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    Nearly lost my Mavic Air this morning - Home Point changed randomly

    Fair point Gizmo - lesson learned and I have done as you suggest
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    Nearly lost my Mavic Air this morning - Home Point changed randomly

    Sorry, I have tried to locate the DAT file on my mobile phone to no avail. The flight took place two days ago on 26 March but for some inexplicable reason - and assuming that I am interpreting the file naming convention correctly -there appear to be no DAT records for that date (see screenshot...
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    Nearly lost my Mavic Air this morning - Home Point changed randomly

    Thanks, I will look at your link. The key thing is that I didn't move from the launch point and, other than passing it without knowing the drone was hovering over it when I was chasing after it in my car, I was nowhere near the 2nd home point which was several hundred yards out of the park and...
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    Nearly lost my Mavic Air this morning - Home Point changed randomly

    Sorry not to have responded sooner. In answer to the question "Do you recall exactly what you did to initiate RTH?" - Yes, I tapped the RTH icon on the screen - nothing more. I absolutely did not see the "Select Return Position" message shown in the screenshot above.
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    Nearly lost my Mavic Air this morning - Home Point changed randomly

    Thanks Mossiback - I will. Just a thought, my mobile phone's Location services menu offers a choice of selecting "Use GPS only" as opposed to the default and in use during all my flights thus far "Use GPS, Wi-Fi and mobile networks". I wonder whether I could ensure greater GPS accuracy of the...
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    Nearly lost my Mavic Air this morning - Home Point changed randomly

    It all happened so quickly!
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    Nearly lost my Mavic Air this morning - Home Point changed randomly

    There isn't a cancel button as far as I am aware but I suppose with hindsight I should have pressed the pause button and then ran towards its last known location to see if I could spot it hovering.
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    Nearly lost my Mavic Air this morning - Home Point changed randomly

    Thank you so much for your analysis - does this mean that the gps in my (new and expensive) mobile phone may be too unreliable to ever use with the controller or could this be a one-off event?
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    Nearly lost my Mavic Air this morning - Home Point changed randomly

    My mobile device did not crash at any time but thanks for your thoughts/interest - much appreciated from you all.
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    Nearly lost my Mavic Air this morning - Home Point changed randomly

    Thank you - so my understanding of this is that my mobile device generated a wildly inaccurate home location sometime after take-off and for whatever reason the RTH point was updated accordingly. Presumably - and I appreciate you can only hazard a guess - if I had ended up losing the drone DJI...
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    Nearly lost my Mavic Air this morning - Home Point changed randomly

    It did not give me an option and in any event I had not moved an inch from the launch point - so home point and current location would presumably have been the same.. I had certainly been nowhere near the randomly generated home point which was out of the park and 500 yards up the road in...
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    Nearly lost my Mavic Air this morning - Home Point changed randomly

    I assume you are talking about the event at 1m 54.8s? I had brought the drone into a hover and was scanning the horizon. I did nothing other than slew the drone to an approximately NE direction when I initiated the RTH. I did not enter any of the settings or map view. I still do not understand...
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    Nearly lost my Mavic Air this morning - Home Point changed randomly

    Sorry - same link sent twice
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    Nearly lost my Mavic Air this morning - Home Point changed randomly

    DJI Flight Log Viewer - PhantomHelp.com
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    Nearly lost my Mavic Air this morning - Home Point changed randomly

    Flight Record uploaded here: DJI Flight Log Viewer - PhantomHelp.com Thanks again.