*ALMOST CRASHED* HUGE Return To Home Issue - DJI AVATA 2

Whilst testing my new DJI Avata 2, I did a signal loss RTH test. This almost ended in a complete loss of the aircraft and it unveiled a quite shocking issue with RTH.
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I hope this is just a one-off or maybe an issue with my aircraft. Either way it's concerning.
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[@danjor_droneitsme6874]

Dji needs to investigate this one for sure,please keep us posted.Try a RTH in an open area to see if it repeats it.

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

Yeah, it's pretty concerning, I will do more testing and see if it happens again or if it appears to have been a one off. I'll make sure to let you know what happens

[@BlueDroneBlues]

Could be just an impatient take off and the drone didn't get a chance to setup altitude on the Home Point. If you are unsure? Do a reset on your Home Point so the drone can get an exact location where it's at and what the altitude is.

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

@@BlueDroneBlues Hey! The aircraft had a great GPS fix and the home point was set correctly. I have checked the flight log to make sure. The aircraft also registered on take off that the RTH altitude should be 50m. And it registered it's take off altitude to be 0m. Then on signal loss it climbed to 50m. Then immediately started decrease altitude on the homeward leg. No input was received from he radio until The Signal came back enough for me to cancel the RTH. At which point the aircraft is showing at an altitude of less than 8m. All will be shown in an upcoming follow up video hopefully tomorrow. 😃

[@sound_freq]

Do you have a battery level upon RTH triggered?

[@MrDomelah]

Thats why I sold my Mavic 2 back in the day. It had too many bugs, almost lost it due bugs a dew times, became way too frustrating and uncomfortable using it,kniwing I can lose a 2 month salary in a blink due to it not working as intended. So apparently the DJI drones are still haunted by the same issues

[@LowryDroneography-Steve]

This is a suggestion but might not be correct! I assume as you fly manual that you have the stick loosened too, so it stays where you leave it? Remember when using RTH on certain other drones in the past, you could decrease altitude whilst it was flying back? Just thinking, maybe it does that and maybe your stick was low throttle. Just an idea!

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

Very good point! I was flying in manual and was not sure of the stick position, but considering I had no connection to the drone until just before the tree I would be unsure how it would register an altitude reduction input. It would also make sense to me not to have manual altitude control during a RTH if the last flight mode was manual because the stick could be in any location. Interesting though, I'll have to test this out

[@LowryDroneography-Steve]

@@JustinBainbridgeYT Yeah totally I would think these drones don’t work like that but maybe. Plus sometimes stick connection can still be going on whilst goggle link is crapping out in some cases I think. Hope you’re enjoying it apart from the scare though! Loving mine 👌

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

@LowryDroneography-Steve Yeah I would guess they would've thought of that. Yeah sometimes that's the case but they feed the rc link through the goggles on the Avata 2. Very weird. Yeah apart from this hiccup, I've been absolutely loving it, it flies exceptionally well for what it is and the image quality is so much better than the previous camera. I have a lot of good things to say about this drone, just unfortunate that I had to start with an issue but I felt I had to bring it up

[@LowryDroneography-Steve]

@@JustinBainbridgeYT Oh yeah good point. Everythings through the goggles and it’s many antennas 👌🏼 yeah totally, it’s an experience to spark interest. I really do like the way it flies VS v1, as well as the camera being brilliant now. I did shoot a 3rd video in some woods yesterday where I also flew the Avata 1 once before, but it was a bit rushed VS the others so I’m going to re-do it asap, need another calm morning 😅

[@BlueDroneBlues]

I have gone from manual mode and hit the stop button and it actually stopped, unlike the OG Avata. I pressed and held it in longer to engage RTH and it rises a bit, paused and turned toward me. It then rise again to the elevation I setup on the Avata 2 and performed RTH flawlessly. The sticks on the Controller 3 when the drone is in RTH will not play a factor at all, unless it isn't truly in RTH Mode. I ran some tests on this yesterday. Nothing wrong with getting to know your drones safety features.

[@mariokotlar303]

Thank you for making this video. Great PSA for all of us Avata 2 owners. Subbed now, hoping for a followup!

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

No problem. I did a lot more testing today and I've got some more things to test tomorrow then a follow up video should follow late tomorrow. Very odd indeed

[@shawnstoik]

the Mountian ridge and deep valleys on both sides, through it off.

