flyaway

  1. C

    Tower and Solo apps

    Does anyone have extensive experience with Tower that can maybe explain what happened? Here goes: I was testing out the Tower app and had loaded a survey grid, launched and solo went up to about 30 feet and hovered but did not continue on its mission. I couln't figure out if there was another...
  2. jimloss

    Flyaway and Crash

    Yesterday I had a flyaway and crash with my Solo1(Green Cube and OpenSolo). I was coming in for a landing in my backyard while in Fly:Manual. When Solo1 was about a foot from touching down it suddenly took off quickly and I had no control. It ripped into a movie screen that I have against the...
  3. S

    “Flyaway” prevention.

    Can someone please give me some clarification on this flyaway issue. From what I’ve read on the forum this is a reality and folks have them. So the solution is to select A on the controller which is pre-programmed into the controller = my controller is already setup this way. Therefor when if...
  4. sparkplug23

    EKF Flyaway!

    Hey guys, So two days ago I got to experience the joys of a fly away. At the time, I spent a day looking in the fields I thought it went, but after learning how to pull the tlogs from the controller I discovered I was way off. I have lodged a ticket with 3DR and am anxiously waiting to hear...
  5. Pedals2Paddles

    Video of possible EKF fly away

    This video is from a user on the Facebook group. He was cruising around the neighborhood when it went bananas. It took off at high speed in descent. Narrowly missed one house, and crashed through the window of another house. I don't see any way this was pilot error. it is quite obviously...
  6. KyleSinner

    Last known GPS coordinates...

    My little gal ran away a couple weeks ago. I pushed her too far on the battery, brought her down manually because we were in Follow mode. passing through 15% battery, I brought her down into my hand and throttled down, she didn't recognize this "Landing" as I continued to throttle down and panic...
  7. AKPilot

    Curious Behavior 3DR Considers Normal

    I had my first incident with Solo yesterday. It started with a casual flight. Preflight went well and had GPS lock in <1min like usual. As I ended my flight I decided to use the RTH function. Solo was about 8 ft AGL whe it started to rapidly fly towards a tree trunk. I quickly hit pause then...
  8. Chip Luck

    Low Level Solo Flyaway's/Crashes : now 7 times, anyone else?

    I have had 7 total low level flyaway's as of the last flight a few days ago. First, let me state I have had NO 'high' altitude flyaway's, ever. Seems to occur a a low altitude around 10 feet or so, and always around the home position. Flight mode is in default GPS mode, no smart shot modes...
  9. J

    Solo Flyaway

    Yesterday I was flying my solo near my house. I had taken it up about 150 feet where I continued to spin it a bit to get some nice views of the area. After about 2 minutes I proceeded to go up to about 240 feet where I again spun it to get some more views of the area and the sunset, It was at...