Windy Conditions?

[CaptMavic]

Hey everyone.
I'm loving my mavic. I was wondering if you have to crab your mavic's into the wind when it's extra windy or does your aircraft automatically compensate? I notice when it's windy I have to turn my drone into the wind if I want it to go in a straight line. Anyone else have to do this?

 

[Former Member]

I use a combination of yaw and cyclic "roll" to compensate for a crosswind. The gimbal should try to compensate and stay level the whole while. Any crosswind over 15mph, I find correction necessary.

Your Mavic should autocompensate if you are using Litchi or waypoint mission using GPS to lock in your course. Also, RTH will compensate and draw a beeline from when you request RTH to home point.

The first time I ever heard the word crab was in a Piper Cub taildragger when I was a little boy. My dad had to land almost sideways to compensate for the crosswind.