What if your battery left 10% and your drone still on the way return to home?
what is going happen ? simple test here....
imaging if your drone is on the way return to home above the lake....but low battery left 10%....
What if battery left 10% and your drone still OTW return to home?
- Thread starter Kevinisme
- Start date
What if your battery left 10% and your drone still on the way return to home?
what is going happen ? simple test here....
imaging if your drone is on the way return to home above the lake....but low battery left 10%....
We have seen that happen on videos here before. We watched a mavic land in the ocean trying to make it home just the other day. He has a go fund me site to get money to replace his mavic.
Is that only for Mavics and P3's?
My P4 hits 9% regularly and starts the auto land but I just throttle up and fly it to where it needs to be before landing.
AD (actually it's a hand catch)
My P4 hits 9% regularly and starts the auto land but I just throttle up and fly it to where it needs to be before landing.
AD (actually it's a hand catch)
To each their own is how I fly. But I continue to marvel at people on here who test the boundaries of their batteries and aircraft on purpose to see how extreme they can go. I guess if you got $$$ burning a hole in your pocket, crashing a several hundred or several thousand dollar drone is not a big deal. Waiting until it's at 10% to bring it home is asking for trouble in my opinion unless you are already fairly close to home. But at least we get to see some good videos of crashes.
- Joined
- Jun 21, 2017
- Messages
- 117
- Reaction score
- 62
- Age
- 46
If you pick the right flying location then most of the risk is removed. For example, last October I wanted to test the range limit on a stock battery (no mods) on my P3P so I picked a public park in Ohio that is very flat and has no surrounding trees or other signal obstacles. On one test, I flew out 4.3 miles and on the way back I could tell I wasnt going to make it because the battery was down to 5% and I still had a mile left to go. Luckily, I still had an FPV signal so I was able to manually guide the drone to a safe landing spot outside the edge of the park in an empty housing development lot. I lowered it to 10 ft. above ground and watched as the battery meter went from 2% to 1% and then I lost signal but I had a good visual of where it landed. I drove out to the spot and the P3 was in perfect condition.
But yeah, guys who fly range contests over the ocean are totally nuts --- must have too much money burning holes in pockets.
I thought I read somewhere that it could tell when battery was to low to make it back to home point and would intimate rth at that point and not only at 10%.
A test I want to do is see the distance it can travel when down to low battery-30%. I then can mix it or how far out I am before I need to real her in.
A test I want to do is see the distance it can travel when down to low battery-30%. I then can mix it or how far out I am before I need to real her in.
Similar threads
