Mavic 2 Flyaway (solved)

[DesertDan]

My M2P lost signal for 22 seconds. It reconnected and was in RTH home mode, but was pointed in the opposite direction and flying away from the home point!!!



I managed to cancel the RTH and fly it home. Tried to manually start the RTH a couple of times afterwards and it was all ok.

No error messages at all, e.g. compass etc.

Is this a bug?

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[msinger]

Is this a bug?

No. When the remote controller signal disconnects, the Mavic 2 will retrace the previous flight path for about 60 seconds to attempt to reconnect the signal. If that fails, it will fly directly back to the home point.

 

[DesertDan]

No. When the remote controller signal disconnects, the Mavic 2 will retrace the previous flight path for about 60 seconds to attempt to reconnect the signal. If that fails, it will fly directly back to the home point.

Ah, wow, never had that before. Many thanks, just learnt something new.

 

[Mossiback]

You might want to re-title your thread.

 

[WobblingWillie]

No. When the remote controller signal disconnects, the Mavic 2 will retrace the previous flight path for about 60 seconds to attempt to reconnect the signal. If that fails, it will fly directly back to the home point.

Is there a way to turn that off so that upon signal loss the drone returns directly home?

 

[sar104]

Is there a way to turn that off so that upon signal loss the drone returns directly home?

No. And why would you want to do that? Retracing the flight path has a good chance of re-establishing the uplink and, if the link was lost due to terrain or a tall building, then it will avoid the aircraft's eventual RTH path from being blocked by the obstacle.

 

[WobblingWillie]

No. And why would you want to do that? Retracing the flight path has a good chance of re-establishing the uplink and, if the link was lost due to terrain or a tall building, then it will avoid the aircraft's eventual RTH path from being blocked by the obstacle.

Cause some of us are flat-landers whose only obstacles are trees and we're already above all of them. ;-)

 

[sar104]

Cause some of us are flat-landers whose only obstacles are trees and we're already above all of them. ;-)

Then what do you imagine is going to cause signal loss?

 

[WobblingWillie]

Then what do you imagine is going to cause signal loss?

The geometry of triangles.

 

[James Flappsworth]

That's a really helpful bit of knowledge msinger. Thanks very much for sharing!

 

[msinger]

Is there a way to turn that off so that upon signal loss the drone returns directly home?

There is no setting to disable this feature in DJI GO. I looked through the flight parameters (available when running DJI Assistant 2 1.1.2) and didn't see any parameters that seemed to be for that setting.

 

[Paddytfm]

Does this configuration can arrive on mavic Platinium or is it inherent to M2P or DJI Go software ?

 

[sar104]

Does this configuration can arrive on mavic Platinium or is it inherent to M2P or DJI Go software ?

Mavic Air and Mavic 2 only.

 

[msinger]

Does this configuration can arrive on mavic Platinium or is it inherent to M2P or DJI Go software ?

It's baked into the aircraft firmware. There's no way to add that feature to aircraft that don't support it (like the Mavic Pro Platinum).

 

[charliesRig]

No. When the remote controller signal disconnects, the Mavic 2 will retrace the previous flight path for about 60 seconds to attempt to reconnect the signal. If that fails, it will fly directly back to the home point.

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Amazing will this also acur in the Mavic Pro 1 LOS backtrack for 60 seconds before RTH.?
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[msinger]

will this also acur in the Mavic Pro 1 LOS backtrack for 60 seconds before RTH.?

No. The Mavic Pro will not attempt to retrace its previous flight path.

 

[RobH2]

Then is there a setting to allow the Mavic to "retrace" its previous path should you desire that? The logic behind why it does that sounds good like @sar104 mentions.

 

[sar104]

Then is there a setting to allow the Mavic to "retrace" its previous path should you desire that? The logic behind why it does that sounds good like @sar104 mentions.

It's not a setting. It was first implemented as a feature in the Mavic Air firmware, and then in the Mavic 2. It wasn't retrospectively added to the Mavic Pro.;

 

[Tiago_Wolf]

It's not a setting. It was first implemented as a feature in the Mavic Air firmware, and then in the Mavic 2. It wasn't retrospectively added to the Mavic Pro.;

Yeap. Mavic Air was first to introduce the intelligent RTH although I'm not sure how it correlates the path already taken and the morphology of the terrain/ obstacles.

Although it makes sense on a city/ building scenario, the truth is that Mavic Air will lose signal and if you have "hover" on signal loss settings... I don't know how well the rth will respond.

Besides that, MP2 offers way more battery/ flight time and that only increases the already stressful task of RTH with video feed.

But, as soon as video feed/ connection occurs, then the stress levels will decrease, at least if you have enough battery to return or before that annoying repeating sound of the battery low ahah

 

[sar104]

Yeap. Mavic Air was first to introduce the intelligent RTH although I'm not sure how it correlates the path already taken and the morphology of the terrain/ obstacles.

Although it makes sense on a city/ building scenario, the truth is that Mavic Air will lose signal and if you have "hover" on signal loss settings... I don't know how well the rth will respond.

Besides that, MP2 offers way more battery/ flight time and that only increases the already stressful task of RTH with video feed.

But, as soon as video feed/ connection occurs, then the stress levels will decrease, at least if you have enough battery to return or before that annoying repeating sound of the battery low ahah

It just back-tracks the flight path exactly - on the basis that, since there were no obstacles on the path it followed to get there, it can reverse that path without encountering any.