After a relevant number of flights with the MP it's clear for me that there is an hardware/design issue with the sensors. Sometimes the front ones are detecting obsacles when flying towards direct sunlight, and the MP just hover midair until yawed elsewhere, and sometimes the vps shows a false reading and the MP starts landing when you are full left stick down to reduce your altitude. So unless I am flying the MP in a mission where all the sensors can be definitely useful, I am now used to decide before each takeoff if it's safer to disable them. What happens if the MP detects an obstacle (which is not there) while flying back to you in an emergency RTH with no RC control, and stucks above a lake watching a mirable sunset? I don't wanna be the first one to give an answer to this question.
Just make sure to set RTH height with a good margin above anything around you. Note that there have been reported errors in altitude for the Mavic where it goes up or down, so I've been setting my RTH to the max legal height for Hong Kong of 92M...
Yes, either turn off the OA sensors or flip it into sport mode as it will disable the sensors for you...
What about the case where RTH is really necessary, for example after I've lost signal. Can the Mavic figure it out, or will it just sit there staring at the sun until its battery goes down? Seems to me it's the second one, which means that early or late in the day, OA should be disabled for RTH.
in this situation, yes, turning of OA would allow you to perform an RTH without the sun causing any issues....just ensure you have a good RTH altitude set to clear any possible obstacle in the flight path.
Mate so if they are all disabled. How do you land?
if the vps is off, it's like fully manual landing - it drops like a rock with very little touch...but not a big deal- you just need to try it on a safe surface.....
