Proximity flying through forest

Lapeer20m · Dec 25, 2017

took a chilly flight through the forest and purposely flew really close to trees. Mavic was a little crazy because the tree cover created weak gps signal.

WillyWonka · Dec 25, 2017

Nice video and yes, you are asking for trouble

Prop guards?

Lapeer20m · Dec 25, 2017

WillyWonka said:
Nice video and yes, you are asking for trouble Prop guards?

Cages.

WillyWonka · Dec 25, 2017

That will work!

Ray Dunakin · Dec 25, 2017

Very cool! Great flying, and the images look terrific. What camera settings did you use?

lrsn · Dec 25, 2017

You really baby your Mavic. Was all the obstacle avoidance by the Mavic or were helping it?

Qoncussion · Dec 25, 2017

lrsn said:
You really baby your Mavic. Was all the obstacle avoidance by the Mavic or were helping it?

OA won't fly the craft. It will only slam on the brakes

Lapeer20m · Dec 25, 2017

lrsn said:
You really baby your Mavic. Was all the obstacle avoidance by the Mavic or were helping it?

Oa was off. It makes it too difficult or impossible to fly this close to things when enabled especially since mavic was literally crashing into things.

Lapeer20m · Dec 25, 2017

Ray Dunakin said:
Very cool! Great flying, and the images look terrific. What camera settings did you use?

No idea. Whatever random
Camera settings happened to be at the time. No filters. This footage was also all taken from the iPad as I did not have an sd card in the craft.

BerndM · Dec 25, 2017

I may be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure a weak GPS signal has no effect on the RC signal controlling your Mavic.

Lapeer20m · Dec 25, 2017

I agree that gps has no bearing on the connection between the controller and aircraft, but poor or intermittent gps does have an affect on the positioning of mavic and sometimes the aircraft ignores input from the rc while it is switching between vision and gps mode.

There are a couple of times in the video mavics altitude changes drastically without any input from the left stick.