TEST: What happens if the Phantom 4 loses signal and does not have enough battery to Return To Home?

[@tom95521]

DJI needs to build a drone tanker for in-flight recharging.

[@nikolaikristov1311]

Such an amazing place for drone adventures. Thanks for the inspiration!

[@zohebkhan8515]

I appreciate you doing these test and taking big risks in the process. Definitely deserves a sub

[@Aerialaitch00]

Man, your experiments take real nerve and guts. However, thank you for carrying out and publishing these tests because it really gives people like me an insight to what the capabilities are of our Phantom 4's. Great work, keep them coming.

[@taddmansilla870]

i am enjoying your adventure. thank you for sharing with us

[@craighoward8204]

I wish my Phantom 3 Advanced would do my hoovering...

[@GlenEdwards]

when you were having a hard time to get to the house where you landed, I was thinking, why didn't he take the Phantom controller with him, it has enough battery left to fly it off the roof and over to wherever you are standing! I don't know if I'm right or not, but like you saw, it was still turned on when you got there... so maybe. Love your vids. I sub up now.

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

Yeah, I didn't even try because I thought the battery would be empty anyways. I was surprised to find it still on.

[@TheRepeatloader]

when you completely landed the drone, it shut off... keeping the battery level up. (off but still with power so you can take off again but using little battery)

[@PhoenixCNSTL]

NeverMindYourOwn LOL YOUR PARROT MAKING ME LAUGH!!!😂😂😂

[@johnsonrobins8826]

if you are below 10% you can't take off

[@MartinWillett]

That's just what I was thinking. It had 21 % battery when it landed and lost radio contact. It would have been able to take off (perhaps with a couple of "Are you QUITE sure, the battery is bloody low" messages). Naturally the machine stayed on, it was awaiting the word of command like a good little Red Army soldier! So all he needed to do was get in both radio and flying range and fly it back to his new position overlooking the landing site. Leaving the zoom camera on was genius!

[@GadgetJohn]

Another great insight into what these little drones are capable of doing, and the settings you need to be aware of too. Thanks, can't wait to see if you do make this flight.

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

I'll upload a new video later tonight :-).

[@mrmustangfan]

Great videos . Beautiful area you film in!!! Thanks for sharing!

[@Rudeabaga]

You can select hover in the RTH settings, I believe.

[@bBrain]

Once you get to the location you want to land, set home point to aircraft location, it will set your home point right where the aircraft is and if you do autolanding or lose signal it will land at the new home point!

[@aerialphotographyRDT]

GodFear17 - interesting-and if you do that while hovering 10m above the ground would it not "think" the ground level is there?

[@haltorne6647]

@@aerialphotographyRDT I know I'm a year late but no, the DJI drones use their sensors to land not elevation. :)

[@aerialphotographyRDT]

haltorne.mp4 thanks

[@Jeff-es1yr]

man, Im enjoying your vídeos a lot! You've been doing a lot of things I would like tô do since I was a kid! And I Will keep saying: what a beautiful place! Hope I can visit this Island Someday.

[@-NetGate]

One word "AMAZING"

[@BowzKnows]

Everytime i lose signal with mine i freak out but then i think about what a loss of signal would mean for people working at NASA so it probably doesnt compare haha

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

Ha ha :-).

[@aerialphotographyRDT]

Jebidiah Springfield . Easy to think this way and finding bits of evidence justifying this reasoning. However I think all their projects are indeed true and there are other reasons for why something on the net/tv might not look the way you want it to look. 😀

[@willwright3396]

Great job! I am not that brave with mine yet. But watching you I am ready to start more adventurous flights

[@lanceforrest3634]

your videos are Fascinating and highly entertaining !!

[@rken100]

coolest drone pilot on youtube lol!! nice video

[@erazermedion3387]

That was kind of a adventure by itself,. There are still lots of interesting experiments to do.

[@jimmccandless4307]

Sure miss your videos ! Where are you

[@84npor]

I just subscribed. Amazing videos you are doing. I really enjoy it. Thumbs up from London.

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

Thanks a lot & welcome to the club ;-).

[@manufurry9535]

Hi !! Greetings from Argentina, fantastic video, thanks !!!

[@ezl7052]

That was an interesting test and adventure! The only thing you forgot was to carry along a fully charged battery and when you got to the quad, relaunch the quad with the battery and send it home. :-D I would suppose it would hold the old compass setting? Anyway, it would save from cracking up the quad or falling, and from having a accident climbing around the rough terrain. Real nice scenery and interesting test, thanks for your video!

[@powertool4uau]

No, when you put the new battery in you have no choice, it resets the homepoint to where the aircraft is now! I do consecutive batteries regulary.

[@glazier4766]

This is Great stuff man. I am definitely subscribing to your channel. You are hilarious. Keep'm coming!! You make my day ,Thanks

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

Thanks, I'll keep trying :-).

