Experienced my 1st scary experience

[RMundy806]

So I am fairly new to drone flying. I have a Mavic Air 2, today while on a flight around my home I hit the RTH button and my drone responded by climbing to a height of nearly 700 ft before I could gain control, cancel the RTH command and navigate it back home. The battery was about 70% when I began my flight and at about 30% when I activated the RTH command. Any thoughts of what might have happened?

 

[sar104]

Post the flight log.

 

[Meta4]

Any thoughts of what might have happened?

At a guess, I'd say that your RTH height was set to about 700 feet or more.
(When you set the RTH height, it's in metres not feet).

But post your flight data and it will confirm.

 

[Lionfish]

I’m with Meta 4 on this one .
It’s always a good idea to check your RTH settings are appropriate for where you are flying , and after any firmware updates .As I learned shortly after the latest firmware update on the M2’s .

Learn from it and fly on !! .

 

[ATP]

Check if you are in the metric or imperial setting for the RTH altitude.
As mentioned above.

 

[Meta4]

Check if you are in the metric or imperial setting for the RTH altitude.
As mentioned above.

There is no metric or imperial setting for RTH height.
It is only in metric

 

[BadWolf1]

There is no metric or imperial setting for RTH height.
It is only in metric

We'll need the logs, but I'm going to guess someone put in 200 thinking it was feet and accidentally set 656 feet. (And in case anyone thinks this a new drone pilots thing, I'll say "google the gimli glider")

 

[Made2Phly]

Although RTH setting is in meters, for those of us in silly** countries that don't use metric (** e.g., two sets of wrenches, sockets and allen heads=dumb), right below the altitude box it converts it to feet.

P.S. My post refers to M2P. I dunno about other DJI quads.

 

[iaincaradoc]

We'll need the logs, but I'm going to guess someone put in 200 thinking it was feet and accidentally set 656 feet. (And in case anyone thinks this a new drone pilots thing, I'll say "google the gimli glider")

Or "Mars Climate Orbiter?"

 

[whatthe2]

There is no metric or imperial setting for RTH height.
It is only in metric

Mine shows in ft.

 

[2Mavics4AManiac]

mine displays imperial as well, when changed in settings

 

[Meta4]

mine displays imperial as well, when changed in settings

Sounds like DJI fixed one very old problem with DJI Fly

 

[aokusman]

What’s your max altitude setting at ?

 

[Rmcolon]

Mine shows in ft.
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That is in DJI Fly or DJI Go 4? I use DJI Go 4 for my M2P and the RTH is set in meters, but below the box shows the feet conversion.

 

[whatthe2]

That is in DJI Fly or DJI Go 4? I use DJI Go 4 for my M2P and the RTH is set in meters, but below the box shows the feet conversion.

DJI fly

 

[Flycaster]

And remember, anytime you go for an "update", check all your setting in the App.
It usually resets them to "default"....
Or you may be "surprised"....