Recent content by clarkgodfrey

Yeah, I hadn't tried turning the drone over yet - guess I won't count on that after all. Thanks for the tip. And thanks to Ol' Sparky for passing some of his accumulated wisdom along as well. This forum IS a wonderful source of information.

I'd been flying for a month or so (M2P) when I decided to "go up" and take a look around at the sky before dinner - it was sunny, but the radar showed some rain squalls in the area and I thought there might be an interesting picture to be had. My house is surrounded by hills with lots of trees...

Yeah, you certainly got my attention in the first few seconds! Very effective. And I have to say that those blades looked pretty scary too. I guess it is appropriate for a Cyborg to have nerves of steel. I would vote for a return trip (with pen, if you must) to shoot a bunch more footage...

Yes, it was.

I just double-checked. It is set to RTH.

Thanks to both of you for your comments. I agree that is seems logical that the drone hadn't actually lost the signal and was waiting around for me to tell it to do something. On the other hand, the controller was definitely saying "No Signal" and I had the black & white picture on the...

I've had my Mavic 2 Pro / Smart Controller (my first real drone) for about a week now, and clearly am still learning my way around. Yesterday I took it "off leash" (out of beginner mode) for the first time, and had a couple of nice flights around the neighborhood. On the third flight, the...