I was out testing my hexacopter this morning. I flew a simple mission perfectly and everything was going well. However once I switched into loiter the aircraft flew off in a random direction very quickly I switched into stabilise just before it hit the ground and prevented major damage to the aircraft.

Does anyone have any idea what may have caused this? I have my GPS device on a 10 cm stalk above the body of the hex. The logs show a HDOP spike and NSata drop just before the crash at around 3:45.

The red path in the Google Earth screenshot below shows the path in loiter just before I switched to stablise to try and save the hex.

I've attached the kmz and log file here incase anyone can take a look and help me out. I'm a bit lost.

Screen%20Shot%202014-10-23%20at%2013.46.12.jpg

Screen%20Shot%202014-10-23%20at%2013.49.44.jpg

2014-10-23 08-51-52.log

2014-10-23 08-51-52.kmz

You need to be a member of diydrones to add comments!

Join diydrones

Email me when people reply –

Replies

  • Consider checking Solar K Index before relying on GPS.  Of course it could be a failure of some sort, but just keep that in mind. I don't know the magic number, but someone mentioned 5 is high.

This reply was deleted.

Activity