We had a very pretty fog settle into the neighborhood this morning. I got out my trusty still camera and got a few nice shots, then began wondering what I could get with my Mavic Air.
I sent the drone straight up from the driveway in front of my home. I was hoping to get it above the fog bank, but that never happened. My location is just a few miles from a major airport, and partly because of that I had the maximum altitude set to 400 feet. When the drone reached that height, it was still enveloped in solid fog. I couldn't see much of anything in the view from my remote (the view from the camera).
At that point, I decided to give up and bring the drone back home. I hit the RTH button on the remote, but after coming down just a few feet it slowed its descent and mostly just hovered in place. I used the joysticks to try to force it to descend. That worked, but the descent seemed agonizingly slow. It took much longer than usual to come back to earth. After it eventually descended to maybe 80 feet, it seemed to get its bearings again and landed normally. I figure that was when it started seeing structures again.
Is this normal behavior when a Mavic Air is launched into a fog? Is there a more effective, and hopefully quicker, method to bring it back home again under these circumstances? Maybe sports mode (which I pretty much never use)?
Larry
P.S. Just for fun, I had the drone take a couple of photos while it was at maximum altitude. I would post them, but they look like the view from the inside of a cotton ball.
I sent the drone straight up from the driveway in front of my home. I was hoping to get it above the fog bank, but that never happened. My location is just a few miles from a major airport, and partly because of that I had the maximum altitude set to 400 feet. When the drone reached that height, it was still enveloped in solid fog. I couldn't see much of anything in the view from my remote (the view from the camera).
At that point, I decided to give up and bring the drone back home. I hit the RTH button on the remote, but after coming down just a few feet it slowed its descent and mostly just hovered in place. I used the joysticks to try to force it to descend. That worked, but the descent seemed agonizingly slow. It took much longer than usual to come back to earth. After it eventually descended to maybe 80 feet, it seemed to get its bearings again and landed normally. I figure that was when it started seeing structures again.
Is this normal behavior when a Mavic Air is launched into a fog? Is there a more effective, and hopefully quicker, method to bring it back home again under these circumstances? Maybe sports mode (which I pretty much never use)?
Larry
P.S. Just for fun, I had the drone take a couple of photos while it was at maximum altitude. I would post them, but they look like the view from the inside of a cotton ball.
