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Gunship9 Posted at 2018-3-26 09:58
Surprised people promptly hit RTH when the drone goes into ATTI mode or has navigation problems. How do they expect RTH to work?
Another poster had the drone lose GPS, start to drift away, and the pilot reacted by pressing RTH about a hundred times on both the controller and the app. He never touched the flight sticks as the drone left him.
'What's an ATTI-mode?'
To be honest, I'm not that surprised. Drones are becomming more and more accesible to people. A great experience, your own camera in the sky, easy to fly, everybody can do it!
Just look at these people smiling!
If you encounter dificulties, just let go off the controls! It will just hover...
That reliance has been created because of technology advances and even marketing. Many people that discover drones nowaday have never had the pleasure of experiencing flying a GPS-less drone, and now its even gotten worse because of the complete inability to turn on ATTI-mode yourself with the majority of DJI's consumer drones.
The biggest downside of that is you can't even gain the experience of flying without GPS-fix, and I would even go as far as saying DJI can at least be held partially responsible for blown-aways because they have effectively decided that users shouldn't be bothered with an ATTI-switch.
Yes, you should read the manual, inside out and then again, but that doesn't teach anyone how to fly in ATTI mode IRL. Expectance comes from experience, but the only way to get experience nowadays is being confronted and learn it the hard way.
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