chalde
First Officer
Flight distance : 668314 ft
United States
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Since I didn't get a chance to fly my Mavic for 2 weeks or so, thought I'll just turn it on outside real quick to make sure I didn't get any forced FW update or the likes pushed on the remote or Mavic itself by the DJI top notch software engineers.
It's pitch black, right in front of my house, with one single street light, pretty far. So just wanted a very simple take off and landing flight, 3 meters high at most.
While leaving the drone in the air to make sure all is good, I've noticed that it was drifting , all direction, quite a bit. Not huge drifting, but definitely something that forces me to adjust its position. Compared to normal behavior, definitely a different experience.
Now, I realize that the Front Sensor and Bottoms sensor will not work because of darkness, but I thought the drone will still hover in place based on GPS? Do we still need enough light for stable hovering? I suppose I could just wait until tomorrow morning and do another check, but I assume it's simply darkness that causes this behavior...
For the few pilots who did some video at night, did you experience a similar behavior?
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