It has recently "come to light" in here
Mini 2 has the pitch angle limited when the camera is pointing straight down
that, when the camera is pointing significantly downwards, the Mini 2 limits (reduces) the maximum tilt of the drone when the drone is in C and P flight modes. The drone's tilt equates to its air speed and as such this results in a significant reduction in the maximum airspeeds available in those flight modes.
This constraint is supposed to be over ridden in strong winds BUT, as per teeroy's posts in the above thread etc., it seems that the Mini 2 can be 'blown away' as a consequence of this constraint and possibly before any strong wind warnings are issued.
I was interested to see if this is 'new' behaviour is limited to the Mini 2 and or v1.2.... of the app. So yesterday I did a trial flight with my MM, App version 1.1.6, firmware 1.0.5. it was largely a windless day here.
In P mode, with the gimbal pointing down, my MM was limited to 4m/s or less. I did not think to try it in RTH. With the RH stick (mode 2) fully forward/backward I could vary my MM's speed from 8ish m/s to 4ish m/s using the gimbal dial.
The constraint is not active in S mode.
So..... if your MM is being blown away and you have the camera pointing down, move the camera upwards to closer to the horizontal and or switch to S mode. I wouldn't go above the horizontal, there appears to be some debate about whether there is a similar limitation if the camera is near the upper limit of its travel.
I realise "switch to S mode" is already part of the suggested procedure for a MM blow away but knowledge of the 'additional' speed limitations is new, to me at least, so I thought this warranted drawing peoples' attention to 'new' limitation.
My flights yesterday, up and down the garden, were too short to produce log charts worth posting and today was too windy to fly. But I will try to make a flight where a log chart will demonstrate this and also see if applies to RTH mode too.
Mini 2 has the pitch angle limited when the camera is pointing straight down
that, when the camera is pointing significantly downwards, the Mini 2 limits (reduces) the maximum tilt of the drone when the drone is in C and P flight modes. The drone's tilt equates to its air speed and as such this results in a significant reduction in the maximum airspeeds available in those flight modes.
This constraint is supposed to be over ridden in strong winds BUT, as per teeroy's posts in the above thread etc., it seems that the Mini 2 can be 'blown away' as a consequence of this constraint and possibly before any strong wind warnings are issued.
I was interested to see if this is 'new' behaviour is limited to the Mini 2 and or v1.2.... of the app. So yesterday I did a trial flight with my MM, App version 1.1.6, firmware 1.0.5. it was largely a windless day here.
In P mode, with the gimbal pointing down, my MM was limited to 4m/s or less. I did not think to try it in RTH. With the RH stick (mode 2) fully forward/backward I could vary my MM's speed from 8ish m/s to 4ish m/s using the gimbal dial.
The constraint is not active in S mode.
So..... if your MM is being blown away and you have the camera pointing down, move the camera upwards to closer to the horizontal and or switch to S mode. I wouldn't go above the horizontal, there appears to be some debate about whether there is a similar limitation if the camera is near the upper limit of its travel.
I realise "switch to S mode" is already part of the suggested procedure for a MM blow away but knowledge of the 'additional' speed limitations is new, to me at least, so I thought this warranted drawing peoples' attention to 'new' limitation.
My flights yesterday, up and down the garden, were too short to produce log charts worth posting and today was too windy to fly. But I will try to make a flight where a log chart will demonstrate this and also see if applies to RTH mode too.
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Look forward to any further data.
