Litchi and custom speeds

[Robert Leigh]

You're always warned that if a waypoint has a custom speed, if the craft loses signal when it's at that waypoint, it will continue the mission at that custom speed rather than reverting to the cruising speed. This is a problem you need to speed out to somewhere distant to conserve the battery, fly slowly to photograph when you get there, then speed back.

I wonder if the solution would be to use custom speeds for every waypoint, making them faster when you need to? If you lost signal at a slow-speed waypoint, would it speed up once it got to the next waypoint if a faster custom speed was set at that waypoint Anyone know?

I think I might set up a test flight with varying custom speeds, switch off the controller and see what happens.

 

[Logger]

It will only change speed if the Mavic is connected to the remote. So if it lost signal after a low speed WPT it will not change speed until it regains signal and passes another WPT that has the app triggering a programmed speed change.

I have always seen the risk being a signal loss during the high speed transit, leading to a crash when the aircraft fails to slow up and negotiate a tight manuoevring segent intended to be flown slowly. S'Pose a strategy could be to have it RTH on signal loss in lieu of continue. Then at least you could prevent a collision.