Suly
lvl.1
Flight distance : 3635 ft
United Kingdom
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Hi,
New Mavic Air Pilot here. I had quite a close call yesterday with my drone almost flying itself into a post. My battery warning came on as I had hit 30%. I was right next to my starting point in an empty car park (<10m) away, i was flying probably about 9ft in the air so I new I had more than enough time to land manually after I got the shot I wanted. Anyway long story short my drone went into RTH and there was one obstacle in its path, a little fence, at the entrance of the car park and it flew directly at it full speed. Luckily I reacted just fast enough and pushed up to clear the fence and cancelled the automatic RTH. It got me thinking about RTH and whether or not it would've stopped itself if the sensors picked up there was an obstacle or if it just doesn't use the sensors during return to home? At the speed it was flying I probably would have had 1 second before it would've collided.
If that is the case, I will adjust my flying habits to make sure its always going to be safe in the case of a RTH.
I also had another close call trying to get a shot of my friend doing a football skill whilst using active track. The drone was tracking friend 1 from behind as he ran towards friend 2 to skill past him and then shoot at a goal. Whilst friend 1 was doing his skill past friend 2, activetrack lost him and the drone stopped in place. Friend 1 continued his run and active track picked him up again. The drone then flew really fast towards friend 1 to capture him again and flew really close over friend 2s head, maybe about a ft high. This is another situation where I dont know if the sensors would've stopped if it was going straight at friend 2s head. Again if not, I will adjust my flying to make sure its a lot safer.
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