Thanks, was no fun but luckily Monday a week later the new one is coming. Thank God for insurance. Although definitely would have preferred not to use it lol
I had a similar crash with my Avata. I was coming off a water fall when the drone took off on its own. I could not control it with the controller 2 and crashed into the bottom of the falls. The remote showed good good signal to the drone and still had good GPS. I was about 2 meters above the rushing water when I lost control. I believe DJI has an issue with the Avata has a issue on how it responds when the lower sensor sees running water under the drone.
Hmm, Heard about the issue. That's the first time I heard about it in regards to water. Thanks I still mostly blame me but either way. Sorry for your loss too, man Hope you had insurance.
Aw man.. Even though I read the title.. I kept rooting for ya to get out of that tunnel! Respect..for still posting the footage. Best of Luck on ya next one! Subscribed!
That was due to the GPS, in many cases I have seen that when the satellite signal is lost, the avata does not have the ability to locate itself. The Gps helps to remain stable, but in that signal loss or recovery satellites the avata drifts or in the worst case it collapses. The best yo can do is not to risk as you have done, due to this factory problem.
Thanks, good info I have heard that as well. If I did not panic I think I could have saved it. The biggest issue was I had it on return to home. If I collected myself quickly and thought to switch to hover. I could have grabbed it I think. The only thing I could do was turn. I think there was enough signal for it to switch had I tried. Thanks for watching and feedback.
What about the DJI warranty in this case? I live in Thailand and DJI care refresh is not available here. So I think someday my avata maybe go wrong like this and I think the warranty doesn't help that much. I decided to upgrade my avata into 3.5 from axis. This broke my 6 months left warranty for real. But in your case I think something just got wrong with GPS and some sensors just got an error. Because technically GPS can't penetrate the stone but without M mode I think the real problem is coming from sensors for sure because In N and S mode the drone should not be out of control by itself. Sorry for your loss.
Yea it worked out fine. Got the refresh pack and replaced it within 6 days. Had to walk in some really cold water to retrieve but lesson learned Thanks
I'm gonna put this one on me. When I went through the first time I saw it lose GPS at the end of the stone arch. The second time I just wanted to see the inside . I also had it set to return to home. If I didn't panic I might have gone in to settings and hit hover whe GPS lost. Sorry about yours that socks. Got the replacement in a week pretty hsppy
@@markgentilcore5664 glad u got a replacement, I've made a claim now on the dji site, but they asking for flight logs and all, I never was hooked up to dji fly so I'm not sure I can get a replacement, did u have care refresh M8??
@@markgentilcore5664 well I have to upload flight logs it seems, but I wasn't logged into dji fly, my drone worked without it. So I'm not sure what I must do next 😒
I had experienced the same loss of GPS signal with my Avata, fortunatelly it was while doing real-estate videos and not above water. Almost ruined my work day with this error - jumping in and out of Normal mode/making the drone weird to fly all the time. "Good" to see that it's not only with my Avata with this problem, but looks like they all are.. Because of this I'm thinking of selling the Avata and moving to a FPV cinebot drone with a proper antena signal. p.s. when you will lose the GPS signal the drone just has max 8-10 km/h speed and is really dull (like a limp mode), which means you can still controll it, but it will be reaaaaly slow. Be ready for the signal to appear while flying, because your input sensitivity will go back to normal - the drone will likely "jump" towards the way you were flying before you correct it.
That's why I'd rather rely on my skills as a pilot and not all the BS features. People get fantastic real estate videos all the time with an acro FPV cinewhoop.
