I totally agree with zeusfl that flying your battery to such a low level is hard on the battery. I have experienced 2 forced landings with my old M1 where I manually sustained flight to a safe area but totally expended all charge. After doing this the battery was bricked in both cases. I am not about to try this with my more expensive M3 batteries. With such a long battery capacity there is no need to run it so low.
I think DJI should make the information about "safe battery practice" and the "danger of induced forced landing" more clear and obvious in the manual. Not that everyone reads manuals from A to Z but that way at least the info would be out there for everyone to see. Best straight on first or second page and in bold and large capital letters!!
Again... that's not true. The critical low battery auto landing is height dependent & not a fixed percentage... go back to post #9 & read.
Because it enables you to use the ‘Find my Drone’ feature if it has landed out of sight.
I completely agree that, as an experienced pilot, I want to be fully in control of the landing of the aircraft, until the battery can no longer sustain flight (which is roughly 2 minutes after 0% battery is displayed), even if prolonging flight damages the battery in the process, as preserving the aircraft is far more important than ruining a single battery. A premature forced landing could be into a lake or the ocean or over a cliff from which I am flying, or onto a busy street or intersection, or an inaccessible backyard nearby. Let me fly it all the way back to me, as long as the battery can still sustain flight!
I'm not sure what you mean by silencing the transducer. Is that something you do on drone hacks? Forced landing is ok if you're no longer connected to the drone. Is that maintained? But I agree that this forced landing while you are still connected is more likely to lose your drone than save it. Steve
The transducer on the RC-N1 must be manually silenced by drilling a hole in top of the case and inserting a cut off Q tip into the tiny hole on the top of the transducer. The same can be done on the RC Pro and the DJI RC. However, it has been discovered that the volume setting on the RC Pro can silence the transducer as well, after turning the volume down to 0 and then checking the popup box to silence ALL sounds. No drilling needed! Unsure about whether the DJI RC can be silenced this way, too, or if still requires drilling.
Right, but if the drone isn't connected, and the battery gets to 10%, it will still do a forced landing, even if forced landing is turned off, right?
It shouldn't. Once forced landing is turned off at 10%, it won't land at 10% even under autonomous RTH control. It will continue to keep coming home until the battery is completely exhausted, which what you want it to do, if it is over water or irretrievable if it lands anywhere else, other than back at the launch site or the current Home Point setting. The difference is that you don't have to fight the descent with full up left stick. It will maintain its RTH altitude until signal can be restored, or it reaches the Home Point and lands under RTH.
