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Hey Ray, can you check to see if your Avata is missing insulation on the cable running from the drone body to the gimbal, like in the picture I enclosed?
Yup, exact same on mine. :-/
I’ve got one other Avata owner saying his is the same, and a Mini 2 user that says his gimbal wire is similarly unshielded. Weird. Though perhaps not as distressing as my Avata apparently flipping itself onto its back while flying:
link to youtube.com
Wasn’t able to replicate it, but was doing some banked dives and the drone went from 90 degrees vertical to what seemed like (in the goggles) completely inverted without any stick input. E-Brake put it to right again, but a little spooky.
Funny you mention that backflip. I’m literally copying footage right now from a flight yesterday (albeit, in 57KPH winds), where both myself and my wife watched what appeared to be a flip as well (S-mode). Totally smooth operator though when it did it.
Looking to see if it’s captured on the video or not.
Well it’s terrifying to know that it can do that in S mode. Did you e-brake to get it back to level, or did it level out on its own?
I kind of held the craft with my hands a few minutes ago and tried to simulate what happened (in terms of motions), and one thing I noticed is that, because of the cinewhoop design, the center of gravity is very much on the top of the aircraft. So I think if you get the little guy 90 degrees to the wind and it gets a little push it naturally just kind of flips over. If you hold it by the two little landing nubs on either side of the frame, at a 90 degree angle, it doesn’t take much effort to make it invert, since that’s where the center of mass is.
If you think about it it’s almost like an inverted Phantom and thus inherently unstable, since the pendulum is constantly on TOP of the thrust vector, and not underneath.
It just settled itself. Basically, like it was just doing it’s own airshow, no loss of altitude or anything like your video.
I had made a hard turn/stop and it did it. Have to dig through the footage now to try and find that moment.
Yeah, if you find the video I’d be super interested to see it and how it compares with what mine did.
Found it. Uploaded the snippet: link to youtube.com
Basically like it did a perfect flip, kept on chugging.
Oh wow, yeah, similar in what happened (quick inversion), but because you were in a flight assisted mode I figure the drone probably automatically looked at itself and said, “Hey, I’m not supposed to be upside down” and auto-corrected, where in my case I had to hit the e-stop to get it rigthwise again.