Hi,that last bit in the tunnel must have been stressful! I felt for you I was hoping you would get it out unscaved,I supposed that the risk of getting cool footage
Lol very much so. All it would do was turn. Really thought I was gonna save it. I actually did something similar a few weeks back. Dried it and it was fine. Hopefully that will be the case. I did retrieve it that was even more scary then getting stuck! Thanks for the kind thoughts
@@markgentilcore5664 unplugging the battery while still underwater helps to prevent shortages if you are able to do it that safed my little tiny whoop that went diving but the camera broke a few weeks later not sure if related tho my guess is that it got stuck cause it lost gps it tried to fly up to safe it self but the ceiling prevented that afaik normal and sports mode rely on gps for for manuvering if the gps is lost it tries to fly with the sensors but the avata only got sensors downwards and they dont work well above water cause of the reflections
It was signal loss and no gps signal. The first time i went through a little quicker and juat as it was coming out just fo a second it lost gps. The second time I went slower to check it out and in ythe middle just lost all control except turning. To make it worse had it set to return to home if loss occured and why it kept bouncing off the top of it. New comes on Monday Thank god for teh insurance.
I crashed into water yesterday on my avata. I'm about to send mine in for refresh. Did you end up keeping your battery? I don't know if it's good or not anymore after submerged in water for a few hours
Hi sorry for the delay. I actually sent the battery and motion controller which is what they asked me to do. They tested that sent it back. It took about 10 days. Pretty scary when it happened
Same issue with mine. Sometimes it gets unresponsive, starts drifting, and then goes balls to the wall full Throttle, and blast upwards or gets stuck to anything in the way, while sounding like an F1 car, just SCREAMING. Last time it happened luckily it was under a porch roof, so it just stuck to the ceiling and I was able to retrieve it
Sorry man, that was crucial, i admire the fact that you kept trying, but it seems that there is an issue with Avata lower sensor, good you had insurance I didn't 🤣, Good luck on your journey! Subscribed!
Thanks Appreciate it, Still a lot of pilot error. If that happened again would handle a little different. I had it set to RTH at 90 feet. So it was trying to do what it was told. A quick switch to hover when no GPS and would have just got closer in time. It's all learning and would not do half if not for insurance, sure makes it more fun! Thanks for reaching out
a very beautiful and daring flight. There is a saying that we say in Mexico "Never fly the pylon" It's like when you have to finish the flight because everything went well and you want more. Well I don't have the Avata, I can't say what happened? If someone knows his comment it will be valuable to everyone. It looks like it entered RTH but I don't know the Avata. Greetings and it's great that you got your new drone back. tHXS
No, no I did not. I was pretty stressed,had I thought about it probably could have.if I switched you over to hover rather than return from home it probably would. Have been just fine. Either way thank God for insurance New one coming today.
That’s right get back out there…. and don’t get tempted because it seems like something in your head be saying go ahead you can do it next thing u no you be calling DJI
Sorry for your loss there bud losing gps will do that with the avata it gets a mind of its own glad to see you were sensible enough to have care refresh and got it replaced
One way you could have prevented this is by putting tape over the ultrasonic sensor. You can see that it auto gained altitude as soon as you got over the top part of the waterfall.
Sorta. What happened was it was set to RTH. When it lost signal it was trying to go up 100 feet and come home. Had I switched to hover while getting closer probably would have worked Just getting closer may have helped also
I did retrieve the drone from the water. Had a good video of small fish swimming all around the drone before the camera died. It was still powered up when I pulled it out of the water. I had the DJI care but chose to pay for the repair myself. With replacing the battery and getting a replacement it was about $250.00 to have it replaced. I have found when I fly over water I have to keep the Avata from nearing a hover with a poor GPS signal the drone will be hard to control and not respond to commands from the controller well even when I am less than 300 feet from it with not and obstacles between me and the Avata. My Mini 3 pro does not exabit this kind of behavior with flying at the same location.
Great feedback! I just ordered my mini pro. I love the avata but they really do have different applications and situations to fly. I had the Mavic two loved that also but really looking forward to the mini. Thanks for watching and well thought out comment.
I have both the Avata and the Mini 3 Pro. There are times I fly the mini-3 Pro with the googles and the motion controller. This past week I was flying from outside in the bright sunlight into a long carport with low light and my Avata almost came to a stop once the GPS signals dropped out even though my throttle position on the motion controller did not change at all during the event. I believe there are still some control issues with the Avata that happens when you have week GPS signal even when you command it to move forward. I have been flying over a water fall and have it suddenly fly back ward when stopping the forward motion of the drone to take some still video of the water going over the falls. I believe DJI still has a few bugs in the Avata but it is fun to fly.
