Sport or Position setting on Zoom.

[Stephen Cowley]

Planning on a 2 mile each way and 3,000 foot climb. Am I better off in Sport or Position in terms of battery range?

 

[Thomas B]

Planning on a 2 mile each way and 3,000 foot climb. Am I better off in Sport or Position in terms of battery range?

Welcome to the forum from the deserts of Arizona! Enjoy.

You’ll have post the equipment/software used to fly your Zoom in order get a good answer to your question.

 

[Stephen Cowley]

?? New here. Standard Mavic Zoom. New machine updated firmware. Tks

 

[Thomas B]

?? New here. Standard Mavic Zoom. New machine updated firmware. Tks

You’ll not be able to reach 2000’ AGL w/o hacking at least some of your equipment.

 

[Stephen Cowley]

Seems like I saw the upper limit on the controller settings now that you mention it. Guess I'll have to drive half way up the mountain. I'm not going to fiddle with the equipment. tks
Still like to know if Sport mode is more costly in terms of long runs. With cars, boats, planes speed costs in terms of range.

 

[Thomas B]

Seems like I saw the upper limit on the controller settings now that you mention it. Guess I'll have to drive half way up the mountain. I'm not going to fiddle with the equipment. tks
Still like to know if Sport mode is more costly in terms of long runs. With cars, boats, planes speed costs in terms of range.

If you can find a place at distance to land you may be able to reset the altimeter.,, just don’t lose VLOS. Used this trick when flying up mountain sides.

 

[sonof40]

If you can find a place at distance to land you may be able to reset the altimeter.,, just don’t lose VLOS. Used this trick when flying up mountain sides.

What do you mean by "at distance to land"?

 

[Thomas B]

What do you mean by "at distance to land"?

Fly out and up. Land higher than original TO, landand the TO again. Altitude resets to zero.

 

[sonof40]

Fly out and up. Land higher than original TO, landand the TO again. Altitude resets to zero.

Once you've landed at altitude, do you need to shut down or will the reset be automatic once you've landed?

 

[Thomas B]

Once you've landed at altitude, do you need to shut down or will the reset be automatic once you've landed?

Don’t **** down. Just land in VLOS, wait 15-20 seconds, the To again. The new To spot will be a new zero AGL.

 

[sonof40]

Don’t **** down. Just land in VLOS, wait 15-20 seconds, the To again. The new To spot will be a new zero AGL.

Got it. And DON'T reset the home point, I assume.

 

[Thomas B]

Got it. And DON'T reset the home point, I assume.

Yes it resets the homepoint automatically. So you have to fly it back to you.

 

[sonof40]

Yes it resets the homepoint automatically. So you have to fly it back to you.

But you can reset it to the controller location vs the take-off point right?

 

[Thomas B]

But you can reset it to the controller location vs the take-off point right?

Yes

 

[sonof40]

Yes

Thanks for the tips.
It will interesting to see what happens when/if the landing goes into negative numbers.