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When real pilots spend time in simulators or flight training, they spend a lot of their time practicing for emergencies.
With 2 years of drone piloting behind me, I ran into a situation July 4 where my battery level suddenly dropped significantly, RTH wasn't an option (literally X'd out on the UI) because the P3P decided to land right away. I tried to keep it up and bring it closer but it wasn't having any part of it. It came down hard and inverted and is on its way back to me from a significant repair from DJI now with a pilot who learned a valuable lesson.
I'd thought a little about what to do in an emergency, but when it hit, in the dark, with the drone a few blocks from home, panic set in. In retrospect given the situation it was in, I should have pointed the camera down and tried to find a streetlight-lit sidewalk or grass spot to aim it at as it was descending.
So the first thing I'm going to do with the repaired drone is actually spend some time practicing emergency procedures -- RTH, finding a landing spot quickly, remembering I can flip it to the relative mode where pulling the stick towards me makes the drone fly towards me, etc.
Which brings me to the question: What emergency procedures have you guys either (1) practiced, or (2) put into good use to save your drone? Would love to hear what y'all think is important.
(Also, i'd written off the simulator when I first got my P3P because it required an actual connection to the drone. But maybe the simulator is a good place to practice some procedures?)
With 2 years of drone piloting behind me, I ran into a situation July 4 where my battery level suddenly dropped significantly, RTH wasn't an option (literally X'd out on the UI) because the P3P decided to land right away. I tried to keep it up and bring it closer but it wasn't having any part of it. It came down hard and inverted and is on its way back to me from a significant repair from DJI now with a pilot who learned a valuable lesson.
I'd thought a little about what to do in an emergency, but when it hit, in the dark, with the drone a few blocks from home, panic set in. In retrospect given the situation it was in, I should have pointed the camera down and tried to find a streetlight-lit sidewalk or grass spot to aim it at as it was descending.
So the first thing I'm going to do with the repaired drone is actually spend some time practicing emergency procedures -- RTH, finding a landing spot quickly, remembering I can flip it to the relative mode where pulling the stick towards me makes the drone fly towards me, etc.
Which brings me to the question: What emergency procedures have you guys either (1) practiced, or (2) put into good use to save your drone? Would love to hear what y'all think is important.
(Also, i'd written off the simulator when I first got my P3P because it required an actual connection to the drone. But maybe the simulator is a good place to practice some procedures?)