HereForTheBeer
Second Officer
Flight distance : 5381368 ft
United States
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dont always trust your low power RTH if you manage a decent power run.
i made it over 13,700 feet the other day, almost lost the poor mavic air.. it requested RTH at 64% power, i accepted, i was going to push a bit further but i was over water so.. ya know better to be safe than sorry.
wind was calm as far as i knew, very still, eerily still, specially for over the river. anyway, on its return trip wow, battery was being chewed up.. last 1500 feet i did on 0%. but i got back to my location on the dock, pulled battery out right away because i fearing maybe damaged severely didn't want it to catch fire in my drone or something.. but all good, plugged it into my car charger and started charging like normal, and it works on handful of tests i did it seems normal..
im surprised it made it all the way back.. i mean i has little choice.. basically dump it in rover, drop it over city area on either side or at least try to bring it back... i picked bringing it back because as i get close to the city sides it suffers signal issues and i wasn't sure i would have a clean enough signal to find a good spot to land it..and since wasnt ready to deny me forward motion imma keep going.. |
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