I am new to the Mavic 4 Pro, Fly app and PC Pro2 having flown it now for only couple of months. I am coming from 6 years of flying either a Mavic Pro, Mavic 2 Pro (5 years) and Phantom 4.
I like to find flying situations where I can fly up through low clouds, fog etc and get above them to then shoot the scene. In past flights with other drones, and the Go 4 app, I can just drop back down through the clouds and land. I prefer to do this with the gimbal pointed straight down.
Today after a good flight, I attempted to land the Mavic 4, and all went well until I hit the clouds (Gimbal was pointed straight down). As soon as I hit the clouds, I saw the drone shadow that the fly app puts on the screen as you get low to the ground. And immediately after that I received a message the drone was starting to land. Now it was still over 100 feet in the air, and I assumed that since the message gave me a 3 foot warning with the shadow of the drone (what the fly app puts on the screen as you get close to landing) the drone would try to land in the next 3 feet and shut off the props, even though the app showed I was still 100 feet off the ground.
I immediately cancelled this auto landing, went up out of the clouds and tried again, same thing. Note, I had already turned off obstacle avoidance for this flight.
The only way I could get the drone, not to start an auto landing 100 feet above the ground was to return the gimbal to the horizon, and then start the landing. Now I was able to drop through the clouds and when I saw the ground, return the gimbal to straight down, and complete the landing.
I have never had this issue with earlier Mavic Pro, or Mavic 2 Pro and the Go app.
I was getting down to 20 percent of remaining battery, so I did panic a bit as I thought at first there was no way I could get the drone to land. I always do a manual landing and what was the most startling about this was as soon as I hit the fog, the drone started the auto landing process thinking it was now 3 feet above the ground. (looking straight down). Not sure why having the gimbal out to the horizon made a difference, but that was the only way I was able to get around the forced landing at 100 feet.
Any thoughts on this to avoid it in the future would be appreciated.
I am running the latest firmware both drone and controller.
Paul C
I like to find flying situations where I can fly up through low clouds, fog etc and get above them to then shoot the scene. In past flights with other drones, and the Go 4 app, I can just drop back down through the clouds and land. I prefer to do this with the gimbal pointed straight down.
Today after a good flight, I attempted to land the Mavic 4, and all went well until I hit the clouds (Gimbal was pointed straight down). As soon as I hit the clouds, I saw the drone shadow that the fly app puts on the screen as you get low to the ground. And immediately after that I received a message the drone was starting to land. Now it was still over 100 feet in the air, and I assumed that since the message gave me a 3 foot warning with the shadow of the drone (what the fly app puts on the screen as you get close to landing) the drone would try to land in the next 3 feet and shut off the props, even though the app showed I was still 100 feet off the ground.
I immediately cancelled this auto landing, went up out of the clouds and tried again, same thing. Note, I had already turned off obstacle avoidance for this flight.
The only way I could get the drone, not to start an auto landing 100 feet above the ground was to return the gimbal to the horizon, and then start the landing. Now I was able to drop through the clouds and when I saw the ground, return the gimbal to straight down, and complete the landing.
I have never had this issue with earlier Mavic Pro, or Mavic 2 Pro and the Go app.
I was getting down to 20 percent of remaining battery, so I did panic a bit as I thought at first there was no way I could get the drone to land. I always do a manual landing and what was the most startling about this was as soon as I hit the fog, the drone started the auto landing process thinking it was now 3 feet above the ground. (looking straight down). Not sure why having the gimbal out to the horizon made a difference, but that was the only way I was able to get around the forced landing at 100 feet.
Any thoughts on this to avoid it in the future would be appreciated.
I am running the latest firmware both drone and controller.
Paul C
