I live in a wooded area nearby a stream. Being new, I just wanted to burn batteries and practice joystick familiarity. The constant alarms because of trees were taking all the fun out of my experience. See where I’m going..... so I silenced the alerts by shutting off all avoidance sensors. I was doing great flying around and in between trees- until battery level triggered emergency RTH which I had set unknowingly to auto activate on low battery. I had the RTH set to climb to “safety” 30m and land at GPS coordinates. Problem was at the time we, my bird and me, were underneath a canopy of tall tree branches about 25m directly above. What happened next was a combination of inexperience and panic. The bird locked me out and on its own started rising to its RTH path of 30m. I guess the top camera/sensor was activated bc it looked like the bird stopped just before crashing into branches. I think I heard beeping and little buzzes of the rotors clipping thin branches while hovering. My control was locked out.. I wanted desperately to bring it down before tangling in the canopy. The dji software prompted me to “CANCEL” RTH, then instead of just doing it, the msg “cancel” or “ok” popped up. Get it? Cancel + cancel. I wanted to cancel in the worst way. I pressed cancel cancel twice in my panic. Then it sunk in and I said ok to cancel. I brought it down in a sweat. My question is (1) is there a way to make a suggestion to use less confusing words (CANCEL/CANCEL) (2) how do I know if rotors are still useable, can I trust them a little scuffed up but physically intact? Thank you
So what remains is ... practice, practice, test off all functionality ... read manual... test again. AND do it in a open space not under trees. Another tip is to use the pause button, that will halt all automated movements if you aren't in forced auto land due to critical low battery.
