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The compass will turn off automatically when abnormal compass readings are detected. The aircraft will enter A mode when the compass is off.
Sounds like it could be the cause of that crash..gee thanks dji for letting us down yet again.
Glad they made a change though.
I'm leary of any auto changes to flight mode. I'd rather get a warning message and change it manually than have a change up thrown at me in flight.
Interesting and well spotted! Be interesting to know how often "abnormal compass readings" can be expected and what might cause them. For DJI to engineer this into the firmware suggests an issue exists with the compass. It would also be interesting to know if this issue also effects other DJI aircraft.
I'm new here but thought I'd add to the discussion and also seek out ideas from anyone who reads this.
I own two phantoms and have been flying quads for a couple years now. My inspire arrived yesterday and I have since flown it twice.
All I can say is that it's dancing in the sky. It doesn't fix position when releasing the sticks (in "P" mode). The sticks don't respond proportionately to the direction and intensity that I depress. The inspire frame and the gimble head (both) tend to pan left or right (x axis) spontaneously when in a hover. I'm more than comfortable and patient when I fly and have in both cases flown in open areas away from hazards, which has helped particularly when performing manual landings. You literally have to walk it in circles until it steadies enough close to ground to touch down. Call me a skeptic but I'm not comfortable with testing auto park nor return to home when you get the feel something is off.
For additional information on settings: I'm running with an iPhone six, which is up to date. I calibrated the compass before each flight. Firmware was installed before first flight (engines locked / required update for flight). Perfect / near perfect GPS signal and no errors with the optical sensor. This should have been a walk in the park.
Additionally, the pilot app is sweet compared to the last couple releases I've used. It has crashed on me three times when transferring photos to the phone and I have found the datalink gets dropped or "hangs up" (twice for me) when transferring photos. Transferring 4k video clips through the datalink to your mobile device takes an ungodly amount of time in case you were wondering.
My only other concern is the clip that mounts your mobile device into the holder has already failed on me which means my device doesn't stay in and falls out at an angle. Surprising actually because the quality of everything else feels like sitting in a German auto for the first time.
Hoping someone might have some ideas. May have to try that fancy new tech support of theirs.
I'm new here but thought I'd add to the discussion and also seek out ideas from anyone who reads this.
I own two phantoms and have been flying quads for a couple years now. My inspire arrived yesterday and I have since flown it twice.
All I can say is that it's dancing in the sky. It doesn't fix position when releasing the sticks (in "P" mode). The sticks don't respond proportionately to the direction and intensity that I depress. The inspire frame and the gimble head (both) tend to pan left or right (x axis) spontaneously when in a hover. I'm more than comfortable and patient when I fly and have in both cases flown in open areas away from hazards, which has helped particularly when performing manual landings. You literally have to walk it in circles until it steadies enough close to ground to touch down. Call me a skeptic but I'm not comfortable with testing auto park nor return to home when you get the feel something is off.
For additional information on settings: I'm running with an iPhone six, which is up to date. I calibrated the compass before each flight. Firmware was installed before first flight (engines locked / required update for flight). Perfect / near perfect GPS signal and no errors with the optical sensor. This should have been a walk in the park.
Additionally, the pilot app is sweet compared to the last couple releases I've used. It has crashed on me three times when transferring photos to the phone and I have found the datalink gets dropped or "hangs up" (twice for me) when transferring photos. Transferring 4k video clips through the datalink to your mobile device takes an ungodly amount of time in case you were wondering.
My only other concern is the clip that mounts your mobile device into the holder has already failed on me which means my device doesn't stay in and falls out at an angle. Surprising actually because the quality of everything else feels like sitting in a German auto for the first time.
Hoping someone might have some ideas. May have to try that fancy new tech support of theirs.
My first thought when you mentioned using an iPhone 6 to run the app is: are you in airplane mode on the phone? Cellular uses 2.4 same as the RC. Could be a source of interference with the flight controller.
My first thought when you mentioned using an iPhone 6 to run the app is: are you in airplane mode on the phone? Cellular uses 2.4 same as the RC. Could be a source of interference with the flight controller.
Forget about pictures and failing mounts. The instability of the Inspire you're experiencing is not good - a real concern and not how everyone else is characterizing its stability at all. Concerning. Please post updates about that.
Forget about pictures and failing mounts. The instability of the Inspire you're experiencing is not good - a real concern and not how everyone else is characterizing its stability at all. Concerning. Please post updates about that.
If the compass disables itself and enter the ATT mode, and when i1 was far away that u cannot see its orientation, u need to be a very experienced pilot to slowly fly it back home, as there will be no switch back to the GPS mode once the compass is disabled during the same flight, and hopefully it is not too windy, otherwise it will add more than trouble to the going back. Oh gee....RTH should also be disabled in ATT mode.
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