Cincinnati represent baby. Gotta love this ******** of a city =]
Darn good advise, Kakao, and well said!I think this is the best advise for anyone (including myself) who's panicking in certain situations.
Pausing will make MP hoover in place, while a pilot can cool his head a little bit, and decide what is the best thing to do next.
I'd say many crashes happen just because of pilot's panic. Once that's off the table, one can safely assess the situation and land the bird.
Yep. So basically, the AC is say a boat, a big one... its on auto pilot, heading for an island. If left to its own devices, the auto pilot should dock at the island with little input from the skipper. However the skipper thinks there is going to be a problem so knocks the boat out of auto pilot. Then, the scenario becomes like knocking you car out of gear, reversing down a boat ramp.....you better be quick.....
joejaxvic123 said:
I had a similar experience with the MPP overshooting the home point into a tree on a RTH. Like you I was near a tree but not directly under it, but because the Mavic is coming home at full speed it takes a few feet for it to come to a stop. It's as if the RTH algorithm is "go at full throttle until the current location matches the home point, then release the throttle" - not accounting for the stopping distance. You'd think they would take the stopping distance into account and get off the throttle a few feet before the home point to eliminate the overshoot, like they do during waypoint missions, but whatever.
I now take this behavior into account when selecting a launch point.
I'm sure you can (and already have). But in many previous cases the flight logs have been really valuable, especially when some of the geniuses here analyze them and give us all a readout as to precisely what happened...and yes, in some cases they tell a story differently than what the pilot remembers. It helps the community at large to share this information.
