I intentionally didn't go too high when I switched it to manual mode because I did not know what it consisted of... and what it consisted of what skills that I did not have nor desire to have. Apparently, it's the mode where you do cool stuff like flips, but I didn't get the phantom for that. I only got it for air cinematography. Long story short, about 30 feet in the air, it flipped upside down and when straight for the ground... and now, a broken GPS. $150 repair which I cannot afford right now.