Mavic refuses to rise from base of waterfall.
Why?
Spent money on a driver and a guide and trekked through thick, humid jungle to get to a waterfall and the Mavic refused to rise. It did this at three separate waterfalls, so it was not just one spot. I moved it many times, back, forwards, to the sides but it was only a small area I had to work with. It was continually bouncing between 0 and a few satellite connections. Above the canopy it had no problems and took it quite high after it cleared the canopy.
After many, many repeated attempts, it did rise and I recorded its decent to give an indication as to how high and how small the gap in the canopy was.
Why did it not just chose any mode it could and just rise till it could communicate with multiple satellites?
There must be something I could have done. Any ideas please? Imagine spending a whole day and expense and your Mavic just refuses to rise!
I am an old bugger and expect it of myself but this Mavic is new.
Not that I think it would have made much difference but I did reboot everything and tried both the DJI app and Litchi. I don’t want this to me or other folk again.
Can someone tell me why and how to avoid it in the future? Very frustrating for people new to flying.
John
Why?
Spent money on a driver and a guide and trekked through thick, humid jungle to get to a waterfall and the Mavic refused to rise. It did this at three separate waterfalls, so it was not just one spot. I moved it many times, back, forwards, to the sides but it was only a small area I had to work with. It was continually bouncing between 0 and a few satellite connections. Above the canopy it had no problems and took it quite high after it cleared the canopy.
After many, many repeated attempts, it did rise and I recorded its decent to give an indication as to how high and how small the gap in the canopy was.
Why did it not just chose any mode it could and just rise till it could communicate with multiple satellites?
There must be something I could have done. Any ideas please? Imagine spending a whole day and expense and your Mavic just refuses to rise!
I am an old bugger and expect it of myself but this Mavic is new.
Not that I think it would have made much difference but I did reboot everything and tried both the DJI app and Litchi. I don’t want this to me or other folk again.
Can someone tell me why and how to avoid it in the future? Very frustrating for people new to flying.
John