Flying without video feed

[jackzed1]

Hey everyone I'm just wondering if it is possible to continue flying using the gps and map once you lose video feed?

 

[old man mavic]

Hey everyone I'm just wondering if it is possible to continue flying using the gps and map once you lose video feed?

you should still be able to control the drone ,press RTH button on controller and then you can cancell it if video comes back or you want to land it yourself

 

[jackzed1]

Thanks for that mate, so do you think you could keep flying further away from you or does the controller range cut out at same time as video?

 

[old man mavic]

Thanks for that mate, so do you think you could keep flying further away from you or does the controller range cut out at same time as video?

i would not really want to fly further away unless i had a video feed to my screen as there would be no orientation data to guide you,if the screen went blank
sometimes the video will just freeze if its a total loss of connection ie video feed and RC to drone then after a few seconds the drone should go into auto RTH as long as it is further than 20m from the home point

 

[jackzed1]

Thankyou greatly

i would not really want to fly further away unless i had a video feed to my screen as there would be no orientation data to guide you,if the screen went blank
sometimes the video will just freeze if its a total loss of connection ie video feed and RC to drone then after a few seconds the drone should go into auto RTH as long as it is further than 20m from the home point

 

[E90RAW]

i would not really want to fly further away unless i had a video feed to my screen as there would be no orientation data to guide you,if the screen went blank
sometimes the video will just freeze if its a total loss of connection ie video feed and RC to drone then after a few seconds the drone should go into auto RTH as long as it is further than 20m from the home point

Good advise! Nothing worse than losing video feed and you dont have VLOS. The only option is RTH. I had this occur at night and had to turn on the LEDs to see the drone.

 

[DrizzyDrones]

Question I know that the mini can fly with just a controller of course I wouldn’t but for curiosity if you were to send it out in a straight flight would the return to home and battery failsafe still work the same? Would gps still function?

 

[EyesWideShut]

Question I know that the mini can fly with just a controller of course I wouldn’t but for curiosity if you were to send it out in a straight flight would the return to home and battery failsafe still work the same? Would gps still function?

Yes, the "Loss of Signal" RTH settings would remain the same and GPS still works. They are part of the mini, not in the controller or phone.

 

[DrizzyDrones]

But why is it if u unplug your phone it returns. Mabye ud have to initiaislly start flight without the phone?