Good afternoon, everybody. I work for a fire department, and we recently took delivery of the EVO II Enterprise. I've taken it out for a couple test flights (I am a Part 107 pilot and fly my own Parrot Anafi regularly.) Did some flight tests today, up to 400', photos, video, then a "Smart Orbit" over our building. After the orbit, I hit "stop" and returned to manual flight. I then got a "RTH initiated" with 8 minutes of flight time left. I canceled the RTH and manually brought it to the asphalt apron of the FD station lot (light poles in the grassy area) and was bringing it down to land when it stopped about 50 feet off the ground, about 24 feet away from the set "home" location. The "radar" sensor picked up the light pole 10 or 15 feet away from one side, but it completely stopped responding to the stick controls. Just hovering at that height. Showed 5 minutes of flight time left. Camera still connected, able to broadcast through attached speaker, just wouldn't respond to any joystick down, up, left or right. I even tried the RTH button to see if that would "wake it up" but nothing.
Then it just landed, didn't really lower itself....it just flew straight down onto the asphalt. Flight log on the smart controller shows it had 7 minutes and 23% power left after hovering in place for over 5 minutes (with no controller movement) then descended from 50 to zero in 5 seconds.
I feel lucky because despite a scratch at the bottom of the gimbal and some scuffed props, it seems OK. Was able to change battery and powered up properly, good camera and thermal imagery. I'll change the props out, but I need to know what happened. Why would it literally just stop responding?
Then it just landed, didn't really lower itself....it just flew straight down onto the asphalt. Flight log on the smart controller shows it had 7 minutes and 23% power left after hovering in place for over 5 minutes (with no controller movement) then descended from 50 to zero in 5 seconds.
I feel lucky because despite a scratch at the bottom of the gimbal and some scuffed props, it seems OK. Was able to change battery and powered up properly, good camera and thermal imagery. I'll change the props out, but I need to know what happened. Why would it literally just stop responding?
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