Hi
As I lost my first
Mavic 3 in a forest inside a valley I needed a second drone for searching the loss.
As I was new to drones and got in a shortage of time due to low battery the drone emergency landed into the trees.
The drone did initialize the way back to its homepoint and got caught up in a altitude of about 100 feet in beetwen
" roofs of branches ". The Mavic tried allways to move forward and sideward to get out of its missy situation.
Taking over control through the sticks I managed to fly backward. The drone then climed above the forest and tried again
to get down to the homepoint. In the meantime the battery became so low it landed inside the trees.
Now there might be a discussion if the SW should be aware about such situations . At least DJI is aware about it
( support case ) and just wanted to sell another overprized new drone...
As I never had another drone I think the Mavic is a very good product. Through my new experience the most important
thing is to be aware that the pilot has the capability to switch of the collision avoidance ( APAS 5.0 ) .
With this option the search for the lost drone is possible at all - otherwise the branches are just to narrow...
What was very surprising as well ( DJI -Support ), is the fact they never asked for the - MCDatFlightRecords - .
As only DJI can analyse these files , think this would have been essential to findings...
The bad story is as well that these files are overwritten by the SW ( the latest after three flights... )
So assume we have to learn and pay for our experience...
Keep in touch
and be aware to switch of APAS
Kind Regards
p-51d