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Xman1 Posted at 2017-8-17 06:49
I agree with this. About a month ago, I finally had one of the incidents I keep reading about. The Mavic would not stop and hover but kept forward flight, I still had directional control so I made a split second decision and I purposely aimed for tree which caught it as I hoped and no damage was done except losing 3 props. I did have to climb the tree to get it. If I had the ability to switch to a manual fly mode, I could have flown in manually down to the street without issue.
I know the error I made, taking off on the deck of a house, right next to its metal roof. Everything seemed normal on initial takeoff until I left the vicinity of the roof. People say don't do this... I am here to tell you - really don't do this!
What you described sounds like what I call "BATTI" (as in "bad attitude") mode, and it's not the same as true ATTI. I've experienced both, and flying in (true) ATTI mode isn't much help in learning to deal with BATTI. The best thing to do if you encounter BATTI is use the throttle to gain enough altitude to clear the nearby obstacles, because the Mavic also begins rotating as though you're applying rudder, and once it has rotated enough you're able to fly normally. But yes, as you mentioned, the best strategy is avoidance by not taking off near metal. |
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