I came close to losing my drone last week in Bravaria of all places. Some last-minute thinking in the heat of battle saved the day.
The specifics: I was flying the Mavic immediately after a breaking storm. It was dry where I was standing, but there was some moisture and drizzle on route home (I’d flown several miles to get the shot). About 2,000 feet from home the drone suddenly started rising fast. I disabled the “go home” command and tried to lower the drone but each time I tried it started climbing again. I had only about 10% battery left and had visions of my aircraft losing juice and falling like a rock to an untimely death
Then it occurred to me that perhaps the object avoidance sensors had fogged up with all the moisture and the drone thought it was going to hit something if it descended. I recalled that if I moved the drone from its “normal” mode to “sport mode” the sensors would be disabled. Once I did that, the drone obeyed my commands and I was able to manually bring the drone to a safe landing with little battery to spare.
Talk about a close call.
