PUMMY
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Flight distance : 376450 ft
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hallmark007 Posted at 2018-3-12 02:58
It is never sloppy to check condition of your battery particularly right before you fly, it takes a very short time and once you get used to doing it, it becomes second nature.
Manned pilots preflight check everything on their aircraft even though on board computers also report findings, they even do it old school way pen and preflight logs.
Allow me to explain my “sloppy” comment
(I do realise that automated processes can fail, so this is not lost on me)
The batteries don’t have balancer leads we can plug a smart balancer into and check the battery levels with, you have to navigate the app and access the menu in order to do so.
If this has to be checked in the app, then you can automate this as DJI dictate, in order to ensure battery health before a flight
And if this can be automated, the logs can be included in the flight records as well to provide a record of battery health, maybe even allow pre emptive battery failure detection because we have a history
In the electric glider world, the battery health check could not be automated, but that is not the case here and the point here is to understand why a manual navigation to the settings would provide a safer battery health check than the app doing this, and flagging any conditions that could impact a safe flight
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