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    Mavic Mini Signal Loss Causing Loss of Aircraft over Water

    Thanks for taking the time to look into this. A height of 117m would have definitely cleared any obstacles along that path. I did have someone wait at the home point for over an hour with no luck.
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    Mavic Mini Signal Loss Causing Loss of Aircraft over Water

    Thanks for spotting this. After doing some investigation into previous logs it appears the aircraft was by default set to Hover however changes to Landing during the first flight. I did not change this manually and have read a few accounts of it change without input. Here is the log of my first...
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    Mavic Mini Signal Loss Causing Loss of Aircraft over Water

    I would say I was at the last location with 25 minutes
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    Mavic Mini Signal Loss Causing Loss of Aircraft over Water

    I had walked to the end of the jetty so I had a clearer line of sight across the water
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    Mavic Mini Signal Loss Causing Loss of Aircraft over Water

    I had not changed this. By default I was under the impression the fail safe should be return to home. It had also given me the message it was returning to home if connection was not restablished.
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    Mavic Mini Signal Loss Causing Loss of Aircraft over Water

    Thanks for the help! I don't think I can check the RTH settings now - although I had successfully used the RTH function on the flight prior. I also checked the last location on a boat to see if I see or hear it hovering.
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    Mavic Mini Signal Loss Causing Loss of Aircraft over Water

    I recently purchased my first drone - a refurbished Mavic Mini. However over the weekend I unfortunately lost it over a lake caused by a loss of signal. I had taken the aircraft off on full battery with a return to home location set. After taking a short video the feed on the DJI fly app began...