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

This should have no effect. It uses a barometer to measure its altitude, also it was showing a lower altitude at the point the signal came back so it knew what height it was at it just didn't respond to it

[@brandon9689]

Stuff like this is exactly why I haven't bought the drone yet. I just got my FPV3 controller in the mail today. I'm waiting one month minimum before I order the rest of the package. To be fair I operate my drones where most of the time I am not using intelligent flight. Or if I do engage any I always do it within a very clear and local visual line of sight with my finger on that cancel button at all times.

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

Yep, very true, I expected to regain signal pretty soon after rth kicked in and it ascended, but it didn't come back for a lot longer than I expected. Hopefully a software bug that gets sorted in an update

[@Andyrewk]

It bases the height off of where it takes off from, not from the ground bellow it. So if you’d launched from a lower area the 50 meters you have set is based on its home point starting height. Not where its current location is. For instance: if you launch from on top of a cliff and go into a valley it will show a negative height number. Just food for thought.

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

Hey, yep I am aware that this is how the height is calculated on the drone. However, the drone decreased to 8m in height relative to the launch point at the point I cancelled the RTH. 50m was plenty of height from the take off point to clear all the obtacles, it just descened for some reason. I haven't managed to recreate the issue, so I'm guessing it was just a glitch. 😃

[@Andyrewk]

@@JustinBainbridgeYT sounds like it probably was just a glitch. Thanks for not taking that personally lots of people aren’t aware how the height is calculated.

[@shawnstoik]

you started at a low altitude, so your final RTH was not high enough, set it way higher,

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

The drone went high enough to make it back. It didn't hold this height which is what it should've done. It just kept decreasing in altitude

[@Dartheomus]

DJI products usually go up to the RTH height, fly directly over the landing target, and then descend. This comment makes no sense.

[@andypc14]

@@Dartheomus It does make sense and is relevant on whether you have optimal rth set or not. One options climbs vertical, moves to home, then descends vertically, the other (optimal rth) chooses the most efficient route…

[@Dartheomus]

@@andypc14 Lol, right through walls, trees, and everything else? =P

[@vikramsingh8268]

looks like it was scared of heights ...lol!!!

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

Hahaha I know a few people like that 😂

[@tristanjackman7596]

The drone will be using DTED digital terrain elevation data to know its height. This data is a series of squares of which the size varies depending on what level of DTED is being used. So the drone does not have the granularity to know about that ridge quite likely. You will need to set your RTH height way higher in rolling terrain.

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

The height was set to 50m which takes it way above the terrain for the ridgeline, you can see this at the first point the drone ascends to 50m, it's more than high enough to make it back. The terrain on the two sides of the screen are completely flat. You can watch the drones altitude change relative to those quite easily. At the time it almost crashed the drone was flying at 17m altitude by its own telemetry. This is over 30m lower than it should've been. I had set the height high enough and the drone just didnt maintain the height assigned to it. If it had caried on it would probably register an altitude of around -10m by the time it reached the home point. DJI drones also uses a barometer to measure altidue using air pressure, they don't use DTED.

[@andypc14]

@@JustinBainbridgeYT It would be good to test rth in an area with ridges but no trees. If you took off from the ridge, and set rth at 50m, where was the drone when signal was lost…above the same ridge … or… above a deeper trough…in which case would it not have tried to get to 50m above the base of the trough…which put it at ridge tree height? In your video, that ridge looks distinct from the areas either side of it. Thanks for sharing…I’d be surprised if this were just an Avata characteristic…interesting to see what DJI say, as they know how optimal rth works/was designed I guess, relative to terrain

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

@andypc14 Hi Andy. The terrain shouldn't make a difference as the drone measures all its altitude relative to the take-off off point. Not from the ground beneath it. The drone was above the same ridge yes. It climbs to 50m above the takeoff altitude. These drones are not equipped with sensors that can detect its height above the current ground level. Just relative from the takeoff point. You can see my in depth follow up video that I released yesterday which looks at all the data from the flight logs. There is no optimal RTH on the Avata 2 due to the drone not having any front facing obstacle avoidance. It's just the basic, climb to altitude fly home at that altitude and then land. I've used optimal rth many times on other drones and that tends to fly a gently ascending arc to the halfway point home then start descending towards the homepoint. In this case, the drone just started to descend immediately. My findings point towards this just being a one-off glitch, but time will tell, I guess

[@badboytommy187]

Definitely send that footage to DII . What will happen if you don’t have Dji care then you are total loss..😮 good observing and timing save that drone👍

[@ShermanKenB]

It appears that a broken frame is a DJI Care deal as replacing the frame isn't a diy thing. Best fly nice if you can't get DJI care.

