RTH malfunctions

Doytdoyt · Mar 31, 2018

After insuring that home point is set properly, RTH is activated at end of flight and my Mavic Pro wants to land wherever it is. Fortunately it has always been in line of sight every time this has occurred, cause I really have to fight it to keep it from landing where it is. Ideas?

joejaxvic123 · Mar 31, 2018

Do you have it set to land in the app?

Doytdoyt · Apr 1, 2018

joejaxvic123 said:
Do you have it set to land in the app?

Not sure what you mean.

MavicCF · Apr 1, 2018

Doytdoyt said:
Not sure what you mean.

I think @joejaxvic123 was referring to this setting.

Is yours set to land?

ac0j · Apr 1, 2018

He is pushing the RTH button, I dont think this setting changes what happens with the button push, does it?

MavicCF · Apr 1, 2018

ac0j said:
He is pushing the RTH button, I dont think this setting changes what happens with the button push, does it?

Hadn't thought about that but your probably right.

sar104 · Apr 1, 2018

Doytdoyt said:
After insuring that home point is set properly, RTH is activated at end of flight and my Mavic Pro wants to land wherever it is. Fortunately it has always been in line of sight every time this has occurred, cause I really have to fight it to keep it from landing where it is. Ideas?

How, exactly, are you activating RTH?

joejaxvic123 · Apr 1, 2018

I'm sorry. I'm a bit confused. I was thinking signal loss where you can set return, hover or land.

ac0j · Apr 1, 2018

Sar noticed that the OP never actually said how the RTH is being activated....
So there is a chance that "at the end of the flight" means he is just shutting off the remote, and waiting for the mavic to come home.

sar104 · Apr 1, 2018

ac0j said:
Sar noticed that the OP never actually said how the RTH is being activated....
So there is a chance that "at the end of the flight" means he is just shutting off the remote, and waiting for the mavic to come home.

More particularly, a number of people have ended up pushing the wrong button on the app - the autoland button rather than the RTH button.

Doytdoyt · Apr 1, 2018

sar104 said:
How, exactly, are you activating RTH?

On video screen left not r/c button.

sar104 · Apr 1, 2018

Doytdoyt said:
On video screen left not r/c button.

And you are sure that you did not mistakenly hit the autoland icon which is directly above the RTH icon?

laurens23 · Apr 2, 2018

Because the OP is mentioning he is in VLOS when activation RTH I will just add this form the manual: The drone will just land if RTH is activated within 5m of the homepoint, or 10m if the vision system is deactivated. (RTH safety Notices 3 and 4 from page 16 of the manual)

also it will autoland when at critical battery level, regardless where it is, which could be why the OP mentioned he is "fighting" the drone.

Simmo · Apr 2, 2018

Or, when he says it was always within los, ....edit, Laurens beat me to it!

Ray&Paula · May 31, 2018

MavicCF said:
I think @joejaxvic123 was referring to this setting.View attachment 34861
Is yours set to land?

I just received my Mavic Air in which I have a question; Once you set one of the three options, does that option become the default for all flights? Thanks, Ray

tcope · May 31, 2018

Ray&Paula said:
I just received my Mavic Air in which I have a question; Once you set one of the three options, does that option become the default for all flights? Thanks, Ray

Yes. It's stored in he Mavic itself (because RTH is usually activated when the controller is disconnected from the Mavic).

Ray&Paula · May 31, 2018

tcope said:
Yes. It's stored in he Mavic itself (because RTH is usually activated when the controller is disconnected from the Mavic).

That make sense. Thanks for the quick answer! Have a great day, Ray Thumbswayup

Simmo · May 31, 2018

However!!!! May I please make a suggestion??? If a firm/software change has been made, it is very advisable before TO, to check that all your settings are correct....

Huddy · May 31, 2018

Doytdoyt said:
After insuring that home point is set properly, RTH is activated at end of flight and my Mavic Pro wants to land wherever it is. Fortunately it has always been in line of sight every time this has occurred, cause I really have to fight it to keep it from landing where it is. Ideas?

I think earlier posters have identified the problem. If that’s not the case, then I was going to say, although you say you ensured the home point was set before (or shortly after) taking off, did you notice where the home point was after it tried to land? Had it changed?