Recent content by Valden

OK, it's all becoming clearer. With replies from DJI Support and some more of my own testing I'm feeling less confused about what the 'RTH at current altitude' setting for the M2P is all about. It's not good though. Firstly, it should have a different label. Instead of 'RTH at current altitude'...

I've been discussing the 'RTH at current altitude' setting with folk at DJI support. As I feared, this has resulted in increased confusion, but I'm sticking at it in the hope that they'll realise there's a problem. More than one actually. I sent them a screen shot of the warning message that...

Well I did those tests today and I'm still confused, as to what the 'RTH at current altitude' setting is meant to do. As far as I can tell, it has no effect. I had the Mavic 2 Pro hovering at 40m with the Return to Home altitude set at 20m. For several tests, the aircraft flew back to the Home...

G'day Simmo. Thanks for this. My manual for the Mavic 2 Pro has a similar page. Does your Mavic have a 'RTH at current altitude' setting? What was its effect, exactly? To be clear, with the Mavic 2 Pro and DJI Go 4 there are settings for both 'RTH at current altitude' and 'Return-to-Home...

So I did some testing of the 'RTH at current altitude' setting today. The results are not what I was expecting. With a number of flights I positioned the Mavic 2 Pro on the other side of a 3m high hedge, at a distance of 60m from the home point. With the M2P hovering at 2m above ground I...

I'm thinking that panning the gimbal rather than yawing the drone will keep the forward looking sensors looking forward. Should help with obstacle avoidance. According to the manual (page 22), the side looking sensors don't operate other than in ActiveTrack and Tripod modes, which I generally...

Thanks Kilrah. I'll be giving it a try tomorrow and I expect I'll find it to be fine too. I will add though that I've found the two presses technique for turning the controller on or off to be a bit tricky. There's a narrow window for getting the pause between the presses just right. A good...

Thank you Kilrah. I found it on page 44 of the manual, edition 2018.08. There's a text error at this point in the manual. The text of the paragraph titled Remote Controller Alert is printed twice, the first time as part of the paragraph above, titled C1 and C2 Button. ;) DJI's engineers must...

Great news. Dewster, can you point to it please? Thanks.

Thanks Meta. It looks like we agree - on what the 'RTH at current altitude' setting might do. If we don't get confirmation from testing, I'll do some.

Thanks for raising this Reemas. I'm also trying to figure out the relationship between the following, under Main Controller Settings: - RTH at current altitude, and - Return-to-home Altitude Version 2018.08 of the manual advises (on page 18 under the heading RTH Procedure) that if the aircraft...

Yes - mine is. As mentioned, if I keep my arm still and lower the M2P towards it, it works. But if I try to sneak my arm up to the hovering M2P, it lifts up and away.

A funny thing happened while practicing this catch method today. On one occasion the M2P reacted to my hand moving under it and wafted up out of reach, to about three metres. I must have kept my left thumb on the stick, as the M2P then went into a landing manoeuvre I couldn't stop. Short grass =...

Thanks for this Smiffy. I just watched the video linked above and saw that he was using just his left thumb, as you describe. From the way the M2P was flying it looked like he still had his downward vision systems activated, which is handy. Excellent - this will make launching and retrieving out...

Hi bobomet and beautiful assistant. A few moments ago my son and I tested a hand catch with our M2P, again. Yesterday we noticed that the aircraft would pull up gently as my son's hand got close underneath. Today, in a hover at about 2m and before the catch attempt, I deactivated the downward...