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Bad Air & Smoke in my California Neighborhood
On Sep 15, 2020 at 10:03:24 AM PDT, "Alfred Molon"
wrote: In article .com, says... Here is one of my first (4th) MA2 flights in early July, which taught me a lesson about losing visual contact & controller connection. Fortunately the excellent DJI system saved the day. What I am showing with this video are the hills shown in the linked shot above, and just how clear things are when there is no smoke. https://photos.smugmug.com/Air-2-Work/i-Jv5psp9/0/4b99207a/1920/NearMiss-1920.mp4 Pretty cool. So it autoinitiated the return to home when it lost contact, and automatically reestablished the connection to your controller once it was in range? Yup! It has a few failsafe features to prevent a lost drone if controller signal is lost, battery level is too low, or if you have lost visual contact. It will either initiate Auto Return to Home (RTH), or you can initiate RTH via the controller. You can cancel the Auto RTH once signal has been reestablished. It is good to be able to navigate back to your home point and land manually without the auto feature, but they are good to have. The other useful aid is the map on the controller which shows, and records the flight path. If the worst had happen, and I had to hike to retrieve it, there is a "find my drone" feature activates a beeper and has the marker lights flashing. The obstacle avoidance system also has several options to either go around, or over an obstacle, hover in place, or land. In the video above, the signal was reestablished when it cleared the tree and had an unobscured signal path. For one moment I visualized $799 lost. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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