KangaAir
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Flight distance : 590974 ft
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PatientPlaya Posted at 2017-1-15 13:26
I had a situation yesterday, where I was under heavy tree cover, and flew down into a wide gorge, I had not GPS, and I was ok with that as I was in full line of sight.... but when I descended down into the gorge I kept getting a maximum altitude reached message.... and as I went down I kept getting it.... but when I went to ascend..... I couldn't fly up back to me...... I let it hover while try a bunch of different settings to no avail.... I did finally get enough gps satellites to get a lock and then was able to get it back.... whew!... Is there a way to override that?... if I turned off the vision sensors would that have worked? I did not want to do that because I was close to rocks....
Had a similar experience in a gorge (Vienna Austria) 3 days ago, seriously thought I would lose the Mavic Air, maximum heart palpitations LOL.
Been flying two years never encountered this problem before.
Had limited satellite coverage, after 2 minutes in a narrow gorge "max altitude alert" beeped, thought ok this is a new challenge, refused to go up, only down.
Could not get a strong sat signal, feverishly looked to change altitude settings, no deal. Disabled sensors (cautiously) ... made no difference to alert.
It was not until I moved drone horizontal in gorge that a GPS signal eventually got enabled, instantly allowed me to ascend and get the hell out of there.
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