"Current Location" vs "Original Location"

[Lone Droner 10]

Has anyone ever had this warning option appear when activating RTH?

 

[royster]

Had you moved a considerable distance from when your home point was recorded?
I would hit "original location" as I'd assume this message meant- "You want bird to go back to your take off point or where your RC is now", but, someone with more expierence than I may chime in here.
BTW- Is there a spellchecker somewhere in message headings?(I think I continually misspell -expierence)

 

[CamoGreg]

Don't remember but I think msinger gave already an explanation ! Check with him !

 

[Lone Droner 10]

No, I had not moved. In fact, before I took off I made sure I got the verbal confirmation "The homepoint has been updated". Long story short, after flying about 1000' away I decided to RTH and when I did not hear the Mavic in like, 30 seconds, I looked at the controller and that is when I saw the options. I selected "current Location" and the Mavic never returned. Telemetry said I was 45,000' from home! Battery ran out - used latitude and longitude to find it. It was halfway down a very sleep slope and unreachable in a safe manner. I have sent the flight record to DJI and am awaiting response.

 

[CamoGreg]

Drone did not RTH!

Drone did not RTH!

 

[Lone Droner 10]

Nope! Gone! I have contacted DJI and sent them the flight record. We will see what they say. Was only 1 week old.

 

[CamoGreg]

Yes but read the post ! (Link)

 

[Engelsione]

So from what I can read never chose (current)! Always(original) since was the take off location correct?

 

[CamoGreg]

This is what I understand

 

[rcflyingaddict]

No, I had not moved. In fact, before I took off I made sure I got the verbal confirmation "The homepoint has been updated". Long story short, after flying about 1000' away I decided to RTH and when I did not hear the Mavic in like, 30 seconds, I looked at the controller and that is when I saw the options. I selected "current Location" and the Mavic never returned. Telemetry said I was 45,000' from home! Battery ran out - used latitude and longitude to find it. It was halfway down a very sleep slope and unreachable in a safe manner. I have sent the flight record to DJI and am awaiting response.

Were you able to recover it from the slope?

 

[Lone Droner 10]

Were you able to recover it from the slope?

Nope - too dangerous

 

[msinger]

So from what I can read never chose (current)! Always(original) since was the take off location correct?

If you choose original, your Mavic will return to the current home point. If you choose current, your home point will be reset to your mobile device's current location (the location it's reporting) and the Mavic will immediately return to that new home point.

 

[Lone Droner 10]

Well, had my iPhone connected to the controller and it still never returned - awaiting diagnosis of my flight record from DJI. I only had the Mavic for one week however this is my second one in two weeks. First one simply disconnected about 2,500 ' from home point and RTH did not work at all. Ran out of battery and crashed. Broke off camera and one folding leg. Insurance replaced that one but insurance co. is sort of flinching about paying for second one. This will be a good test I guess of DJI's feelings towards their customers.

 

[stressor]

Can you update this thread Lone Droner 10? Anyone else had this current home vs new home issue??

 

[Lone Droner 10]

Can you update this thread Lone Droner 10? Anyone else had this current home vs new home issue??

All I can state is DJI replaced the Mavic but they did not offer any reasons why the RTH failed