Yes, thank you! I would prefer to send the logs via PM though and I hope people can understand that. If the problem has some value for the community I want to share it of course, but I don’t want to share the logs of this flight with the whole web yet (if it is not totally embarrassing I’m happy to share it later, its very impressive).
you could try https://plot.dron.ee
if you dont’ want to show real coordinates. This pages gives you the possibility to randomize them before sharing 
Thank you, I tried but I’m to stupid to download it again.
I think the crash was caused by a compass error (got a EKF ground mag anomaly message some seconds before the crash) combined with some unfortunate gimbal and dampening problems.
to me it looks like the problem startet there
then you tried RTL which doesn’t work without valid GPS data
this message I get sporadic but without any negative effect
next time you could try “alt hold” if GPS is not working. It should prevent the copter from gaining speed
Thank you! Unfortunately the copter gained speed very fast. I have a Herelink and its missing tactile feedback for mode change. I tried RTL, then Loiter and after that Alt Hold. The copter was so fast and changed the heading that I hoped to stop with GPS first. But you are right, thereby I was loosing valuable seconds where the copter went even more crazy.
I did not have Stabilize on a button. I think with Stabilize (with my Taranis I use Stabilize as standard) I would have rescued it, at least crashed it in a way which where it hadn’t end up fubar.
It was an expensive lesson to bring back Stabilize on the buttons. Its simply not possible (for me) to use a touchscreen under such circumstances. Also to use Stabilize as first mode when something goes wrong and only go back to other modes after stabilizing the copter.
What board you had in the copter?I had similar crash on my helicopter using latest arducopter on OmnibusF4V3.I also had similar GPS glitches even thou gps itself was working okay i think.
But tridge said that i had a IMU failure.
Interesting, I think it was a barometer failure (I also went for GPS and vibrations before). I have a Pixhawk.
It suddenly jumps from 80 to 3,000m. Since them everything was a desaster.
I think I found the post.
looking into the logs is always the best idea (if possible )
there you have all the sensor data to check if it’s valid
I think there are several strange things.
The gyro has a step in its data, probably due to temperature differences?
The baro shows a huge spike
I found another post which might be correlated (I have had anti spark plugs too, I did remove them now). Maybe that is an important finding that anti spark plugs are dangerous.
Another question would be if a temperature change inside the case with the flight controller could cause such behavior. I have a Herelink Airunit which heats up the copter quite significantly. Maybe a fast start could mean that there is a huge temperature difference between initializing and flight.
this is what my gyros look like in 2 different flight situations:
- first hoovering
- cruising around
so I would say your gyros look ok
this looks strange for sure!
but I would have hoped that just a spike doesn’t confuse the EKF completely, but I’m not into that so far.
hmm, as long as your main contact in the plug is good it’s fine
you could check the IMU temperature in the log within the IMU section: “T” 
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I’m thinking to put a 470 µf capacitor into the SPI-connector next to the power-connector of the Pixhawk to stabilize the 5v supply. Is that a bad idea?
I had a quick look, and there are some key things that happened:
- IMU.AH and IMU.GH went to zero, which means the first IMU was not healthy. That meant that the first EKF lane failed over to the 2nd IMU
- when the innovations rose on the first lane, it switched to lane2
- there was a nasty step in the 2nd IMU gyro, and some nasty glitches in the 2nd IMU accel readings
What this all adds up to is your main sensor SPI bus started misbehaving. That bus has both of your IMUs on it, so suddenly you have two unreliable IMUs.
I’ll look a bit more closely soon, but pretty clearly you had a very unhappy SPI bus.
Cheers, Tridge
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I have noticed spikes during when the ESCs do there idle beeping. Could that be the source of the error or is this simply the motor movement?
Is it normal that the Accel Z has such a large value (965) compared to the others?
The Accel Z value comes from gravity 
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Ah, that is kind of obvious. Thx for the hint!
I replaced all Pixhawks with “mRo x2.1 777” flight controllers and I hope these issues are gone. We have already rescued 4 fawns on 40 ha and I hope we are now ready for a successful season with thousands of hectares and hundreds of fawns.
Thank you all for you’re help!
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really nice hearing about nice use cases of ArduPilot!
Maybe you’d like to do a blog post sometime?
I will do after the season. I now a lot of people using Arducopter for rescuing fawns. We have more ~20 copters flying in Germany and three of them which I monitor closely have already resucued more than 100 fawns in the last days.