[@BlueDroneBlues]

I had something similar happen once when I was using the motion controller and flying in a Walmart Parking lot at night. Came down and around from a turn and RTH kicked in when I wasn't paying attention. I was 40' away and it just came straight for a little tree between me and the drone. The height didn't change. I had my elevation set to 131' and it was ignored. Might just be a bug of some sort or just rushing to get it air born the drone didn't setup right and just didn't register the RTH I setup. I have a great video footage of it happening. Lesson here really is, Make sure you give the satellites a chance to setup properly and it doesn't hurt to go in your settings on the initial startup and reset the RTH. I probably got it in the air before things could properly setup and it might have given me the glitch. I did do a couple tests of this yesterday and even hit the stop button from manual mode which the Avata 1 has never freaking worked right for me. I wasn't so close these couple times and it lifted up a bit, stopped and faced toward me than continued to rise to the 131' I programed into it.

[@THEEYEINTHESKIES]

I never use the RTH as it’s too slow. Obviously you had no choice there as per disconnect. Lucky you re connected in time 😅

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

Yeah me too I always just fly back manually, but in the inerest of testing everything, I like to make sure it's doing what it should be, haha yep very lucky!

[@Dartheomus]

That definitely seems like a bug in the software. It makes no sense for it to descend before it's over it's target. I only used RTH once so far with the Avata 2, and it was the maiden flight. I was still feeling a bit weird about the controls and lost track of battery usage. It went into RTH mode, and generally acted normal. However, I didn't have far for the drone to go, so I'm not sure what it would have done if it went farther. I just looked closely at my video footage, and it did actually descend just a tiny bit while traveling home, but then it caught itself and leveled off for the rest of the very short trip back. So I don't know?

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

Yeah I think so too. I'm sure I had a low battery trigger RTH when I was testing before, I've just been out again today and I couldn't get it to do auto rth with low battery. I've got an updated video coming very soon with further tests. Maybe auto RTH only activates in normal/sports mode and not in manual. This is turning out to be more complex than I thought

[@kerrymarsh4409]

Oddly enough i had an issue over the other side of that ridge by the river there. my mini pro4 went RTH as the battery was going flat, but I had it on POI subject. and for whatever reason it wouldn't fly with my sticks it was lagging and wouldn't climb over 20 mtrs to where I was and was just swaying side to side as tried to drive it, in the end I emergency dropped it into the bank of the river down there. i was so stressed that I had no real control and just wanted to crash it to recover it before I landed in the water it kept flying across. i couldn't figure out if it was the trees that messed with the RC signal, the GPS or the lave rocks some how reflecting the signal or there was an issue with the POI subject not disengaging and the drone trying to stay on target so it was always cross manoeuvring to keep tracking it once I landed it was unscathered...... although I had given in to it crashing to bits. i recalibrated the drone and the RC2 and it hasn't happened since. but the way it just lost all joystick and went into a slow action lag has kinda freaked me out. i always now stay out of canopy cover and update my home point as soon as it takes off in case its somehow shifts over there in bali ..

[@skywave12]

Likely a firmware development issue that will be resolved with an update. Often when new hardware is released the software it uses lags in development.

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

I would tend to agree for new features, but RTH has been on DJI drones for years, and they know how to do it, this is very bizarre, potentially a faulty unit, but ai don't know. I will do some more testing in the coming days, but after this test, it's risky

[@ALTN8NRG]

Very interesting. There’s another video of the Avata 2 performing Return to Home maneuver which is different from what is normally expected: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIeohnufodiZq9Esi=wsBd_HVbY2NbvBPC You’ll have to look at the 10:55 minute mark to see it. I think the drone will try to mimic its route while returning to home vs. climb to designated altitude and fly straight path home. Is there an option to change RTH behavior like on the Mini 4 Pro?