The only way I think would help here is to put it in manual/acro mode and then carefully get out of the tunnel, in this case the avata lost connection with the gps and then she knows how to walk to the side on her own and doesn't listen to the controller at all
I was actually using the standard controller. I came up with: I had the loss signal set to RTH. Had I gone in switched to hover I think I could have avoided it. Of course, at the moment was In a bit of a panic. Any thanks for watching and the comment
Hi, when it went in the water the memory card did not work after. Inside the goggles there is another memory card slot. I pulled it off that and it basically shows what you see. Take it easy
@@markgentilcore5664 you have the new goggles 2? my gogglesv2 doesnt show that info . what editor you use?....did you get stuck on the ceiling in there ?
my avata did the same thing when i was in de forest filming i was trying to go under a rock and it did the same thing but i got out and it was stil gowing up 100% and i panicked and just disconnected my controller and it hovered. thank god it just didn't stil go up :)
You learned the hard way that flying out of acro mode in a dark tunnel with water underneath trips the sensors, you shouldve switched it to manual mode that wouldve been your only hope, seems like your a noob flying with the motion controller lol
Lol yea know it happened kinda quick. There are a few different ways I could have got out of that but hey panicked no excuse. Not exactly a nude but was using the the motion control. I have been flying manual with the controller but not confident enough in that situation. Probably would have been fine and just not crashed. Bottom line you were right learned a lesson
Besides not being a bright idea flying into this small gap in assisted flight mode, look at the height readings! The Avata has some major issues with its sensors. You are not alone with this!
Not being a bright idea may be true. Unfortunately those tend to be the ones I typically lean towards. In hindsight there are a few things I could have done to mitigate the risk. The new replacement will be here tomorrow and if it didn't only cost me $29 and be in hand a week later I likely would take less chances.
The height sensor was correct the entire time. The GPS height reading was incorrect bc he lost gps signal under the bridge. Which would happen with ANY GPS drone.
Never fly over water with DJI drones. Btw, Avata is the worst FPV drone I've ever used. Too many bugs. I experienced some fly aways after touching just a little bit the ground and it ignored my disarm command (every command by the way), and this was really dangerous. I sold it
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That was painful to watch! Sorry for your loss dude, I subbed to help ease your pain.
Thanks, was no fun but luckily Monday a week later the new one is coming. Thank God for insurance. Although definitely would have preferred not to use it lol
I had a similar crash with my Avata. I was coming off a water fall when the drone took off on its own. I could not control it with the controller 2 and crashed into the bottom of the falls. The remote showed good good signal to the drone and still had good GPS. I was about 2 meters above the rushing water when I lost control. I believe DJI has an issue with the Avata has a issue on how it responds when the lower sensor sees running water under the drone.
Hmm, Heard about the issue. That's the first time I heard about it in regards to water. Thanks I still mostly blame me but either way. Sorry for your loss too, man Hope you had insurance.
This is what a fly feels like caught in a web.
Exactly
Aw man.. Even though I read the title.. I kept rooting for ya to get out of that tunnel! Respect..for still posting the footage. Best of Luck on ya next one! Subscribed!
Thanks brother. It's all good. Thanks to dji refresh had a replacement 4 days later. Staying away from water for while! Lol
@@markgentilcore5664 I can certainly understand that!
That was due to the GPS, in many cases I have seen that when the satellite signal is lost, the avata does not have the ability to locate itself. The Gps helps to remain stable, but in that signal loss or recovery satellites the avata drifts or in the worst case it collapses. The best yo can do is not to risk as you have done, due to this factory problem.
Thanks, good info
I have heard that as well. If I did not panic I think I could have saved it. The biggest issue was I had it on return to home. If I collected myself quickly and thought to switch to hover. I could have grabbed it I think. The only thing I could do was turn. I think there was enough signal for it to switch had I tried. Thanks for watching and feedback.
oh man im sorry for your loss i wish you will have another one
Lesson one: Don't go so slow through tunnels LOL
For sure
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What about the DJI warranty in this case? I live in Thailand and DJI care refresh is not available here. So I think someday my avata maybe go wrong like this and I think the warranty doesn't help that much.
