I want to share a story of a insident where I almost lost my mavic.
I had an assignment where I had to fly near airport, a low altitude shot without any danger involved even though flying in the guts of a no fly zone. I, being a law abiding citizen contacted the authorities, in this case simply the flytower of my city's airport. I was granted their permission to do what I described I would have to do. This flight involved take off inside the NFZ and simply I would fly out of it. Which I did.
Everything went good and I had no trouble taking off like I had tought off might happen. I tought I might be grounded by geo inside the red circle of NFZ.
When I was going back to homepoint, where I was standing I hit a wall. I was completely locked out of the circle by invisible wall, even rth didn't work.
I was careless and flew more on the battery than I should have, but at the time I tought, I'll just need 3 minutes more to finish, it would be nonsense to return as soon as the 30% beep started......
....Think again
I ended up running at the end of the circle and just in time I managed to control the forced emergency landing to a save spot. I landed at 4%. Hardly able to breath after the long sprint to get there....
This was a close call, but knowing where I was wrong, what I should have done differently. Should this happen? Shouldn't I always be able to return home, If I was able to make that a homepoint in the first place?
If dji is going to babysit me, I would prefer them to do it properly.
I had an assignment where I had to fly near airport, a low altitude shot without any danger involved even though flying in the guts of a no fly zone. I, being a law abiding citizen contacted the authorities, in this case simply the flytower of my city's airport. I was granted their permission to do what I described I would have to do. This flight involved take off inside the NFZ and simply I would fly out of it. Which I did.
Everything went good and I had no trouble taking off like I had tought off might happen. I tought I might be grounded by geo inside the red circle of NFZ.
When I was going back to homepoint, where I was standing I hit a wall. I was completely locked out of the circle by invisible wall, even rth didn't work.
I was careless and flew more on the battery than I should have, but at the time I tought, I'll just need 3 minutes more to finish, it would be nonsense to return as soon as the 30% beep started......
....Think again
I ended up running at the end of the circle and just in time I managed to control the forced emergency landing to a save spot. I landed at 4%. Hardly able to breath after the long sprint to get there....
This was a close call, but knowing where I was wrong, what I should have done differently. Should this happen? Shouldn't I always be able to return home, If I was able to make that a homepoint in the first place?
If dji is going to babysit me, I would prefer them to do it properly.