Waypoint reached outside of acceptance sphere resulting in crash

In a recent flight, we experienced that the drone flew past a waypoint, braked, reversed, and accepted the waypoint when it was outside the acceptance sphere. What could have happened that caused this behaviour?

It is also worth noting that the drone flew in a strong gust wind causing heavy vibrations. The additional strong acceleration during the braking then resulted in a global position loss due to the horizontal innovation test ratio failing. This again lead to a failsafe landing that caused a crash. Due to a battery fire, the only data we have is what we gathered from the telemetry log.

  • In this plot the drone has flown past WP 82, which was accepted as expected when it reached the acceptance radius. The next WP 83 is on a continuous straight line, which is not considered reached until it has flown past the acceptance radius.
  • Same info as a timeline

hi, I’m wondering how you found out that the radius of acceptance is a toroid and not a round sphere? or is this just for illustration?
best regards George

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