Hi all,
New DJI pilot here, I decided to make the upgrade to a Mavic Air 2 after playing around with a Holy Stone for about a year and a half. It ended up being a short lived experience, lol.....
After testing it out at home I brought it up to the family cottage to stretch things out in some open areas. I flew for about 10 mins and ended up sending it out ~2.2 km (1.37 mi) at 100m (328 ft) altitude and had about 60% battery remaining before signal started to get a bit choppy at which point I activated RTH on the phone screen.
I fumbled for a few minutes to get gloves on while waiting for RTH. When I picked up the controller and looked at the display it had only come back about 100m, but had flown up over 350m (1200+ ft)! Pretty wild (and dangerous!) considering I set RTH altitude to 100m, one of the first things I adjusted as per instructions. At this point I took over control to bring it back towards me (and back down to Earth), but that only lasted about a minute and then my phone shut off because I had been outside for a while and I guess the cold had cause a quick battery drop. I pressed RTH on the controller and hoped that either that or eventually low battery would bring it back home, but it never came back. I also got the app up and running within a few minutes, which should have been fast enough that the drone would have still had some juice had it been hovering but I was never able to reestablish a connection. Bummer .
I should mention that a couple days before I had taken it out for a test run and had activated RTH from about 1km away and the drone hovered without moving for about a minute and a half, at which point I got annoyed with the beeping and brought it back manually.
Does anyone have an idea what the issue may have been here? Other than RTH altitude and camera settings every other setting was default. The weather was a bit below freezing between -5 and -7°C, within specs (14° to 104° F / -10° to 40° C), maybe pushing the lower end but the drone had been inside up until a few minutes before flying. There was a slight breeze that day, but not enough to get knocked around or have any noticeable resistance while flying. Everything seemed normal as far as I could tell other than RTH which gave me issues for the second time in as many attempts. Any insight would be much appreciated.
New DJI pilot here, I decided to make the upgrade to a Mavic Air 2 after playing around with a Holy Stone for about a year and a half. It ended up being a short lived experience, lol.....
After testing it out at home I brought it up to the family cottage to stretch things out in some open areas. I flew for about 10 mins and ended up sending it out ~2.2 km (1.37 mi) at 100m (328 ft) altitude and had about 60% battery remaining before signal started to get a bit choppy at which point I activated RTH on the phone screen.
I fumbled for a few minutes to get gloves on while waiting for RTH. When I picked up the controller and looked at the display it had only come back about 100m, but had flown up over 350m (1200+ ft)! Pretty wild (and dangerous!) considering I set RTH altitude to 100m, one of the first things I adjusted as per instructions. At this point I took over control to bring it back towards me (and back down to Earth), but that only lasted about a minute and then my phone shut off because I had been outside for a while and I guess the cold had cause a quick battery drop. I pressed RTH on the controller and hoped that either that or eventually low battery would bring it back home, but it never came back. I also got the app up and running within a few minutes, which should have been fast enough that the drone would have still had some juice had it been hovering but I was never able to reestablish a connection. Bummer .
I should mention that a couple days before I had taken it out for a test run and had activated RTH from about 1km away and the drone hovered without moving for about a minute and a half, at which point I got annoyed with the beeping and brought it back manually.
Does anyone have an idea what the issue may have been here? Other than RTH altitude and camera settings every other setting was default. The weather was a bit below freezing between -5 and -7°C, within specs (14° to 104° F / -10° to 40° C), maybe pushing the lower end but the drone had been inside up until a few minutes before flying. There was a slight breeze that day, but not enough to get knocked around or have any noticeable resistance while flying. Everything seemed normal as far as I could tell other than RTH which gave me issues for the second time in as many attempts. Any insight would be much appreciated.
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