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I was flying today from a boat launch near a collapsed dam and managed to get some pretty good shots. However, mid flight at an altitude of 171FT and distance of 1,647FT the DJI GO app indicated aircraft disconnected and I believe the RC flashed some additional messages. The Mavic had just exited my VLOS behind a stand of trees and bend in the river (never doing that again). Admittedly I panicked and turned the remote off to restart it (should have just hit the RTH button/restarted the DJI GO app). After restarting the DJI app reconnected to the Mavic and I was relieved to see that it was ascending to RTH altitude and I watched as it landed on its own within an inch of where I took off from just six minutes before. It all happened so quickly (but felt like a lifetime waiting for it to come into view) so I'm not sure exactly what went wrong. I'm beginning to think it was just a simple crash of the DJI app and that the RC never actually lost connection.
I brought my Mavic home and hooked it up to my PC to try and access the flight data via DJI Assistant 2.0. I have a limited understanding of this application so I wasn't able to come up with anything. Understandably I am little nervous putting this thing back in the air - despite it behaving as designed. Is there anything I should do just in case before the next flight (calibrate everything, reinstall firmware)?
Also, I entered the flight simulator on the assistant program (didn't actually use it) and now under my flight lists in the DJI app it lists flights in Shenzhen, China and flight records of 9,000FT+ distance and an altitude record of over 6,380FT. Not sure what this is about...
I brought my Mavic home and hooked it up to my PC to try and access the flight data via DJI Assistant 2.0. I have a limited understanding of this application so I wasn't able to come up with anything. Understandably I am little nervous putting this thing back in the air - despite it behaving as designed. Is there anything I should do just in case before the next flight (calibrate everything, reinstall firmware)?
Also, I entered the flight simulator on the assistant program (didn't actually use it) and now under my flight lists in the DJI app it lists flights in Shenzhen, China and flight records of 9,000FT+ distance and an altitude record of over 6,380FT. Not sure what this is about...