CelticRambler
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France
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Not *exactly* the same problem here, but in a similar vein. This morning, I'd followed "best practice" and flown upwind to do some site surveillance at about 750m distance and 350m AGL. About 15-20 minutes into the flight, the app crashed and it's damn difficult to maintain line-of-sight when you're trying to figure out what just happened, especially when the last thing the app did before dying was flash up a high wind warning. Five minutes later, app restarted, my MP is now 750m *downwind* and drifting further by the second. The high wind warning is back, now coupled with a low battery warning, both taking space on the screen, and - of course - the incessant beeping.
For five minutes, I really struggled to get any forward flight (i.e. into the wind), even after dropping down to 30m (had to give up on line of sight), so now I'm getting a critically low battery warning. Fair enough, but I've been fighting this situation for five minutes - I'm aware of what's going on! So I finally get clear of the motorway and the village, when the app tells me that it's initiating an emergency landing, and then I get that whole-screen blackout that SanDiegoAir mentionned, asking me to confirm that I agree to the emergency landing. So hands off the controls - knowing that the aircraft only ended up where it is because it *couldn't* maintain its position without my input - to confirm.
Then another whole-screen blackout telling me that obstacle avoidance needed to be disabled to allow landing. WTF???
Then *another* one ... telling me that the landing site was unsuitable and could I please choose somewhere else. I didn't.
And, of course, non-stop beeping, beeping, beeping as if all those messages and the red icons on the screen (when I could see it) weren't enough to let me know that I was out of time.
All-in-all, an extremely stressful end to what should have been a fairly routine flight, due to DJI's seeming obsession with covering their own asses instead of letting us manage a potential crisis in the calmest possible circumstances.
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