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

Yep, I've seen that video. Unfortunately, my flight out was nothing like the way it tried to fly back, very strange. Also no option to change rth behavior like the mini. Just one option for RTH and a height to return at

[@elvisbest3213]

Was call the caalibration for compass was done and when it was in the red it did not have enough signal to make it back home on RTH

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

It has plenty of GPS signal, it doesn't need the signal from the radio to rth, it does it automatically from GPS and altitude data

[@sonnguyendang7247]

I have dji mini 4 pro but not avata. I just wonder if the RTH have any sub-mode like the mini 4 pro. Because mini 4 pro has 2 RTH mode: optimal and preset, one of the mode will use the sensor when RTH and try to fly the shortest distance which means it will fly straight toward Home point to make the going-back route the shortest. But there's no way they put that mode into a no sensor drone, right?

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

Yep you're spot on. There's just the preset height on the avata 2. No optimal due to the lack of obstacle avoidance on the drone. Even if it was optimal they normally fly a slowly ascending flight path rather than a slowly descending one. This was going to be at provably -30m by the time it got to me.

[@johnnyfontechanic7556]

Maybe upgrade; install booster signal ?

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

I actually think the signal strength is really good. I was deliberately doing a loss of signal test here 😃

[@johnnyfontechanic7556]

Thank you for videos man, carrying battery bank 27,000 mah 140w, old gopro hero 6, dji mini 4 pro with 6 249g smart batteries on my way to Puerto Rico, ferry to small islands by myself,

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

@@johnnyfontechanic7556 No problem man! Sounds like you're set up to capture some awesome videos. I've never been to Puerto Rico before but I bet it's going to be so much fun! Have a good trip man and capture some sick content! 😃

[@adamvalencia1413]

I just got my first DJI drone and it automatically went into "return to home" when the battery got low and wouldn't let me control it at all! I couldn't even force land it with the land button and it crashed itself into a roof and then a tree before smashing to the ground... day one... is this normal? im so mad rn

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

Hey! Sorry to hear about that! Yes, this is normal behaviour. When you get to a low battery level, the drone will flash a warning in the bottom right corner and then give you a 15-second countdown until RTH kicks in. You have the option to cancel this when it appears and then fly back manually which is the best option if flying indoors. If you're flying indoors on under trees then you need to be keeping an eye out for that message. It's easy to miss if you're focused on flying. It'll come at around 26% battery. Hope this helps. 😃

[@MarcellJjr]

You have angels good catch brotha!

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

Thanks, bro! Yeah, very lucky catch, haha someone was watching over me that day

[@WalleyeHunter]

I had an issue with my mini 4 Pro. I had the max altitude set at approximately 300 feet, however, while I was ascending, it stopped at 93 feet and told me my max altitude has been reached and wouldn’t go any higher. All I did was have it return to home check my settings and then launch again and everything worked fine. and so far the issue was not returned.

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

How bizarre, yeah sometime you get a glitch and maybe this is what happened here. I'll have to do some more tests and see if the issue repeats

[@BlueDroneBlues]

That will happen if you do not give your drone the chance to properly setup with the satellites and setup its precise precision. If you are unsure, it never hurts to also just go into your menu on the initial startup and reset your Home Point before flying. This is a problem with people and new drones that just want to get the drone in the air and go have some fun.

[@roninr8199]

I don't know why avata 2 did not have front obstruction sensors atleast for safety reasons

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

I feel this isn't strictly necessacary as FPV drones generally do fly close to objects. This would be problematic if you were flying indoors in a normal mode and the drone refused to fly where you wanted it to. 😃

[@Tdeo11]

you were flying from a ridge with increasing and decreasing elevations.....it doesnt have front obstacle avoidance. I think you just had a weird set of circumstances. what was the AR return to home path? You caught it before the crash which would happen anyway because you should be monitoring the drone. if you let it crash that would be user error. I think there is more to this. I think it was a perfect storm of poor landscape and situation

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

Increasing and decreading yes but only by 5-10 m hence why I set the height to 50m for RTH. It should've flown way above the ridge and trees to come back to me. The Avata 2 doesnt have optmal RTH like the mini 4 so no AR path. It should just ascend to 50m and hold that altitude until it's above the home point. The drone was over 30m below the stated RTH altitude at the time it wouldv've crashed, with signal only just having barely returned, this was a drone malfunction. I would accept user error if I had set the altitude to 20m. But it shouldve been 30m higher than it was at that point...

[@WindRiderPNW]

There are lots of good comments on this. Could it also have created a flight path in a straight line to you at a down angle, not straight at 50m, then dropping from above.

