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lvl.3
Hong Kong
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So firstly I did maybe unwisely start the flight without maximum phone battery but your using your phone, you cant expect your phone to be constantly fully charged. It just caught me by surprise how quickly it could drain, it's a lesson learned that with full brightness and in cold weather (it wasnt extremely cold but the phone is outside of your pocket the whole time, im sure this contributes to the battery loss) your not going to get much time out of it. The phone also hadn't completely run out of battery either it probably turned off at about 15-20% as they do when they get cold. I have always used an ipad mini before, with my P3 and have been using it with the mavic, but this flight I had forgot the cable for it.
I am pretty sure I pressed the pause button (at least once, maybe more, so inadvertently paused the POI flight and then restarted it). Should it end the POI flight or just pause it?
When I got the mavic down to head height it seemed like this was just following the arc of the point of interest (I couldn't fly completely freely). Then it would not land (assuming this is because it was in POI mode). I also had started a RTH and then cancelled it (I wasn't completely comfortable with the home point set and it was right in front of me so felt it was easier to just land it manually.)
I am going to look at the logs to see what exactly I did and whether it had exited POI or not.
I did read the manual, plenty of times, I had enough time to and I have flown the P3 before so not a complete novice, but you can't prepare yourself for every possible eventuality.
I posted to give other people a heads up and warn them that the battery on your phone can deplete extremely quickly and it's probably not wise to be in one of these modes when the battery is getting low.
From now on I will always use my ipad mini.
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