Labroides
Core User of DJI
Flight distance : 9991457 ft
Australia
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Your son was never going to have that drone for long.
His flight data shows no understanding of even basic drone flying skills.
He launched without GPS and flew an unknown distance before the drone acquired GPS and recorded a homepoint well away from where he launched.
He flew in a strong gusty wind - at 400 ft the drone had to fight to hold position in the stronger gusts.
He took the drone up to 750 ft where it was unable to hold position because to the wind velocity, and then went even higher to 940 ft.
At that height the wind speed in gusts was more than the Mavic 2's top speed in P-GPS mode and the drone was being blown away at up to 3.5 metres/sec while fighting to hold position.
There were numerous warnings on the screen as well as the increasing distance, but the flyer was oblivious to these and let the drone be blown away.
He made no effort to bring the drone back closer to home and left it up, much too high in the stronger winds at altitude.
At around 12 minutes with the battery at 35% and the drone 460 metres away, he made some effort to fly towards home and found that the drone was still being blown backwards by the wind.
At around 12:20, the drone was still 560 ft up, he became totally disoriented and started flying away from home, taking it further away at speed.
Signal was lost at 12:55 when the drone had been flown to a point 580 metres away.
It was still at 520 feet and being blown backwards.
When signal was lost, it would have initiated RTH, but the drone would not have been able to make headway against the headwind at that height.
There is no indication of GPS being lost.
As the incident happened 4 weeks ago, the chances of finding to drone now are minimal.
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