My spark flew out the air.

Criptix · Feb 22, 2019

Hi guys.

Last sunday I was flying for the sixt time that day. The KP index was fine and the sun was shining. 17 satellites are present.
The Drone was flying in line of sight like I always do.
Got 17 hours 54min of flight time, 322km of distance, 137 flights and exp of dji software lvl23.

Suddenly it just droped down. Instead of flying on it just droped.
The area has trees with max 24m high and my current hight on drop was 28m. I always fly there. 100+ flights there.

My guestion: can someone tell me what happend? I can't find any reason.

DJI Flight Log Viewer - PhantomHelp.com

Thx in advance, this scares me if it just droped...

Btw my spark has a broken leg.

MeadowSpark Lemon · Feb 22, 2019

I think you hit the top of those trees.
All the other passes over the trees was at over 100 feet.
At 8m11s you pass over the trees was at only 91.5 feet and the VPS sees something only 8.2 feet away,
At 8m12s the VPS is at 0 and the IMU still says 82 feet.

Criptix · Feb 23, 2019

I know that what u say could be true but I got even lower hights there, The trees are not that high.
And the Drone fell a little in angle because of the speed. It didn't drop verticly down.
The spark was in line of sight and I really didn't see anything happen exept for the fall.
It isn't the battery, that was still in place and I always check it before power on.

Strange all together.

lmel2005 · Feb 25, 2019

It seems like you hit some branches at about 82 ft high.
Don't you have a cached video?

Criptix · Feb 25, 2019

No no vid =(
I never record when I fly in sportmode.
If I get a replace I will always record now...

MeadowSpark Lemon · Feb 25, 2019

Or maybe a bird got you?????

Criptix · Mar 3, 2019

I didn't see. And I had a clear view.
Got the spark to dji support for repair and I hope they can find something we can't see.
If something found ill post it here.

Criptix · Mar 9, 2019

Got my spark back from repair.
Haven't got any respons on my guestion for DJI Support to look @ my logfile.

Criptix · Mar 9, 2019

When weather is fine I am gone look @ the exact hight of those threes.

MeadowSpark Lemon said:
I think you hit the top of those trees.
All the other passes over the trees was at over 100 feet.
At 8m11s you pass over the trees was at only 91.5 feet and the VPS sees something only 8.2 feet away,
At 8m12s the VPS is at 0 and the IMU still says 82 feet.