Reading about max pitch angle and corresponding max speed, I started to wonder if the GPS has any effect on how fast Mavic is able to fly downwind. Obviously, when there's wind and Mavic is hovering in place, it is actually flying horizontally against the wind, i.e. its airspeed is equal to windspeed. It's GPS that is forcing Mavic to fly at some airspeed while there's no input on the sticks. Now, imagine you're flying downwind in some layer with 60mph wind, and Mavic's own max airspeed is 40mph. Will it have 100mph groundspeed? Or GPS will intervene and cap the groundspeed at some lower value? Mavic is different from "passive" aircraft which simply move relative to the airmass at some airspeed determined by their power and aerodynamic configuration, and their resultant groundspeed is a simple vector sum of airspeed and windspeed. But if Mavic is trying to compensate autonomously, is it too smart for its own good?