[@kevincormier6367]

Seriously your holiday home in the middle of Spain are you just like super rich you get to just play with drones all day!! So jealous!!

[@pi9090ki]

Jouw video's...., daar kan geen enkel TV programma tegen op. Geweldig spannend, perfect gemaakt en leerzaam. Dit is veel leuker dan gewoon wat rondjes vliegen. Ik heb part 4 al gezien maar kijk straks nog eens en nog eens. Ben ook geabonneerd. Keep up the good work!

[@jwsl728]

you could set it go back or hover or landing when the battery is low. you could find it .

[@LifeFlight101]

phenomenal test

[@carasca5353]

you can turn off return to home in settings, good video enjoyed it

[@aerianastone3720]

I was just about to tell him that ....then I read this. Glad there is a couple of people out there that knew that besides me. lol

[@lonchodomas]

In my experience with my DJI Spark, when you choose auto-land, then even if it loses contact while it is landing, it continues with the auto-land. Once auto-land has been initiated, it does not try to return home with the loss of communication.

[@vibe808]

Wow you tested the phantom to its limit! Great video

[@aerialphotographyRDT]

Beautiful place - where is this place?very good video

[@slocavky]

After watching this I can't wait to upgrade my 3 standard to the 4. That range is insane.

[@Alainjean127]

It's like owning a DJ4 and pushing it to the limits. Thank you

[@bBrain]

Sir, if you set your homepoint to aircraft location, you don't have to wait your battery out. You could just do an autolanding.

[@powertool4uau]

Very clever!

[@alexboyes3275]

It makes sense for it RTH so then the pilot can regain control and then make a good choice for where to emergency land it.

[@KE6DOA]

i think that WAS very informative..thanks

[@MagnumVideos]

This is one of the most interesting Phantom videos I've seen. Where are you located and why did anyone build houses in that area? Interesting stuff. Subbed you.

[@ramases1]

great experiment, what would have happened if the battery was critical level, would it land itself?

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

Yes, it would.

[@toddspeck9415]

Good test...Answered lots of questions with this test

[@stevebalstone7708]

I wish I had the balls to do something similar with my Phantom3 advanced. But I don't wanna lose it!!

[@salvatorepatterson5611]

I got the same as you, can`t afford to upgrade, so when I lose signal, I have a panic attack. Over 70 flights and never crashed, love my Advanced.

[@blackedout3454]

Same! I just got mine and if I lose it... it’s over for me

[@PKmovie]

This was surprisingly entertaining! Looking to buy a Phantom 4 myself. Looks like an antenna upgrade is essential.

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

I bought the antenna because I got a bad signal at 450 meters flying in a park. But now I know this was because there were like 4 layers of trees in between. Obstacles block the signal. Same with the better antenna. It depends on what type of flying you want to do. You can buy a Phantom here directly from DJI with a discount: click.dji.com/AIK_3nSwENS-aP6XymE?pm=link

[@mountainmanjohns]

Paul Kabata or a DJI Mavic?

[@alexrodrigues3365]

Congratulations for your videos! Very helpful!

[@danielsdecorating3937]

Love these adventure videos, Good job from England

[@skillz2tthemaxx157]

i have a phantom 3 professional and with no range extender ive reached well over 3.3 miles with good signal and still had enough time to return home with no prob

[@stevekaboobiroo1479]

Interesting video, look forward to the follow up.

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

In a couple of hours... :-)

[@stevekaboobiroo1479]

+NeverMindYourOwn Excellent, really looking forward to your follow up. I've never seen anyone carry out an experiment like this before.

[@1fltjponr]

What would happen if you were to fly it to the building, land it, and shut the drone down. Will it start up from that distance to fly it back? I would like to see that.

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

After shutting down the drone, you cannot turn it on from a distance. What you can do is to leave it on, get closer and see if you can connect to it again and launch it.

[@danomeara6107]

just wanted to say I've really enjoyed your videos. I share the same concern about rth functions.

[@jenkins0009]

Another awesome video sir. I will one day have that kind of courage with my Mavic...

[@BillRTube]

Nice video, good adventure. What song is that?

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

Thanks. It's 'Crimson Fly' from the KZbin Free Audio Library.

[@gazo910]

so I'd like to see if its possible to set another homepoint (say on the closer roof) by landing on the way out there then you could retrieve it after it loses signal from there. would be like emergency airfield.

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

Yes, the only thing is that I lost signal after landing and didn't get it back. That might happen and an earlier roof too. But I found out, it's not even necessary to land. You can just hover about a landing point and then set that as a new homepoint in the menu.

[@gazo910]

wow, this could be very useful for people on long distance missions, with proper planning you could use a secure location to retrieve your drone or have it land near a friend. love your videos btw. keep up the good work and ideas.

