RTH speed

mavic53 · Jan 4, 2018

Very stupidly I attempted to fly in a very strong wind. 40 mph gusting. This is the very end of the flight . As usual the Mavic makes everything look quite calm. Filming the railway line below and the Mavic is going further away (wind is roughly from behind me). I am pulling the right stick right back but Drone only slows does not come backwards. In desperation I pressed RTH, as you see Drone turns and comes back and descends. I can only assume that RTH opens up Sport mode in order to give the Mavic every last bit of power to get it to return home against the wind.

ErikDF · Jan 5, 2018

RTH does not activate Sports mode. It has to be activated by the pilot. If you were in Tripod mode and pressed RTH, then you would see a big difference in speed. ”Windy” is a nice app for weather forecast in particular wind speed. You can set it to show wind at ground level or at 100 m which could be good to know before you fly

mavic53 · Jan 5, 2018

ErikDF said:
RTH does not activate Sports mode. It has to be activated by the pilot. If you were in Tripod mode and pressed RTH, then you would see a big difference in speed. ”Windy” is a nice app for weather forecast in particular wind speed. You can set it to show wind at ground level or at 100 m which could be good to know before you fly

Thanks in that case I will experiment with sport mode more as it might help in a similar case. Possibly the wind dropped a bit, it was gusting, which enabled the RTH to work. Will look for the app you suggest although why I never cottoned on that as the trees were bending over that it was too windy I will never know.