Bought my first drone less than a week ago. After several short flights where I'm super cautious, I decide to go a tad bit farther. The wind and weather is the warmest and lightest it has been (15mph @ 100ft, but the river obviously had a different speed).
Here's the video (from my smart device). At 1:00 I realize I've flown too far and begin to come back. Then I realize I'm only getting farther away...
I panic near the end and turn off the video as I frantically try to get it back home, $1,000 is not something that comes lightly to me.
Eventually the wind lets up after 2-3 minutes of absolute torture and Return to Home brings it back.
What did I do wrong?
Aside from flying in bad winds, I believe there's a couple of things I did wrong. I could use some pointers here so this doesn't happen to me again.
- I frantically hit Return to Home, which ascended the drone some more.
- I should have descended manually (before heading back?), where the wind would have been lighter.
- I tried to switch into Sport Mode, not knowing that I needed to have a setting enabled in the menu. I didn't know how to access this setting at the time so ended up being unable to go into Sport.
If I'm assessing the situation correctly, if I switched into Sport and descended first, I should have been able to return home MUCH easier. GPS in high winds made it much harder to make the return home.
Any advice/tips appreciated. I very clearly have much to learn and this was almost a $1,000 lesson.
Here's the video (from my smart device). At 1:00 I realize I've flown too far and begin to come back. Then I realize I'm only getting farther away...
I panic near the end and turn off the video as I frantically try to get it back home, $1,000 is not something that comes lightly to me.
Eventually the wind lets up after 2-3 minutes of absolute torture and Return to Home brings it back.
What did I do wrong?
Aside from flying in bad winds, I believe there's a couple of things I did wrong. I could use some pointers here so this doesn't happen to me again.
- I frantically hit Return to Home, which ascended the drone some more.
- I should have descended manually (before heading back?), where the wind would have been lighter.
- I tried to switch into Sport Mode, not knowing that I needed to have a setting enabled in the menu. I didn't know how to access this setting at the time so ended up being unable to go into Sport.
If I'm assessing the situation correctly, if I switched into Sport and descended first, I should have been able to return home MUCH easier. GPS in high winds made it much harder to make the return home.
Any advice/tips appreciated. I very clearly have much to learn and this was almost a $1,000 lesson.
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