Any way to disable obstacle avoidance?

[Buel]

Hi all.

Did a bit of close up photography on the weekend and had to do it in Speed mode because I wanted to get close to the object - is there a way of using the other modes but disabling the obstacle avoidance?

 

[Bad Santa]

Hi all.

Did a bit of close up photography on the weekend and had to do it in Speed mode because I wanted to get close to the object - is there a way of using the other modes but disabling the obstacle avoidance?

Yup. Just go into the menus. It's pretty easy to find.

 

[old man mavic]

how about turning it off (as in read the Manual)

 

[Bad Santa]

how about turning it off (as in read the Manual)

RTDM is NEVER an appropriate reply in a forum. IMHO

 

[Meta4]

Hi all.

Did a bit of close up photography on the weekend and had to do it in Speed mode because I wanted to get close to the object - is there a way of using the other modes but disabling the obstacle avoidance?

You'll find lots of interesting and useful things like this when you explore the app settings.

BTW .. using Sport Mode to fly close to obstacles is quite risky.
You don't want the controls to be twitchy and the response to be "sporty" when obstacles are close to your drone.

 

[old man mavic]

@Bad Santa no rudeness intended ,i just said(read the manual) ,thats what its for

 

[KJC Imaging]

I rarely need the flight dynamics offered by sport mode but I often need to switch off obstacle avoidance quickly. So, I've set the gains and expos of sport mode to the same as normal mode. Now when I need to maneuver close to an object but the drone stops because of obstacle avoidance, I can just switch to sport mode (which has no obstacle avoidance) and fly closer.