Hello,
I am from Canberra and I was on a holiday to Kangaroo Island, Australia. I prepared a drone to fly with fully charged battery in open area. In around 2 meters of height it alarmed as high wind in app so I landed it down and was in search of suitable location to fly. I found a good location without wind in ground home-location so I flew the aircraft but after 2 minutes of fly I didn't see an aircraft so I pressed the manual RTH button though there was no alarm on app. I was waiting for its return but it never came back.
As I am a normal drone pilot so I contacted to DJI and informed about the situation. I sent them all files on their request. They came to conclusion as drone was with 14% of battery and 1.5Km far from the location where I was flying and because of wind drone was pushed away further-down of 0.5Km and the battery was flat while drone was over the sea.
Interesting is there is no flight record from the home point to the 1.5Km distance and DJI is only focusing on pilot fault to fly in windy condition with analyzing on last record, which I haven't seen.
But my query to them is: I lost drone because of its malfunction 1) I didn't see wind alarm on app, 2) After manual RTH pressed, I didn't see any alarm on the app screen.
If I had seen that the aircraft was struggling to RTH because of opposite wind then I wouldn't rely on RTH but I would make manual landing.
I thought it would be good to share this info which was of last month and I'm happy for further discussion on it.
Cheers
Prad
I am from Canberra and I was on a holiday to Kangaroo Island, Australia. I prepared a drone to fly with fully charged battery in open area. In around 2 meters of height it alarmed as high wind in app so I landed it down and was in search of suitable location to fly. I found a good location without wind in ground home-location so I flew the aircraft but after 2 minutes of fly I didn't see an aircraft so I pressed the manual RTH button though there was no alarm on app. I was waiting for its return but it never came back.
As I am a normal drone pilot so I contacted to DJI and informed about the situation. I sent them all files on their request. They came to conclusion as drone was with 14% of battery and 1.5Km far from the location where I was flying and because of wind drone was pushed away further-down of 0.5Km and the battery was flat while drone was over the sea.
Interesting is there is no flight record from the home point to the 1.5Km distance and DJI is only focusing on pilot fault to fly in windy condition with analyzing on last record, which I haven't seen.
But my query to them is: I lost drone because of its malfunction 1) I didn't see wind alarm on app, 2) After manual RTH pressed, I didn't see any alarm on the app screen.
If I had seen that the aircraft was struggling to RTH because of opposite wind then I wouldn't rely on RTH but I would make manual landing.
I thought it would be good to share this info which was of last month and I'm happy for further discussion on it.
Cheers
Prad