I decided to upgrade my avata into 3.5 from axis. This broke my 6 months left warranty for real. But in your case I think something just got wrong with GPS and some sensors just got an error. Because technically GPS can't penetrate the stone but without M mode I think the real problem is coming from sensors for sure because In N and S mode the drone should not be out of control by itself.
Sorry for your loss.
Yea it worked out fine. Got the refresh pack and replaced it within 6 days. Had to walk in some really cold water to retrieve but lesson learned
Thanks
Ouch, that was intense, lost mine in a lake few days back also, seems like there is major issues with this Drone 😢
I'm gonna put this one on me. When I went through the first time I saw it lose GPS at the end of the stone arch. The second time I just wanted to see the inside . I also had it set to return to home. If I didn't panic I might have gone in to settings and hit hover whe GPS lost. Sorry about yours that socks. Got the replacement in a week pretty hsppy
@@markgentilcore5664 glad u got a replacement, I've made a claim now on the dji site, but they asking for flight logs and all, I never was hooked up to dji fly so I'm not sure I can get a replacement, did u have care refresh M8??
That sucks! It was really easy for me basically no questions asked.
@@markgentilcore5664 well I have to upload flight logs it seems, but I wasn't logged into dji fly, my drone worked without it. So I'm not sure what I must do next 😒
Sorry to hear. Did you have the DJI refresh? I was pleased, had a replacement in 6 days
Oh ! Till the end I was expecting you to sort it out.
Lol yes me too. If I remained calm thought a little more clear I think it would have been different. Pilot error lol thanks for watching
I had experienced the same loss of GPS signal with my Avata, fortunatelly it was while doing real-estate videos and not above water. Almost ruined my work day with this error - jumping in and out of Normal mode/making the drone weird to fly all the time. "Good" to see that it's not only with my Avata with this problem, but looks like they all are.. Because of this I'm thinking of selling the Avata and moving to a FPV cinebot drone with a proper antena signal.
p.s. when you will lose the GPS signal the drone just has max 8-10 km/h speed and is really dull (like a limp mode), which means you can still controll it, but it will be reaaaaly slow. Be ready for the signal to appear while flying, because your input sensitivity will go back to normal - the drone will likely "jump" towards the way you were flying before you correct it.
That's why I'd rather rely on my skills as a pilot and not all the BS features. People get fantastic real estate videos all the time with an acro FPV cinewhoop.
Hi,that last bit in the tunnel must have been stressful!
I felt for you I was hoping you would get it out unscaved,I supposed that the risk of getting cool footage
Lol very much so. All it would do was turn. Really thought I was gonna save it. I actually did something similar a few weeks back. Dried it and it was fine. Hopefully that will be the case. I did retrieve it that was even more scary then getting stuck! Thanks for the kind thoughts
@@markgentilcore5664 🤞 it's ok 👍
How did it get stuck there? Was it because of a signal loss or it got caught into something?
@@markgentilcore5664 unplugging the battery while still underwater helps to prevent shortages if you are able to do it
that safed my little tiny whoop that went diving but the camera broke a few weeks later not sure if related tho
my guess is that it got stuck cause it lost gps it tried to fly up to safe it self but the ceiling prevented that
afaik normal and sports mode rely on gps for for manuvering if the gps is lost it tries to fly with the sensors but the avata only got sensors downwards and they dont work well above water cause of the reflections
It was signal loss and no gps signal. The first time i went through a little quicker and juat as it was coming out just fo a second it lost gps. The second time I went slower to check it out and in ythe middle just lost all control except turning. To make it worse had it set to return to home if loss occured and why it kept bouncing off the top of it. New comes on Monday Thank god for teh insurance.
😢😢😢RIP
I was wandering how to fix the drone?
Hell yeah BO
DJI Avata and s Killa
Take deep breath in that situation
Did you use motion controller?
