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Good morning! Last week I was using my neo on my electric bike on follow going around 10-15 mph and it was working fine following me for some time. But in the middle it suddenly stopped recording flipped over and shut off. The neo was at about 40% there was no wind and it was flying too low for any birds to hit it. Any idea why this happened?
 
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I crashed my Neo today for the 1st time. The left joystick stopped working. The drone was in manual mode and descending. When I realized, that something went wrong, it was too late, I couldn´t lift up the drone and it crashed into the ground. Nothing happened really, it got a bit dusty. Turned it off and on again. When I got back to my car I made another try, hovered the drone and let´s see... It didn´t work the 2nd time. Went home did a FW refresh on the FPV3 RC, updated the goggles, performed a compass + IMU + gimbal calibration and refreshed the FW on the drone too. Now, it seems to be O.K. IMO the FPV controller is a junk as it is. Very bad, that no Radiomaster or Jumper RCs can be used to DJI drones...
 
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Video/logs would be interesting, would expect that most likely it did work fine, just you put yourself in a situation e.g. VRS where you didn't have enough power/didn't react appropriately to escape. Pretty common mistake.
 
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I crashed my Neo today for the 1st time. The left joystick stopped working. The drone was in manual mode and descending. When I realized, that something went wrong, it was too late, I couldn´t lift up the drone and it crashed into the ground. Nothing happened really, it got a bit dusty. Turned it off and on again. When I got back to my car I made another try, hovered the drone and let´s see... It didn´t work the 2nd time. Went home did a FW refresh on the FPV3 RC, updated the goggles, performed a compass + IMU + gimbal calibration and refreshed the FW on the drone too. Now, it seems to be O.K. IMO the FPV controller is a junk as it is. Very bad, that no Radiomaster or Jumper RCs can be used to DJI drones...

Don't forget the STOP/BRAKE button in manual... has saved my bacon a few times with the Avata 2.
 
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Don't forget the STOP/BRAKE button in manual... has saved my bacon a few times with the Avata 2.
Let´s strart all over again, I wasn´t probably clear. I fly mostly beside our houses, there´s a small field. i know it very well. I fly always very low, because there´s an intl airport nearby. The Avata batteries were emplty already, it was the 1st battery with the Neo. I was just flying strait and descended. And suddenly the left joystick stopped working at all. The right was working fine. So i was able to slow down the drone, but there was no time to do anything else. I´d say it landed like a fixed wing. Recovered quickly, within a few minutws. I turned normal mode back and flew the drone in front of me back to my car. I let the drone hover and tested the sticks one more time hovering in normal mode, just a few steps from me. Checking the right stick: ok, fine. checking the left stick: not working. 😒 It came back to life after a few seconds. I turned off everything, went home did all these calibrations, cleaned the drone and went back to fly. This time all went fine... It´s not the crash, what´s interesting, no damage whatsoever, just had to clean the drone and the props. Why the left joystick failed. Two times.
 
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