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dianea Posted at 2017-2-9 15:51
I just read an addition to the latest revison was the ability to kill the motors by left stick down and to the right(CSC)..... while holding the RTH button down!....WARNING KILLS MOTORS IN FLIGHT
dianea is exactly right. This is an emergency protocol. Very sorry to hear about your drone. Worst feeling in the world.
Unfortunately it looks like you did everything wrong, and I don't mean to sound mean, I hate when people get on here and say negative things. I know you already feel like crap so I won't pile on. First off, YOU MAY BE ABLE TO FIND YOUR DRONE. IF you still have your remote, you can see the last place your drone was active through your user log. Now if it truly is in a stream and somehow washed ashore while on, go look for it!! It's worth a try. The navigation system is really good!!
So here your mistake for next time. If your drone was trying to Return Home and you pushed downwards, instead of returning home it did exactly what you said. Next time set your RTH to well above the highest point around you. If your failsafe comes on, do not panic!!! Never panic and keep cool. Most times when your failsafe comes you will be 100 % fine.
So if you did this correctly this is how it would have gone. Failsafe activates, a message appears that your drone is returning to its home point. From there it will ascend straight up to the RTH height and go directly to your return home point. You DO have the ability to override the drone and cancel out of the failsafe mode unless the GEO system senses you are in a Prohibited flight area (per the manual). I always think a moderately high point is better then a low one unless you are flying in low level terrain). In all honesty, if you did absolutely nothing at all, your drone would have landed safely right next to you unless your drone was really really far away.. If you had all of your sensors on, the drone would/should have avoided all obstacles in its way. Again the exception would be if you are flying in a prohibited area. In that case your drone will go straight down, but I believe you have the ability to maintain your altitude until you find a safe place to land (I don't think you can ascend, only maintain altitude). However your sensors (in theory) would be deactivated since the override priority would be to land. Now this what I gather from reading the manual and the forum. Maybe others can chime in. However, definitely don't buy another drone until you learn these things or you are just handing DJI money. |
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