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Hover-Fly Posted at 3-1 07:04
DJI singularly fail to understand the importance of having Atti mode to hand so you can practice becoming a competent pilot when GPS/Glosnass lock fails, When. It will happen. There is no question that knowing and practising how to fly in Atti mode will make you a more competent pilot, indeed it is a requisite to pass your commercial operators permissions within the UK, although some examiners do provide workarounds. For DJI to hide the Atti Mode functionality away on the Mavic 2 series and give pilots Sport Mode instead is questionable at best. Regards.
I think the opposite applies here, dji do in fact realize the potential of atti mode and the pros and cons.
I see many older users particularly now with inspire and phantoms using atti mode particularly when filiming a lot of these guys still use atti mode, when I was doing my commercial license practical Atti was a requirement for part of it, I used P4 at the time, guy in front of me completed his practical in atti mode with inspire 1, I felt inadequate and was ver6 impressed.
But getting back to why it’s a lot less beneficial for Mavic users to have atti mode on drones.
When drones started to become popular IE phantom 2 many many users destroyed their drones for reasons like they didn’t know anything about Atti mode, so it seemed that every second drone taking off in atti mode was smashing to a wall tree etc and this was similar with P3.
Forums lit up with single complaint why does drone need atti mode, if only they had known control was so limited they wouldn’t have tried it, so not reading the manual and blaming dji.
The biggest growth in consumer drones by far came with the introduction of Mavic pro 1, and one of its biggest successes was none were lost due to user flying in atti mode and this has continued through all the Mavic line, so now nobody complains about loosing their drone to atti mode as against hundreds being lost because atti mode was a feature.
Yes some are lost now when craft looses gps and auto atti mode kicks in , but nothing like the numbers seen with drones that have atti mode, so law of averages and what’s good for the goose applies here.
I’m not sure of how many times a pilot will completely lose gps in the life of his drone, I have at least 3 that have never lost gps and I expect it’s similar for the greater majority of dji drones.
Learning to fly in atti mode is usually when crashes occur, so practice Atti mode usually causes crash not avoids crash and in cases like M2P this is an incredibly expensive lesson to learn while your learning to fly.
A sensible option to learning to fly is to buy cheap drone to practice , they usually are pretty robust and give you a great option to learning to fly without sensors as well as gps, and they offer a much lower risk than using your very expensive drone to learn to fly.
Remember also ALL dji drones automatically go to to ATTI/OPTI mode when gps is lost whether mini or inspire switch is basically redundant unless you want to fly in atti mode for a specific reason, I also think that if flying in Atti mode is something you require for something other than just practice then there are many options available.
I think both people and drones on the whole are a bit safer for not having an atti switch on their drone.
My 2p worth . |
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