Hi, yeah was the motion controller.
I crashed into water yesterday on my avata. I'm about to send mine in for refresh. Did you end up keeping your battery? I don't know if it's good or not anymore after submerged in water for a few hours
Hi sorry for the delay. I actually sent the battery and motion controller which is what they asked me to do. They tested that sent it back. It took about 10 days. Pretty scary when it happened
It broke my heart :'(
Awe thx. It all worked out in the end
Same issue with mine. Sometimes it gets unresponsive, starts drifting, and then goes balls to the wall full Throttle, and blast upwards or gets stuck to anything in the way, while sounding like an F1 car, just SCREAMING. Last time it happened luckily it was under a porch roof, so it just stuck to the ceiling and I was able to retrieve it
Sorry man, that was crucial, i admire the fact that you kept trying, but it seems that there is an issue with Avata lower sensor, good you had insurance I didn't 🤣, Good luck on your journey! Subscribed!
Thanks Appreciate it,
Still a lot of pilot error. If that happened again would handle a little different. I had it set to RTH at 90 feet. So it was trying to do what it was told. A quick switch to hover when no GPS and would have just got closer in time. It's all learning and would not do half if not for insurance, sure makes it more fun!
Thanks for reaching out
Hello, this is an interesting video.
I will subscribe to your channel from Japan.
I look forward to seeing more great videos.
Thanks, will be alot more soon.
a very beautiful and daring flight. There is a saying that we say in Mexico "Never fly the pylon" It's like when you have to finish the flight because everything went well and you want more. Well I don't have the Avata, I can't say what happened? If someone knows his comment it will be valuable to everyone. It looks like it entered RTH but I don't know the Avata. Greetings and it's great that you got your new drone back. tHXS
That's awesome, I will remember that thank you!
I thought stuff like that only happens to me….It’s not funny but the situation is … Man u tried your best…. Did u rescue it ?
No, no I did not. I was pretty stressed,had I thought about it probably could have.if I switched you over to hover rather than return from home it probably would. Have been just fine. Either way thank God for insurance New one coming today.
That’s right get back out there…. and don’t get tempted because it seems like something in your head be saying go ahead you can do it next thing u no you be calling DJI
ouch, good to know, stucks on the roof of the bridge... and with the stick to go down wasn't possible ?
Figured out a bunch of ways I could have saved it after
I wish it was just a 50 dollars cheap drone
It all worked out DJI replaced it and learned something. Won't happen again
Sorry for your loss there bud losing gps will do that with the avata it gets a mind of its own glad to see you were sensible enough to have care refresh and got it replaced
Thanks and yes was lucky I had it. I panicked, I thought of several ways I could have saved it after but it was too late. Live and learn
Did you pull out the drone from the water?
Yes I did. DJI service replaced it for $24 not too bad
One way you could have prevented this is by putting tape over the ultrasonic sensor. You can see that it auto gained altitude as soon as you got over the top part of the waterfall.
which sensor is this ? where is it located on the avata?
Sorta. What happened was it was set to RTH. When it lost signal it was trying to go up 100 feet and come home. Had I switched to hover while getting closer probably would have worked
Just getting closer may have helped also
Man, I hate to see that. New subscriber.
Thank you
I did retrieve the drone from the water. Had a good video of small fish swimming all around the drone before the camera died. It was still powered up when I pulled it out of the water. I had the DJI care but chose to pay for the repair myself. With replacing the battery and getting a replacement it was about $250.00 to have it replaced.
I have found when I fly over water I have to keep the Avata from nearing a hover with a poor GPS signal the drone will be hard to control and not respond to commands from the controller well even when I am less than 300 feet from it with not and obstacles between me and the Avata. My Mini 3 pro does not exabit this kind of behavior with flying at the same location.
Great feedback! I just ordered my mini pro. I love the avata but they really do have different applications and situations to fly. I had the Mavic two loved that also but really looking forward to the mini. Thanks for watching and well thought out comment.
