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Hi, I hope someone can help. My flight involved a short session where I had the drone (Mavic 2Pro) follow me. I had taken off and as usual the drone updated home point and gave the all clear to fly. I travelled about 150 meters and did some video footage and also some still photography. I was flying only about 3 or 4 meters away from myself when a warning appeared saying low battery please return to home (set to 21 percent)
As I was 150 meters away from the take off point I decided to land at my current location. I flew close and selected what I deemed to be a suitable landing spot and another warning came up saying there was only enough battery left to RTH and return immediately (something like that anyway). I was concerned because the battery was still showing 18 Percent and I thought this should have been plenty to go up 30 meters (RTH height I set) and travel the 150/160 meters home so I began to worry that the home point was in error. I tried to land by holding the right stick fully down (I fly mode 1) but the drone refused to come down and when I let go of the stick it started to rise. By this time the battery level was dropping rapidly (much faster than I thought it should ) so I thought I would hand catch it and force a landing. I held the stick back and as usual the drone reacted to my hand being in the way and normally it will come back down when you continue to force the landing. This time it didn't. Every time I tried to grab it , it went UP. In desperation I had to get as close as I could then launched myself at it and grabbed it. With the stick still fully back the drone did not throttle down. I turned it on its side and it then shut off.
I am happy to accept the blame for this , all I want to do is find out where I went wrong so it doesn't happen again.
I have checked the battery and it comes up ok. I checked the home point and it is correct. I have hand caught the drone previously without any problems. I feel that the battery level decreased very quickly at the end and I'm not sure why.
I have attached the flight log and hope someone will be able to help,
Thanks.
As I was 150 meters away from the take off point I decided to land at my current location. I flew close and selected what I deemed to be a suitable landing spot and another warning came up saying there was only enough battery left to RTH and return immediately (something like that anyway). I was concerned because the battery was still showing 18 Percent and I thought this should have been plenty to go up 30 meters (RTH height I set) and travel the 150/160 meters home so I began to worry that the home point was in error. I tried to land by holding the right stick fully down (I fly mode 1) but the drone refused to come down and when I let go of the stick it started to rise. By this time the battery level was dropping rapidly (much faster than I thought it should ) so I thought I would hand catch it and force a landing. I held the stick back and as usual the drone reacted to my hand being in the way and normally it will come back down when you continue to force the landing. This time it didn't. Every time I tried to grab it , it went UP. In desperation I had to get as close as I could then launched myself at it and grabbed it. With the stick still fully back the drone did not throttle down. I turned it on its side and it then shut off.
I am happy to accept the blame for this , all I want to do is find out where I went wrong so it doesn't happen again.
I have checked the battery and it comes up ok. I checked the home point and it is correct. I have hand caught the drone previously without any problems. I feel that the battery level decreased very quickly at the end and I'm not sure why.
I have attached the flight log and hope someone will be able to help,
Thanks.