Top Speed - 9mph?

neshstyle · May 15, 2017

Hi Guys, hows it going today?

I am new here to the forum, I’ve been a mavic owner for a little over 2 weeks and I absolutely love love it!

however I have a quick question, I apologize in advanced if this has been asked before.

The switch on my mavic is set to “RC” – however I cant seem to get past 9mph / 14km/h flight speeds.

Am I missing something inside the software or anywhere?

I know a lot of people get fast speeds – but I have never been able to break 9 mph.

Thanks in advanced for the help,

Safe flying!

Cheers

dslater · May 15, 2017

bet you still have it set to beginner mode?

neshstyle · May 15, 2017

hmm, I'm pretty sure I turned that off - but i will check again!!

neshstyle · May 15, 2017

Actually this cant be the case, since I flew it for about 1400 metres the other day, and still top speed was only 9mph

Brunovic · May 15, 2017

Switch to sportmode...mabe helps

dslater · May 15, 2017

Are you sure you arent reading 9 m/s as 9 miles per hour? 9 metres per second is 20Mph.

diabox · May 15, 2017

neshstyle said:
Hi Guys, hows it going today?

I am new here to the forum, I’ve been a mavic owner for a little over 2 weeks and I absolutely love love it!

however I have a quick question, I apologize in advanced if this has been asked before.

The switch on my mavic is set to “RC” – however I cant seem to get past 9mph / 14km/h flight speeds.

Am I missing something inside the software or anywhere?

I know a lot of people get fast speeds – but I have never been able to break 9 mph.

Thanks in advanced for the help,

Safe flying!

Cheers

There is forward looking obstacle avoidance, and a lot of times it keeps the Mavic going slower so it can process the imagery to determine if it is going to run into something or not. If you flying somewhere without high contrast background it can slow it down a lot. If you are confident that you aren't going to fly into something during your flight, you can disable forward looking sensors to up the speed. Sport mode also turns off forward looking sensors, but it also drains your battery faster.

Michael Ainsworth · May 15, 2017

Are you in Tripod Mode?

HFMan · May 15, 2017

dslater said:
Are you sure you arent reading 9 m/s as 9 miles per hour? 9 metres per second is 20Mph.

This ^^^

neshstyle · May 16, 2017

So after some testing I realized what the problem was yesterday - I didnt have "multiple flight modes" turned on, so my sport mode was not a true sport mode!

Whoa does this baby ever zip around!