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

Yep lots of good comments. Potentially however that's not what it's supposed to do. Also at the rate it was descending it would have been way below me by the time it got to me. It was still around 150m away from me at this point. I have done some more testing today, and a follow-up video is coming later today

[@WIHRC]

Interesting video. Was thinking of getting one, and now I'll know what to do before the battery goes out. By the way, was that Campuhan Ridge walk?

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

It's weird because I did a test for low battery triggering RTH and it worked fine. This time was just a signal test, no auto trigger from low battery etc. It was just getting towards the end of the flight 😂 yeah just fly back before just incase. Yep campuhan ridge walk, it's pretty overgrown these days, but still nice

[@WIHRC]

@@JustinBainbridgeYT Seems like some classic DJI stuff. These days they seem to keep releasing products with unfinished features (looking at the DJI Mic 2) and the presentations show none of that. I think I'll wait a bit before I purchase one. It's a shame that it's overgrown but I do remember the walk there when my wife and I were in bali. I thought the art and just the Ambiance were amazing. Still wishing that I what is the near that waterfall at the beginning a little more and explored a bit more but then again that would probably be dangerous.

[@Jcool721]

Good thing is - I didn't fly away! LOL

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

Haha yep that's one good thing. Just tried to park in a tree for good measure 😂

[@ArturMaiaCarvalho]

Low battery make landing faster and deeper angle n

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

I already tried a test where low battery automatically triggers rth, and it works fine. On this flight, I had enough power still, and no auto rth was being triggered. That battery was just getting lower, that's all. The drone didn't try to do a forced RTH before it lost signal. RTH is supposed to hold the preset altitude until reaching the home point

[@SimonsDroneChannel]

Great video.

[@FierySn0w]

That's crazy, do DJI push updates on these things? I'm assuming this a new model and hopefully it gets patched quickly

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

Yeah, they do a lot of update early on in the product lifespan, so hopefully, it's just a bug that gets sorted

[@nyamuk3042]

How do you stop or cancelling it when almost hit tree? Im beginner this dji avata 2 😢. Im afraid huhu

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

Just hit the brake button on which ever controller you are using. Pause button on FPv3 and Lock button on MC3 to cancel RTH

[@KennethVanEps]

Was it on it's way down the same as if it was going to a waypoint(home) so gradually decreasing the altitude of the home point?

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

I did think this but that wouldn't be the case as I was still about 70m further down the path. So it would've gone way below be by that point

[@DRONE-SHOTZ]

Am I the only one having problems with the avata 2 having trouble holding altitude at low altitudes? I def can’t fly low above water or it’s going in for sure

[@ericcote8146]

Did you changed your own location (alttude) , or is there a feature like optimal RTH , like on the DJI mini 4 pro ?

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

There no optimal RTH like the mini 4 pro, probably because this doesn't have obstacle avoidance. Yep I set my rth altitude on location to 50m so it was high enough to come back. And it descended right down to around 17m at the point I hit cancel.

[@ericcote8146]

@@JustinBainbridgeYT Thanks for the explanation ! I’m sure its a blast to fly, but I don’t know why DJI decided not to add this awesome feature (anti-avoidance)

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

@ericcote8146 yeah it's lovely to fly, I've been getting some really nice footage and really enjoying flying it. Yeah, this feature is not one we asked for 😂

[@judeabrigo278]

@@ericcote8146maybe to save some $$ and they know that their target consumers will just disable it to shoot some gaps. But wouldn't hurt if they added it specifically for this types of scenario and to do some smart shooting stuff, but if they did that no one will buy the normal camera drones they are selling 😓

[@FPV_Aerials]

Justin is that firmware is the latest or just stock out of the box?

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

This is the latest firmware, I updated it when I got it out the box just the day before.

[@BigBlack-nq2lj]

There's alot of issues with the new download of the pro 4 mini to.

[@FPV_Aerials]

Tried 4 mini earlier and it was fantastic RTH .. using optimal and yeah dodging those tall building.. I believe avata 2 adopt the optimal RTH of mini 4 ..

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

I haven't updated the mini 4 yet, I was going to try that with the Goggles 3 sometime next week

[@qntum_jim]

You had a low battery warning prior to losing signal?

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

Just a message sating battery is getting low. When the battery gets too low, it'll trigger rth anyway. I'd already tested this and it was working fine. It shouldn't have had an effect on this, it didn't try to do a forced rth or forced landing before this test

[@OpsPt5]

Could it be the enhanced return to home where it flies a shorter route rather than the 50m altitude path then down?

