[AMAZING] How accurate is Mavic's Smart RTH + Precision Landing?

[Qoncussion]

I often fly from an abandoned airport, atop a mountain in Nevada City, CA. On this particular mission, I had flown a total of 12,018 ft., and triggered RTH with the Mavic at a distance of 2,477 ft. from its home point. I rarely use RTH (ok, I never use RTH), but wanted to see how well the precision landing feature performed. About half way into the return flight, I figured I'd start recording video - just in case it got even close to its take-off point. Using an orange landing pad in the middle of a gravel runway gave the Mavic a perfect target. Well, it got close - like 4" close! Color me amazed! It landed with all of its feet inside of the inner white circle of the landing pad, just inches from its original take-off point. Who knew?

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(disregard the notifications about video cache being full. I had reloaded DJI Go 4, and hadn't reset my cache to a larger size before this flight)

 

[msinger]

By "Smart RTH", I'm assuming you really mean "Precision Landing".

 

[Qoncussion]

By "Smart RTH", I'm assuming you really mean "Precision Landing".

Yup... ...title updated accordingly...

 

[Cyberpower678]

Who knew? Most of use. It's documented.

 

[Qoncussion]

Who knew? Most of use. It's documented.

Man, oh man... Where is the love today?

 

[Bunny Too]

Man, oh man... Where is the love today?

I think it is impressive as heck, especially from that far away. Something that I find funny is a post I read where someone bought one of the circular landing pads and it will not land on the side with the printing, just descends and hovers then shows an error message, if he flips it to the blank side no problems, but the official tactical looking side, nope.
Regards,
-d

 

[armoredsaint]

it's about as accurate as ray charles flying your MP

 

[Robbyg]

The first time you see it in action it's absolutely stunning.
The hovering ability and RTH our the first thing I show to friends who want to see the Mavic in action. Overall this is one hell of a flying machine. It really is like owning a piece of technology that is 2-3 years ahead of it's time.

Rob

 

[JTS]

I personally think it is a couple of years ahead, and that we can thank the well-documented personal animosity between 3DR/GoPro and DJI for DJI throwing open the doors of their R&D toy cupboard. I still marvel at the level of integration. Sometimes I just stare at the gimbal!

 

[m0j0]

It is incredible... I have tested mine a number of times. It works constantly.

 

[Qoncussion]

Needless to say, I was quite impressed when the Mavic touched down just 4" from its takeoff spot. Very nice.

 

[mlaczek]

it's about as accurate as ray charles flying your MP

hehehe... or stevie wonder [emoji23]

 

[mlaczek]

I often fly from an abandoned airport, atop a mountain in Nevada City, CA. On this particular mission, I had flown a total of 12,018 ft., and triggered RTH with the Mavic at a distance of 2,477 ft. from its home point. I rarely use RTH (ok, I never use RTH), but wanted to see how well the precision landing feature performed. About half way into the return flight, I figured I'd start recording video - just in case it got even close to its take-off point. Using an orange landing pad in the middle of a gravel runway gave the Mavic a perfect target. Well, it got close - like 4" close! Color me amazed! It landed with all of its feet inside of the inner white circle of the landing pad, just inches from its original take-off point. Who knew?

View Flight Logs
(disregard the notifications about video cache being full. I had reloaded DJI Go 4, and hadn't reset my cache to a larger size before this flight)

before yesterday my mavic landed on totally same point wherefrom i was taking off. totally! yesterday i checked the coordinates and i can't belive it. it's a ******' nasa technology [emoji6]

 

[Hexagon]

Tried it myself for the first time. Enabled RTH while flying 2750 m away, it flew back flawlessly and landed exactly where it took off. Amazing precision, no input at all.

 

[Bunny Too]

I did the same on Sunday, enable precision landing only took it a couple hundred yards but it was in the air a good twenty minutes, landed within inches and even rotated to face the same way it took off; very impressive.
Regards,
-d.

 

[Spinylizard]

Tried it myself for the first time. Enabled RTH while flying 2750 m away, it flew back flawlessly and landed exactly where it took off. Amazing precision, no input at all.

Amazing area too, Greece I take it from your tag?

 

[Hexagon]

Amazing area too, Greece I take it from your tag?

exactly, about 30km away from Athens. My edited video is below, downgraded to 1080p but quite compromised regarding quality since I see a lot of glitches and weird artifacts (i.e. @ 1:55sec), maybe selected codec or file type (wmv) has some problems...

 

[mlaczek]

exactly, about 30km away from Athens. My edited video is below, downgraded to 1080p but quite compromised regarding quality since I see a lot of glitches and weird artifacts (i.e. @ 1:55sec), maybe selected codec or file type (wmv) has some problems...

nice video with nice music! congrats Hexagon!

in june i will go to cephalonia for holiday. this is my 5th trip to greece, but now i have a mavic...

 

[Hexagon]

nice video with nice music! congrats Hexagon!

in june i will go to cephalonia for holiday. this is my 5th trip to greece, but now i have a mavic...

thank you! hope you have a great time in cephalonia! I will keep you posted regarding legislation and drone registration... Italy and Greece drone regulation

 

[mlaczek]

thank you! hope you have a great time in cephalonia! I will keep you posted regarding legislation and drone registration... Italy and Greece drone regulation

my all trip to greece was amazing. the beaches, mountains, cities, villages and people of greece... i have no words! i loved every minutes of my trips

@Hexagon, i found now.