I thought it would be a good idea to pick the brains of other pilots who have crashed or have nearly crashed by making one little teeny tiny mistake that cost them dearly. These aircraft have so much information and so many tiny details to be aware of, maybe this will help others to be more successful pilots.
For example, mine would be: "If I knew that selecting the remote's current location for the home point didn't mean that the home point would follow the remote, I would still have my Mavic Air. I wouldn't have selected that location...in a boat, on a river."
Yep, the way that it is worded isn't real clear. When you update the home point and select the remote's current location, I thought that meant the home point would follow the remote. I didn't realize that this home point had to be continually updated by the pilot, me, and when the battery hit 36%, the aircraft dropped the signal, gave me the finger, and I never saw it again. I had been running my boat down the river and it had been following me, so we were almost 2 miles downriver when this happened. And since it appeared to take the shortest distance back home, there was no possible way I could get back even close to the home point to see where it went down. I've been searching on and off for about 3 weeks with no luck, and since I pre-ordered the Mavic Air II, I'm officially throwing in the towel on the search.
But if a new pilot reads this, and they don't make that same mistake, well then that's one Mavic I've helped save. Let's hear about those little details that one might not think about.
For example, mine would be: "If I knew that selecting the remote's current location for the home point didn't mean that the home point would follow the remote, I would still have my Mavic Air. I wouldn't have selected that location...in a boat, on a river."
Yep, the way that it is worded isn't real clear. When you update the home point and select the remote's current location, I thought that meant the home point would follow the remote. I didn't realize that this home point had to be continually updated by the pilot, me, and when the battery hit 36%, the aircraft dropped the signal, gave me the finger, and I never saw it again. I had been running my boat down the river and it had been following me, so we were almost 2 miles downriver when this happened. And since it appeared to take the shortest distance back home, there was no possible way I could get back even close to the home point to see where it went down. I've been searching on and off for about 3 weeks with no luck, and since I pre-ordered the Mavic Air II, I'm officially throwing in the towel on the search.
But if a new pilot reads this, and they don't make that same mistake, well then that's one Mavic I've helped save. Let's hear about those little details that one might not think about.
