I have tried landing the drone automatically over and over on one of the standard circular bright orange Honga landing pads. Most of the time it does great. But about 1 out of 4 or 5 tries, it lands off the pad, usually about 3 to 15 feet. Today, it landed spot on 4 times and once about 4 feet away. Yesterday, in an entirely different area, it landed on the pad 3 times but once tried to land on top of my pool cage 30 ft away.
Each session I make sure to update the home spot, and get confirmation; then I read somewhere that it helps to ascend vertically 7 meters and hesitate for a few seconds to allow the unit to survey the helipad surroundings. So I do that each flight. The smart controller is about 10 ft from the pad each time, no magnetic interference, no signal or GPS problems, etc. I have the latest updates; I use the RTH feature and have it start about 100 ft altitude, to avoid any trees, etc.
I emailed DJI tech support and in a prompt reply they said don't use RTH to home point, use RTH to controller (pilot). Which means, land manually every flight. I can easily do that by using RTH to controller or by cancelling RTH when it gets close, but this defeats the whole purpose of the precision landing feature, which is a very nice feature that I would like to use.
Why would it get it right most of the time and then be way off on another flight, a few minutes later, same day, same location, same conditions??
Each session I make sure to update the home spot, and get confirmation; then I read somewhere that it helps to ascend vertically 7 meters and hesitate for a few seconds to allow the unit to survey the helipad surroundings. So I do that each flight. The smart controller is about 10 ft from the pad each time, no magnetic interference, no signal or GPS problems, etc. I have the latest updates; I use the RTH feature and have it start about 100 ft altitude, to avoid any trees, etc.
I emailed DJI tech support and in a prompt reply they said don't use RTH to home point, use RTH to controller (pilot). Which means, land manually every flight. I can easily do that by using RTH to controller or by cancelling RTH when it gets close, but this defeats the whole purpose of the precision landing feature, which is a very nice feature that I would like to use.
Why would it get it right most of the time and then be way off on another flight, a few minutes later, same day, same location, same conditions??