paf flight switch...? Not trying to cancel rth- trying to cancel auto land at critically low battery level.
I believe my first warning is at 20% -changes when out at distance. I've noticed the app factors in distance for return travel and warns earlier, seemingly to compensate for the power needed. Smart batteries have integrated protection.
Mark
After you gain control and the battery goes to zero because you maxed the throttle-- then gravity will have control.Raise the throttle to max in such cases. P3 will start hovering. Take control then.
The auto/force landing at 10% is new, and it cannot now be cancelled, unlike RTH. It can only be delayed while applying full up throttle, to give you an opportunity to navigate with the right stick to a safer location. While delaying it with full throttle, I do not believe you can ascend. You can only prevent further descent. I don't like it either! If you are flying over water or from a pier or from a deck overlooking a grove of trees, it can spell disaster! Maintain full up throttle until you are over where you want to land, and as soon as you let go, it will land by itself! The lowest you can now set the Low Battery Warning is 15%, but at 20% the green rear lights will still turn to red. The Critically Low Battery Warning also can no longer be set below 10%, which is what is now forcing the autoland at 10%. Hope this helps!I would like to know if anyone else is able to cancel out of auto/force landing.
Thanks,
Mark.
Thanks for your testing. Your information may save many drones! Glad to know we can still ascend, albeit less aggressively than normal, under forced Autoland, after reaching 10% remaining battery. I'd rather risk killing a battery, than guaranteeing the loss of the entire aircraft and the battery, while I am trying to safely land back on the end of a 1,000 foot long pier, over the ocean, in an emergency, in high winds! Without some ascension capabilty to keep it above the pier surface, it otherwise Autolands into the ocean, if over the edge of the pier, in high winds, already below the pier surface! It only happened once, and I was lucky, but now I have another tool in my tool chest of emergency recovery methods! Thank you!Did a bit of testing today. You can ascend. Not with the normal veracity as normal, but seemingly without a limit. While holding full throttle up, I was able to maneuver where I wanted. Didn't seem to drain the battery at any different of a rate as normal.
Still wish I could just simply cancel out of auto/forced landing as I was able to before. [emoji34]
Mark.
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