of that corruption on the phone display.. and when I lowered the drone to around 100ft or so, I started to see the corruption return to display.
Could someone please help me with these problems? I really want to keep and like this drone because it's quieter, has camera tilt-up and zoom, and no forced geo-fencing.. but these are some serious issues.
At first I thought maybe PROBLEM 2 was due to poorly seated SD card due to the design of the slot being unconventional (seems the sd card can go loose/out of place). But that wouldn't explain why the corruption also appears on my phone display. I'm hoping it's not a camera defect.
Should one or both problems be unresolved for me, how is the warranty/tech support? The drone is only a couple months old or so but I purchased it off eBay (new).
Thanks in advance.
PROBLEM 1: However, after my first flight, ever since I've been experiencing heavy drifting LEFT. Today, when I did a re-test, I let the Anafi hover at eye level and it seemed to hold position for the 1-3 seconds I left it there.. then I moved it around and upwards and it started drifting heavily left ever since. If I let go of the controller, it keeps drifting left. I have to counter that by keeping the joystick hard right. When I got the drone, it did a FW update, and I had not crashed the drone prior to it exhibiting this "drifting left" problem. I also tried recalibrating the camera, controller and the drone to no avail. Someone suggested letting the drone sit for a while before launch and that didn't seem to help me. I waited a minute or so only. Would seem ridiculous to have to wait like 30 minutes each time and I probably wouldn't put up with that. If I bring the drone down, it comes straight down and doesn't really drift heavily left. I didn't pay attention to see what the GPS signal state was though...
PROBLEM 2: Ever since day 1, I've not been able to successfully capture clean video. I've noticed the video output on my cell phone showed some video artifacts/corruption.. in some areas it looks like multi-colored specs/spots on the lower left of video output.. and around the upper-middle of the video output it showed more of a radiant arc of multi-colored corruption.. it persists for the entire flight and appears in my clips upon playback on PC. Today, I did an extended flight and while looking at my phone screen, I noticed that when I pulled up to a higher elevation, I didn't seem to notice any of that corruption on the phone display.. and when I lowered the drone to around 100ft or so, I started to see the corruption return to display.
Could someone please help me with these problems? I really want to keep and like this drone because it's quieter, has camera tilt-up and zoom, and no forced geo-fencing.. but these are some serious issues.
At first I thought maybe PROBLEM 2 was due to poorly seated SD card due to the design of the slot being unconventional (seems the sd card can go loose/out of place). But that wouldn't explain why the corruption also appears on my phone display. I'm hoping it's not a camera defect.
Should one or both problems be unresolved for me, how is the warranty/tech support? The drone is only a couple months old or so but I purchased it off eBay (new).
Thanks in advance.