I was flying up the side of a mountain. I was hoping the drone would use the height above the ground in which it was flying. Didn't work with the DJI GO 4 app. Can anyone give me ideas on how to get past this? Thanks!
It doesn't work this way, that'll be too easy . Your upper limit is determined by recorded Home altitude at launch, not by the above ground altitude. Therefore you must walk up there, arm your bird and take off. 500m is your maximum, no matter legal or not at this particular place ...I was flying up the side of a mountain. I was hoping the drone would use the height above the ground in which it was flying. Didn't work with the DJI GO 4 app. Can anyone give me ideas on how to get past this? Thanks!
That may work. Just make sure you bring an extra pair of pants ...Set altitude at max allowed, land at distance where you can still have VLOS... don’t turn anything off. Wait 20 seconds or so and then TO and the last landing point will register as 0’ AGL. Then fly on up! Just stay w/in 400’ of the mountainside. I used this trick flying the Santans to get above the summit (2200’).
Of course no RTH to you and you’l have to fly the drone home.
LOLThat may work. Just make sure you bring an extra pair of pants ...
Exactly what I want to doIt’s too long at 6+ minutes..... but here’s the edited flight.
This is about 2.5 miles south of my home.
Did you land your drone on the way up and reset the home point?It’s too long at 6+ minutes..... but here’s the edited flight.
This is about 2.5 miles south of my home.
Yes but it was incidental due to landing to reset AGL.Did you land your drone on the way up and reset the home point?
It’s too long at 6+ minutes..... but here’s the edited flight.
This is about 2.5 miles south of my home.
He’s not considering topography. The M2P and Zoom have a hardwired max altitude of 1600’ AGL. The mountain I looked over has it’s peak at 2200’ AGL. What others have termed ”leapfrog” works very well... have your instructor rethink it.I talked to my pilot instructor and the leapfrog advice is wrong. Just set your max altitude to the height of the object and then add 400' to that AGL and you are good... I was hoping there was a better answer, whew...
All I asked him was did we have to do this leapfrog to get above an object that is greater than 400' AGL. What I was referring to is to ask this discussion what happens if you change the object you have to climb to a metal tower or a rock escarpment neither having landing places... I assume my mini2 has the same limitation as its big brother (I'm still learning) but it seems much safer to be able to change the ceiling using the sectional charts for the base AGL and adding the 400'.He’s not considering topography. The M2P and Zoom have a hardwired max altitude of 1600’ AGL. The mountain I looked over has it’s peak at 2200’ AGL. What others have termed ”leapfrog” works very well... have your instructor rethink it.
BTW, you still have to stay within 400’ of the ground below even though it would be easy to go to 3200’ using my method.