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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 not just drifting with the wind. It clearly is clearly under power, pitched for maximum speed, probably 22mph. Unless the operator is lying and he intentionally kamikazed it in, this is definitely a fly away of the worst kind. Thankfully nobody was standing there.
It appears to be what several others have experienced after upgrading to 2.4. A Compass/GPS/IMU disagreement that results in it taking off and unable to respond to control input. From what others experienced, it will continue in whatever direction, sometimes climbing, sometimes descending, sometimes level, until the batteries failsafe kicks in. That seems to make it snap out of it, if you're lucky enough to not crash first.
I can count the number of people this has happened to on here and facebook one hand, so it's not a massive widespread issue. But that count is way more than it ever was before with any arducopter based aircraft. Others have suggested doing a compass and level calibration immediately after upgrading to avoid this. Since there are no release notes or instructions for 2.4, nobody would know to do this.
Skip to 1:00 to start just before it loses its mind. This is significant because I don't believe anyone has ever recovered the solo and had usable video. I believe it's also a first for Solo going through a window on video.
It appears to be what several others have experienced after upgrading to 2.4. A Compass/GPS/IMU disagreement that results in it taking off and unable to respond to control input. From what others experienced, it will continue in whatever direction, sometimes climbing, sometimes descending, sometimes level, until the batteries failsafe kicks in. That seems to make it snap out of it, if you're lucky enough to not crash first.
I can count the number of people this has happened to on here and facebook one hand, so it's not a massive widespread issue. But that count is way more than it ever was before with any arducopter based aircraft. Others have suggested doing a compass and level calibration immediately after upgrading to avoid this. Since there are no release notes or instructions for 2.4, nobody would know to do this.
Skip to 1:00 to start just before it loses its mind. This is significant because I don't believe anyone has ever recovered the solo and had usable video. I believe it's also a first for Solo going through a window on video.
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