Something strange happened today. I wanted to fly my Mini 2 a bit to view the new snow that fell last night. It was totally overcast. I decided to turn the Mini on inside by the front door, walk outside and hand launch initially and hover until satellites were registered. After a short time the voice said "the homepoint has been updated". I saw that we had 23 satellites.
I kept the Mini basically in a straight line in front of the house so I could see it and stood at the front window, but practicing maneuvers, mostly combinations of up and away and down and back, mostly in the N mode. But as I got closer and wanted finer control I'd switch to C mode. As I did that the voice announced "Atti mode". In fact, each time I switched to the C mode it did that. However, it did randomly switch to Atti mode when in the N mode too!
Is this normal behavior? Is the heavy overcast obstructing the work of the sats, even intermittently? I was very careful not to let it go very far out so as not to have to depend on the GPS to bring it back accurately. But I did once hit the RTH button and it did go to the proper altitude and head in the right direction home. I didn't trust it to fully land so I took canceled RTH as soon as I knew I had close in LOS and could bring it to where I could capture it again.
Can someone explain to me what is normal and abnormal behavior for the Mini 2 to switch between GPS and Atti modes and is it unusual or a malfunction when it switches on its own to Atti mode when 20+ satellites are shown in the viewfinder?
I kept the Mini basically in a straight line in front of the house so I could see it and stood at the front window, but practicing maneuvers, mostly combinations of up and away and down and back, mostly in the N mode. But as I got closer and wanted finer control I'd switch to C mode. As I did that the voice announced "Atti mode". In fact, each time I switched to the C mode it did that. However, it did randomly switch to Atti mode when in the N mode too!
Is this normal behavior? Is the heavy overcast obstructing the work of the sats, even intermittently? I was very careful not to let it go very far out so as not to have to depend on the GPS to bring it back accurately. But I did once hit the RTH button and it did go to the proper altitude and head in the right direction home. I didn't trust it to fully land so I took canceled RTH as soon as I knew I had close in LOS and could bring it to where I could capture it again.
Can someone explain to me what is normal and abnormal behavior for the Mini 2 to switch between GPS and Atti modes and is it unusual or a malfunction when it switches on its own to Atti mode when 20+ satellites are shown in the viewfinder?