hallmark007
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Are antennas and the positioning of , the cause of many of these problems, probably not, many of the fly a ways you read about here are pilot error. But once you say that there is a tendency for those who have had problems to freak out, and usually say well if it happened to you , you wouldn't be saying that.
If you loose radio signal your aircraft will RTH provided you have set the parameters correctly, that's a fact and 99.9 % of these aircraft provided they are set up correctly and checked before you go to fly will act as you have set it up.
Why do people loose signal, not setting up antennas properly, flying in unsuitable areas or flying out of line of sight of remote controller, all of these potential problems are clearly pointed out in the manual.
A lot of people just want to take these aircraft out of the box and fly them, they flick through the manual quick check over the app , put the Mavic on the ground and away they go.
When something goes wrong they are not sure what to do, panic might set in and continually pushing buttons in the hope that they will get lucky, this very seldom happens, and they report fly a way.
A fly a way nearly always will have an explanation as to why this happened, in my experience nearly all so called fly a way are caused by loss of gps or compass interference or by badly set up aircraft.
The cause of fly a way is nearly always pilot error, not reading and understanding the manual , not preparing their aircraft before they fly, never thinking about risk assessment if something goes wrong, if your gps is low you will be able to check this on your monitor screen, you can avoid loosing gps a number of ways, but if you don't know how to then you have problems, but if you read the Manual it will tell you exactly what happens when you loose gps, so if you take the time to figure out what you might do in such a situation or how you can avoid a this , you may well be able to recover your aircraft.
Take a example , in the manual it tells you to fly VLOS so if you loose gps you can still see your aircraft, you will have an option of flying your aircraft to safety or you can just land it, if you can't see your aircraft your now flying by the seat of your pants, or if you are more experienced you may be able with the use of telemetry to fly your aircraft to safety.
So VLOS gives you a good option to save your aircraft from fly a way.
And for many other reasons these aircraft crash or fly a way or loose signal, there are an equal amount or more things you can do to avoid these things happening. In my opinion the proper amount of preparation and understanding of flying these aircraft in suitable places will go along way to avoiding many of the problems you read about on this forum. |
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