RTH due to low battery does not climb first?

[Chirp]

I had my first Return To Home due to low battery and I was surprised that it did not climb first.

It just went straight to home and luckily did not hit the peak of a roof that was about 2 feet under it.

Is that the way it is? Just heads straight home?

Thanks!!!

 

[msinger]

How far away was your Mavic from the home point when it started returning home?

 

[Mossiback]

How far away was your Mavic from the home point when it started returning home?

And what was your RTH altitude set to?

 

[Chirp]

How far away was your Mavic from the home point when it started returning home?

About 20 Feet...

 

[Chirp]

And what was your RTH altitude set to?

30M

 

[msinger]

Ah, that makes sense then. Check out these special cases from the "Return-to-Home" section of the Mavic manual:

 

[Chirp]

Ah, that makes sense then. Check out these special cases from the "Return-to-Home" section of the Mavic manual:

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That's it. It's the second one.
I was lucky because it could have flown straight into the peak of the roof because the MP was only a couple feet from it, no time for me to correct it manually. Hopefully the sensors would have stopped it. Thanks!

 

[tracer bullet]

Yep, as mentioned, RTH only climbs if over a certain distance away.

Take this is a reminder to read the entire manual twice before you fly, and maybe again a time or two after that as you get more experience. Especially in regards to RTH, if you spend some time reading posts here you'll find that misunderstanding RTH is a huge, possibly the #1 reason people have crashes. Even more often than simply flying into something themselves, it's them not understanding what the drone does on auto-pilot.

 

[Xtreme Drone Pilot]

(in MasterCard commercial voice)

Broken prop. 10 dollars.
Broken gimbal. 400 dollars.
Broken Mavic. 1000 dollars.

Reading The F Manual and realizing that all of the above can be easily avoided... PRICELESS

 

[4wd]

You do have the opportunity to over-ride for a while.
It's best to resist that temptation to do one more move until the battery warnings start though.
The last few percentage points are only an estimate and when it's too low it's going down.

 

[Camalhao]

Ah, that makes sense then. Check out these special cases from the "Return-to-Home" section of the Mavic manual:

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Hello,
Is this info up to date? (I'm asking because it was posted one year ago)
Is it valid for the Mavic Air too?

Thank you

 

[msinger]

Is this info up to date?

Yes. It's straight from the Mavic manual. You can reference it in the future if you want to check for updates.