Strange message at beginning of short flight

[DroneJI]

I was over a friends house and wanted to show off my MPP they are at a lower elevation than where I live about 900’ lower when I first sent it up I got a message that I was above the 400’ limit? And it was real slow to climb! This lasted about 45 seconds then the message disappeared and it flew normally! Could this have been a GPS glitch? And it thought it was up much higher? I have a 2017 IPad so it’s not the Mobile device being slow! And everything is upto date! I have sent it up at least 2 dozen times since I owned it and never had this happen!

 

[ac0j]

My guess would be that you didnt wait to get a good satellite lock before you took off. This could bite you in the *** if you do it too often. It wont set RTH correctly.
Make sure you have 10 or more sats in view of the mavic before you take off.

 

[MichiganMavic]

Always wait to hear “Home point set...” [emoji6]

 

[msinger]

Is there anything interesting in the flight log?

 

[DroneJI]

It was raining on and off for 2 days so I may have rushed it! To get it up before it started raining again.! I didn’t fly it far just up about 15’ and around the field no more than 50’ from me, it was probably the safest place I have to fly it over 200 ac of land around the property, and it did start raining as soon as the message disappeared so it came right down asap.

 

[locoman]

Sounds like it needed to get it's new bearings, i.e. GPS position. If you don't wait until you get a good GPS lock, or don't reset you home point, it will remember the last place you took off and landed from.

Happened to me once when I was flying at a location different from were I usually fly. I was a a family 5K run event, which I was going to film, being rushed, kind of showing off my new toy to everyone, not doing my due diligence. I can't remember setting the new home point. So when I hit the RTH button, My MP took off, like a bat out of hell, for my "home", which was 5 miles away from where I was currently standing at the time. Lucky I reacted fast enough to cancel the RTH action before it just flew off to never, never land, and manually was able to flew it back to me. the next time I took off, I made sure I checked the precision RTH bottom before taking off.

So, word to the wise, never be in a rush, do your preflight check list, pretend you are in the cockpit, getting ready to takeoff in a real airplane. With your life on the line, it makes you be more cautious.

 

[DroneJI]

Sounds like it needed to get it's new bearings, i.e. GPS position. If you don't wait until you get a good GPS lock, or don't reset you home point, it will remember the last place you took off and landed from.

Happened to me once when I was flying at a location different from were I usually fly. I was a a family 5K run event, which I was going to film, being rushed, kind of showing off my new toy to everyone, not doing my due diligence. I can't remember setting the new home point. So when I hit the RTH button, My MP took off, like a bat out of ****, for my "home", which was 5 miles away from where I was currently standing at the time. Lucky I reacted fast enough to cancel the RTH action before it just flew off to never, never land, and manually was able to flew it back to me. the next time I took off, I made sure I checked the precision RTH bottom before taking off.

So, word to the wise, never be in a rush, do your preflight check list, pretend you are in the cockpit, getting ready to takeoff in a real airplane. With your life on the line, it makes you be more cautious.

True the rain was a distraction I should not have let it rush me, now that I think about it the App warns the use about almost everything else it should throw a warning “ Not Ready To Fly” or something to that effect! I know most warnings can be ignored and bypassed there should be one for situations like this! But I don’t think Dji cares as much about Pilot error and the loss of a drone (it sells more drones) than something they can be sued or fined for! Like letting it go over 400’ without any warnings, but lesson learned, I still didn’t pull the brief footage from the Mavic it’s been raining still even since the incident and it’s locked up in the back of my SUV I will get to it one day when this weather breaks, I feel like I’m in a rain forest lately.

 

[DroneJI]

I also never thought about it going to my actual home if something went wrong I live over 20 miles from where this event happened it probably would have made it over a Walmart and ran out of juice. Even with a good tail wind I doubt it could have made it more than 1/4 the way back! At least the 3 big lakes around me were not in the path home. I think this may be how a lot of people loose there drones and blame it on the Bird or App when it was just doing what it was designed to do “go home”

 

[ac0j]

True the rain was a distraction I should not have let it rush me, now that I think about it the App warns the use about almost everything else it should throw a warning “ Not Ready To Fly” or something to that effect! I know most warnings can be ignored and bypassed there should be one for situations like this! But I don’t think Dji cares as much about Pilot error and the loss of a drone (it sells more drones) than something they can be sued or fined for! Like letting it go over 400’ without any warnings, but lesson learned, I still didn’t pull the brief footage from the Mavic it’s been raining still even since the incident and it’s locked up in the back of my SUV I will get to it one day when this weather breaks, I feel like I’m in a rain forest lately.

The app DOES tell you “ready to fly” when it’s ready

 

[DroneJI]

The app DOES tell you “ready to fly” when it’s ready

I know that but a warning “not ready to fly” was what I meant, when setting up I don’t always remember if it said that yet, this is the first time I rushed and usually the time I spent setting up everything else has finished doing its thing, maybe a red border around the screen to say Hey I’m not done booting up and connecting,