Dont fly too low above the water. The drone will get confused and may attempt to autoland.Sorry, don’t understand what you are advising
Dont fly too low above the water. The drone will get confused and may attempt to autoland.Sorry, don’t understand what you are advising
Correct. The height that the MA2 reports back is alway based on the height at which it took off. Fly up 50ft from take off point and it will report +50ft. Fly 20ft down a hill, cliff, sea wall etc and it will report -20ft. Consequently, it could be telling you a negative height when in fact you know you are higher than the ground or water belowCan i ad something with out sounding like a no it all
When you take off the height on the screen is where you take off from.
If you take off say on a hill 50ft higher than the water your reading actually over the water isn't correct
Hope this makes sense
Got youDont fly too low above the water. The drone will get confused and may attempt to autoland.
Actually the manual says nothing of any danger flying over water or reflective surfaces.The manual explains the dangers of flying over water and other reflective surfaces.
Can i ad something with out sounding like a no it all
When you take off the height on the screen is where you take off from.
If you take off say on a hill 50ft higher than the water your reading actually over the water isn't correct
Hope this makes sense
Guess again.My guess is that as it knows where it is by GPS, if it has any mapping data access, or cached then it might know you have moved from an area at 25M high, to one at 0M high and read accordingly. I stand ready to be corrected of course.
Dont fly too low above the water. The drone will get confused and may attempt to autoland.
I would like to hear about those incidents because I have never seen any such reports. So far it's just theory to me.
I beg to differ but I won't advise turning off the bottom sensors because if the pilot forgets to turn them back on again ( likely I would say ) before landing and the pilot applies full throttle down to land the craft as usual. The landing will be quite hard.
This one i can confirm - I lost a brand new M2P when it autolanded into water - my mistake was trying to get to close. as long as you maintain a minimum of 10' you should be fine, but of course that is hard to judge from a distance. if you are at altititude, no problem - i do that all the time and feel confident in the reliability of the drone. have yet to have a bird interaction but have seen plenty of them on youtube.Dont fly too low above the water. The drone will get confused and may attempt to autoland.
I would like to hear about those incidents because I have never seen any such reports. So far it's just theory to me.
I beg to differ but I won't advise turning off the bottom sensors because if the pilot forgets to turn them back on again ( likely I would say ) before landing and the pilot applies full throttle down to land the craft as usual. The landing will be quite hard.
At what point in the video does the drone land itself?So we should be past theory by now as you can see how the sensors can get miss led by both water and sun reflections.
When I think of flying over the water , I think of something like this . I have flown in snow so thick that the drone tried to land do to the sensors.
Skip the first 5 minutes ,
Can you share more detail, like what did the flight logs indicate? I have flown over the water extensively, but at considerable height.This one i can confirm - I lost a brand new M2P when it autolanded into water - my mistake was trying to get to close. as long as you maintain a minimum of 10' you should be fine, but of course that is hard to judge from a distance. if you are at altititude, no problem - i do that all the time and feel confident in the reliability of the drone. have yet to have a bird interaction but have seen plenty of them on youtube.
But that applies to every time you fly!Most important…Make absolutely sure that your drone has updated its HomePoint, BEFORE you fly out over the water. If it takes of in ATI mode and then gets it’s GPS lock when it is over the water, it will remember the first point at which it got GPS lock as it’s home point…..And you really don’t want it to think it’s home point is in the middle of a river!
But that applies to every time you fly!
I have unfortunately had my M2 pro go for a swim. I had been flying for about 15 minutes still had battery in the 25 % range and was hovering about 40 ft from the beach perhaps 20 ft in the air. The drone announced landing and headed and started to descend. I applied full throttle and ending up biting it about 5 ft from shore in 3 ft of water . We all know they sink right . I had my hands on it before it touched bottom. DJI care has me back in the air. Because if something goes wrong drones sink I am now particular about flying with floats. I have an inflatable pair, but they are pretty flimsy. Iris Raptor makes a “scooocum “set that I am waiting to arrive. AND, the legs they attach to re create the same landing pedestal as the phantom series, which is the one thing I miss about my phantom 3 since I upgraded. Looking forward to be able to catch my Mavic as we used to catch the phantom from the boat deck. Certainly having to land in rough water isn’t going to be a happy ending, as the drone will certainly flip over with floats on, BUT IT WILL NOT SINK.
Guess again.
Your drone has no way of knowing if the ground below it is 10 metres or 1000 metres down.
The height displayed on your screen will always be the height above (or below) the launch point.