After several practices with my Mavic pro I decided to experiment with the litchi waypoints– I carefully plotted my route paying special attention to the heights of the various waypoints. I then experimented with a short mission – successfully.
With a great deal of trepidation I set my MP to carry out a longer mission. I made sure to set the heights all above 40 m so that I would not crash into trees. Despite what I thought was a great deal of careful planning my MP crashed into a tree. Fortunately using Google maps and my mini iPad's GPS I was able to recover my MP. Whilst recovering it I realised my big mistake. I had set the waypoints altitude to 40 m (as I knew none of the trees were above 35 m in height). What I didn't take into account was that some of the 35 meter trees were on fields over 30 m above my home point and therefore I crashed into the trees at a height of about 5/10 m. Whilst flying I noticed the ground seemed remarkably close and I should have simply taken control of my MP and ascended to 80/90 m and I should've sent my RTH altitude to 90 m NOT 40m. Silly me. Fortunately the damage was minimal (I don't know if the propeller guards helped reduce the damage) - two broken props.
The only sensible thing I did was to keep the gimbal guard on.
I thought I would share this with you all so that you can avoid making the same mistake.
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With a great deal of trepidation I set my MP to carry out a longer mission. I made sure to set the heights all above 40 m so that I would not crash into trees. Despite what I thought was a great deal of careful planning my MP crashed into a tree. Fortunately using Google maps and my mini iPad's GPS I was able to recover my MP. Whilst recovering it I realised my big mistake. I had set the waypoints altitude to 40 m (as I knew none of the trees were above 35 m in height). What I didn't take into account was that some of the 35 meter trees were on fields over 30 m above my home point and therefore I crashed into the trees at a height of about 5/10 m. Whilst flying I noticed the ground seemed remarkably close and I should have simply taken control of my MP and ascended to 80/90 m and I should've sent my RTH altitude to 90 m NOT 40m. Silly me. Fortunately the damage was minimal (I don't know if the propeller guards helped reduce the damage) - two broken props.
The only sensible thing I did was to keep the gimbal guard on.
I thought I would share this with you all so that you can avoid making the same mistake.
Sent from my iPad using MavicPilots