Mavic RC height display not going past 1000' feet

Arkarian · Dec 7, 2017

PDXteriors said:
Those are guidelines, not laws.

So you are saying, by law I don't even have to call the airport that I'm flying inside the 5 mile limit. Because it's not a law, just a guideline.

But you can bet if I hit an aircraft or it hits my Mavic, I'm going to be in deep **** if I get caught. Probably even labeled a terrorist.

As a community I think we also need to remember, if we don't follow guidelines and fly responsibly, someone will write a law and we won't be able to fly anywhere.

Xtreme Drone Pilot · Dec 7, 2017

Arkarian said:
But you can bet if I hit an aircraft or it hits my Mavic, I'm going to be in deep **** if I get caught. Probably even labeled a terrorist.

A pidiot can hit an aircraft even below 400 feet. Example: a police helicopter is flying below 400' above houses to locate a suspect. A pidiot launches Mavic to take a footage of the scene. BOOM.

A responsible mountain or desert flyer can be flying 4000 feet up and cause absolutely no trouble as there's no, zero, nada traffic for tens of miles around.

wytnyt · Dec 7, 2017

HWCM said:
Maybe he lives in the mountains like I do. If i take off in my back yard, I have to go over 800 feet up to go any distance because I have a mountain or large hill to either side of me, I am actually less than 100 feet above the trees. But my altitude shows 800-900 feet.
Calm down with the whining.

agreed

Arkarian · Dec 7, 2017

Not arguing the mountain thing. Totally understand that you are going up the mountain and pretty much maintaining the same distance from the ground. But you also have to think if it suddenly kicks in return to home, is it going to fly strait back to me keeping the altitude at the return to home altitude or be 1000+ feet above me?

I can also have my Mavic Up flying around and an Aircare helicopter comes screaming over the horizon. If I'm 400 or below and maintain visual, I can clearly see my UAV and react. If I'm 1000 feet up and can't clearly see it or so far away I can barely see it, it might be harder to get it out of the way.

Xtreme Drone Pilot · Dec 7, 2017

Arkarian said:
But you also have to think if it suddenly kicks in return to home, is it going to fly strait back to me keeping the altitude at the return to home altitude or be 1000+ feet above me?

Sorry, I've never flown in any place where flying at ANY altitude would be ever a problem (400km could be an issue though, since during the day I can't see the ISS

). But then again, here in the desert/mountain US West, we have huge expanses of empty land and mountains. Lots of middle-of-nowhere's here. Limiting myself to 500m ATOP would be totally retarded because this is exactly what I paid $2K+ (FMC, Goggles, and what looks like thousands of various accessories for them) for and why I now eat ramen noodles for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Lon Denard · Dec 9, 2017

Aran said:
[citation needed]

Law needed... There has to be a law to get a citation.

Lon Denard · Dec 9, 2017

I'm late to the party but I was wondering... Ugh this is a stupid question! Oh well, when you are climbing and reach the limit. What if you landed and took off again? Would it start over?

wytnyt · Dec 9, 2017

Lon Denard said:
I'm late to the party but I was wondering... Ugh this is a stupid question! Oh well, when you are climbing and reach the limit. What if you landed and took off again? Would it start over?

id say no since new landing isnt the takeoff landing,unless mp set it as so.

Xtreme Drone Pilot · Dec 9, 2017

Lon Denard said:
I'm late to the party but I was wondering... Ugh this is a stupid question! Oh well, when you are climbing and reach the limit. What if you landed and took off again? Would it start over?

Yes.

wytnyt · Dec 9, 2017

Xtreme Drone Pilot said:
Yes.

wouldnt it need to set it as ''home?''

Lon Denard · Dec 9, 2017

Xtreme Drone Pilot said:
Yes.

Ah, I'm not proposing that as a solution. I was just curious. Thank you for answering.

Last one, what if you set dynamic home point and flew low enough for the bottom sensors to register? Would that help?

Xtreme Drone Pilot · Dec 9, 2017

Lon Denard said:
Ah, I'm not proposing that as a solution. I was just curious. Thank you for answering.

Last one, what if you set dynamic home point and flew low enough for the bottom sensors to register? Would that help?

No, the altitude won't reset to 0 unless you takeoff again.

gnirtS · Dec 9, 2017

1000ft max RC display is a software bug thats been present for as long as i can remember, certainly over a year. In metric i think it displays correctly.

Xtreme Drone Pilot · Dec 9, 2017

gnirtS said:
1000ft max RC display is a software bug thats been present for as long as i can remember, certainly over a year. In metric i think it displays correctly.

Same in metric, 1000m max.

YoungBill · Dec 9, 2017

Xtreme Drone Pilot said:
Same in metric, 1000m max.

YAFJOAH

Lon Denard · Dec 9, 2017

Xtreme Drone Pilot said:
No, the altitude won't reset to 0 unless you takeoff again.

Oh well...

DJI Ferrari · Jan 19, 2019

JMF said:
When I fly higher than 1000 feet the RC never displays anything higher then 1000, the DJI Go app shows the correct height though ?

Is this normal or is there a setting ?

If you are in the usa and flying 1000 feet, you are braking the law as it is actually very illegal because at 1000 feet is where actual aircraft fly, helicopters, planes (PROP) and so on, stay below 400, there's no need to fly at 1000 feet, because if something happens, dji checks flight logs and if they see you went 1000 feet, it might not be good.

JDawg · Jan 19, 2019

DJI Ferrari said:
If you are in the usa and flying 1000 feet, you are braking the law as it is actually very illegal because at 1000 feet is where actual aircraft fly, helicopters, planes (PROP) and so on, stay below 400, there's no need to fly at 1000 feet, because if something happens, dji checks flight logs and if they see you went 1000 feet, it might not be good.

Not true.

Aran · Jan 20, 2019

DJI Ferrari said:
If you are in the usa and flying 1000 feet, you are braking the law as it is actually very illegal because at 1000 feet is where actual aircraft fly, helicopters, planes (PROP) and so on, stay below 400, there's no need to fly at 1000 feet, because if something happens, dji checks flight logs and if they see you went 1000 feet, it might not be good.

Why did you bump a post from 2017 in 2019 just to reiterate a point that was wrong in 2017?