Flew my drone into the woods

[RaWine]

It wasn't just woods with trees a couple feet apart, but had to stop and start, go up and down dodging twigs. I got far enough in I wasn't sure which way was out. I finally hit a twig or something and thought I was done for, but drone stayed up. I got out safely but was pretty close to running out of power. I had set it on hover so if I lost signal it wouldn't return to home.

I did this with my mini 2 with mini ipad for screen. Anyway, it was an interesting challenge. I was actually looking for anything, that might make a good reference photo for an oil painting. But I was also interested if I would see anything of interest. It wasn't an area you could get into easily without a machete.

I should have turned on the camera to tilt up though. Also, I should have planned for extra time to get out. I'm sure I could have got the right direction with the map, but did it without needing it.

Hey,, I also read a story about some guys finding an old box full of gold coins in the woods. Hah, so... likely not, but you never know. If my drone was as expensive as some of the new ones, I wouldn't do it.

 

[mavic3usa]

So what happens if you lose signal and your drone hovers and then when it hits lower battery and you haven't yet regained the signal?

 

[MS Coast]

So what happens if you lose signal and your drone hovers and then when it hits lower battery and you haven't yet regained the signal?

It continues to hover until the critical battery threshold is reached, and then it lands.

 

[slup]

It continues to hover until the critical battery threshold is reached, and then it lands.

That's not entirely correct... before the forced critical low voltage auto landing gets initiated, a low battery RTH will kick in.

The low battery RTH will give you a 10sec counter before proceeding where you can chose to either RTH or cancel. If you have lost the connection to the drone you can't "cancel"... meaning, even if you have the failsafe action set to hover to prevent a RTH in a situation where it's obstacles above/around the drone... the drone will still RTH & ascend up into the obstacles if you can't reach the drone & regain the connection before the battery gets too low.