I have both the Avata and the Mini 3 Pro. There are times I fly the mini-3 Pro with the googles and the motion controller. This past week I was flying from outside in the bright sunlight into a long carport with low light and my Avata almost came to a stop once the GPS signals dropped out even though my throttle position on the motion controller did not change at all during the event. I believe there are still some control issues with the Avata that happens when you have week GPS signal even when you command it to move forward. I have been flying over a water fall and have it suddenly fly back ward when stopping the forward motion of the drone to take some still video of the water going over the falls. I believe DJI still has a few bugs in the Avata but it is fun to fly.
Your drone made suction with the upper wall. You should lower the drone when that happens.
It would only turn would not respond
I am sorry this happend to your drone after a pleasant flight. Glad you have insurance!
Yes i did, it all worked out in the end and learned a thing or two
The only way I think would help here is to put it in manual/acro mode and then carefully get out of the tunnel, in this case the avata lost connection with the gps and then she knows how to walk to the side on her own and doesn't listen to the controller at all
I was actually using the standard controller. I came up with: I had the loss signal set to RTH.
Had I gone in switched to hover I think I could have avoided it. Of course, at the moment was In a bit of a panic. Any thanks for watching and the comment
did you recover the drone? is it working now?
Yea I did. Saved the memory card. Dji replaced it with the care service pack I bought. Very easy and quick
@@markgentilcore5664 is it possible to perform flip with avata?
Did you recover it ?
Hi, sorry for the delay. I did recover it but it was all done. Thankfully took the DJI refresh was only a $29 learning experience
how you get your osd to display on your video?
Hi, when it went in the water the memory card did not work after. Inside the goggles there is another memory card slot. I pulled it off that and it basically shows what you see. Take it easy
@@markgentilcore5664 you have the new goggles 2? my gogglesv2 doesnt show that info . what editor you use?....did you get stuck on the ceiling in there ?
my avata did the same thing when i was in de forest filming i was trying to go under a rock and it did the same thing but i got out and it was stil gowing up 100% and i panicked and just disconnected my controller and it hovered. thank god it just didn't stil go up :)
I had it set to RTH if I didn't panic may have thought to switch it and maybe save it. Live and learn.thx
Did u loose control
I sure did! It's all good, DJI replaced it in about a week. Thx for watching
Yes I did. No GPS no signal. Could have saved it if I chilled and thought about it rather than panic like I did. Thx for watching
High risk low reward lol
Muito top e inscrito.
Thank you
You learned the hard way that flying out of acro mode in a dark tunnel with water underneath trips the sensors, you shouldve switched it to manual mode that wouldve been your only hope, seems like your a noob flying with the motion controller lol
Lol yea know it happened kinda quick. There are a few different ways I could have got out of that but hey panicked no excuse. Not exactly a nude but was using the the motion control. I have been flying manual with the controller but not confident enough in that situation. Probably would have been fine and just not crashed. Bottom line you were right learned a lesson
Besides not being a bright idea flying into this small gap in assisted flight mode, look at the height readings! The Avata has some major issues with its sensors. You are not alone with this!
Not being a bright idea may be true. Unfortunately those tend to be the ones I typically lean towards. In hindsight there are a few things I could have done to mitigate the risk. The new replacement will be here tomorrow and if it didn't only cost me $29 and be in hand a week later I likely would take less chances.
The height sensor was correct the entire time. The GPS height reading was incorrect bc he lost gps signal under the bridge. Which would happen with ANY GPS drone.
"small gap" lol
@@jakeh3144 for a DJI Avata even 2 meters are small.
@@SpeedsterIG Can you turn off all those junk sensors and "features" and just fly it raw acro?
Never fly over water with DJI drones. Btw, Avata is the worst FPV drone I've ever used. Too many bugs. I experienced some fly aways after touching just a little bit the ground and it ignored my disarm command (every command by the way), and this was really dangerous. I sold it
Thanks for the feedback.
You are brave, congrats
Thank you! Brave? I don't know, but always had more balls than brains. Lol thanks for watching and the comment.
Nossa que prejuízo 😳🇧🇷🙈
Lol yes
100% Pilot error....
Lol ya think?