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

There is no option for enhanced RTH on this drone, probably due to the fact it has no front facing obstacle avoidance. I did check for this before testing

[@edowadokaizen]

Which firmware version?

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

The latest version currently. I don't recall the number

[@did3d523]

altitude is speciale in this condition you are on mountan ?? what is 50m from are you in CE or FCC ?

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

I was at 0 and rth at 50m. Drone ascended to 50m the started to drop. The terrain is a ridgeline but not a mountain, and doesn't have much elevation change. The drone was down to 17m when I cancelled rth. I'm in an FCC region

[@TooBarFoo]

Low battery, it's clear before you lost goggle recording. When the battery is low it will reduce altitude. Forcing it back into flight, I guessing that battery pack is pretty degraded now. The on drone algorithm has to make choices and reducing altitude is a safety requirement to protect people on the ground from drones falling out of the sky. Did you not see the warnings? User error not drone error in this case. The safety of people on the ground outways your recovery of the drone. Even fly way protection or DJI Cae would not have covered this lose if it had crashed. You continued to fly out to test signal long after battery warnings started.

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

Hey! When the battery gets too low, it triggers an automatic return to home before a forced landing. I had already tested low battery auto return to home with no issue with a previous battery. It had plenty of battery to make it back in this case and when I got control back it still around 22% battery and enough power that it wasn't trying to return to home automatically or land itself. This is just a message to let you know the battery is getting low. It may have played a part, but I don't believe it did. I was simply doing testing on the product for further upcoming videos. This is a strange result none the less

[@TooBarFoo]

@@JustinBainbridgeYT By default, altitude reduction is set at 20%. You had 2% battery left before it tripped. Again, your priority was getting the drone home, although being 1/2km away with a dying battery brings this into question, DJI's is to ensure the done does not drop on someone's head from 50 meters. You can adjust these levels but you didn't. DJI has many faults, This was not one. It was your user error.

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

@TooBarFoo hey! I have done some more testing today and recreated the same scenario at the same distance and battery level, and it performed the return to home normally. Throttle output is reduced at 18%, and this doesn't have an altitude limitation it just reduces the max throttle to not stress the battery. The RTH was triggered at 25% giving plenty of time to make it back. It only takes around 2 minutes to fly back from 500m. The drone will also try to automatically land at 7% this is a nice smooth landing. It's not really possible for them to just drop out the sky onto someone. I'm not sure what you mean by you can adjust these levels? I can't adjust the battery safety levels only the RTH altitude, which I did to 50m to have a safe flight home.. A follow up video is coming today explaining the other results. Dji also has lots of safety restrictions on their intelligent batteires to stop them being over discharged so it's incredibly difficult to damage one of these batteries. This flight appears to have been just a glitch of sorts, but thanks for your input 🙂

[@TooBarFoo]

@@JustinBainbridgeYTIt's the low battery actio settings you need to change not the RTH setting. Can't recall where they are, If you can't find them I'll have a look. I do run a hacked version of the fly app thought. But if I remember right they have few setting, low battery warning, reduce altitude, RHT and Auto Land, all trigger at different battery levels. The defaults are very high and can all be turned down without risk unless you are far from home point with low battery. It's the reduce altitude battery level the caught you out. Even with adjusted settings, I would not be half a Kilometre from home with 20% battery though, Not in that tarain.

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

@TooBarFoo Hi, you aren't able to adjust low battery conditions in the normal DJI interface. I did some more extensive testing in my new video, but the low battery behaviour is different depending on which controller you use and what mode you are in. It only takes probably 5% power to cover that distance. For me that's within my risk appetite, especially when pushing these machines to their limits to be able to offer the best advice and info to the community. I think if you watch my video from today it will answer a few other questions. Which app are you running? Litchi?

[@chriscapune7873]

Dang!!! Really not good! 👍🐈‍⬛🐾

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

Yep, I was shook when I saw the tree flashing up in the goggles.

[@abricot68]

Fucking product . For sure.

[@user-ws1me1be1w]

@dji FFF...

[@JDDupuy]

You are nothing more than an unpaid DJI Beta tester. Seen 5 crashes on KZbin this past week. Broken plastic.

[@JustinBainbridgeYT]

I'm happy to do tests like this to help the community and the overall product. Hopefully, it results in a better experience for me and others.