[@robertworsena4372]

Nice video, very interesting. Thanks, Robert

[@Jack.K96]

3:02 Song name?

[@GavinMufclee]

There a setting for what happens when you lose signal in the Dji app now you can set it to hover rth or land. On my Mavic Pro.

[@prsandiego]

Hello , thank you for your Test. What are the the lens you've used while you were flying the drone?

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

Panasonic HC-V550.

[@Serowman]

crazy ,but a great test none the less , what are the goggles you are using please .

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

:-). All equipment is in the description.

[@stephenclayton999]

NeverMindYourOwn its actually not

[@Serowman]

its not just me that cant see it then.

[@stephenclayton999]

Nope lol

[@djwqijrnuhf]

Best episode yet

[@kentcolby873]

Excellent video my friend. Great test of the Phantom logic. I wonder if you would have landed on the building then took back off then purposely lost signal with low battery if it would have tried to come home or land on the building. I think it considers home to be wherever it took off from last. Would be interesting to test this theory

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

It would have landed on the building again, because it records the home point when taking off. But after landing I lost the signal, because the side of the roof blocked the view/LOS. So I could not have taken off anyways.

[@davisparker259]

Can I have some information about those goggles? I want one

[@7863348]

Well done. Enjoyed it. Subscribed!

[@RobinTorrekensTravelVlog]

So when flying under a bridge it's best to put in on 'hover'? I like your spirit, subscribed!

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

Totally depends on the situation and your position. But when you think you may loose signal UNDER an object, for sure you do not want it to ascend! If I had to fly under a bridge, I'd position myself in such a way that I have LOS before, under and behind the bridge. Maybe when I go up and the bridge may come in between, I might lose signal, but then it would ascend and fly back OVER the bridge. See this video where I actually do fly under a bridge: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ooarXqBqe7tjm9k

[@RobinTorrekensTravelVlog]

I understand and your video made that clear, thank you. Greetings from Belgium where drone laws are '???'

[@alexgalkin3080]

Hi, great job! What App do you use to connect VR glasses to PH4? Thanks in advance

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

You'll need to install a DJI HDMI module on the transmitter for that. No additional app needed.

[@NerdThingsAndMore]

as you got closer it it you should have regained signal and just took off and flew it back to you instead of climbing up there.

[@pomadom]

Hello What app do you use to record screen great videos

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

In that situation it was ADV screen recorder. But nowadays I use NVIDI Shield K1 with built in screen recording. See description for details BTW.

[@pomadom]

thanks Im vey happy with my drone 4 pro too

[@pomadom]

Many Thanks for your help I really enjoy your channel Regards Bill from New Zealand

[@bluecoraly]

have you determined the height the drone becomes quite ?

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

Not really actually. I just send it up until it cannot be heard so load anymore. Didn't pay attention to how much that actually is. But let me check on one of the vids... Well, the one at the beach with the fishing boats... it's at some 40 meters when I put on the goggles, so that seems to be a good altitude.

[@rafaelgollach74]

ur one crazy guy haha I love it keep up the great work

[@cirkutmedia]

When the drone started retuning the second time you lost signal, all I could think of is South Park's "Screw you guys, I'm going home" hahaha

[@joshk4402]

Great test, very helpful. Can I ask what type of Samsung tablet you are using? (and does it have gps?). I use my iphone6+ currently but I would like something with a bigger screen? (I also have a standard ipad but it's too big to be practical). Thanks if you can help

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

It's Galaxy Tab A. Works perfect, but for me I'd like to have another one, because the screen recorder does not render 25 fps on it. But if you don't want to use that, it should be fine.

[@jjeei]

Hi, good video !!! I have one question for you. If Phantom 4 lose the signal. Should it return to home ?

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

The safest option is to set it to Return To Home. If you have also set the Smart RTH option on, it will even avoid obstacles when it returns. The most important thing is that when it tries to RTH, at some point you will get the signal back and then you can cancel the procedure and keep doing what you wanted to do. If you lose signal and you told it to hoover, you may never get the signal back if you are not in a position to move around to get a good line of sight again. Then it will run out of battery at some point and automatically land just where it is. In most cases that is not desirable. Only in special rare cases like mine, where I want it to fly from A to B and not return, you may want to set it differently.

[@railtom]

Great drone videos... 👍🏻👍🏻 I‘m lovin it 😀

[@R1ght2it]

Well done! Where is this?! Looks nice :)

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

Tenerife on Canary Island. Officially Spain, but it is near African coast.

[@TheLandbo]

Congratulations on the found RTH setting. The settings are actually described in the manual to your quad. ;-) Regards Leif.

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

Have you read the entire manual before your first flight? I'd rather go out there and fly and see what I run in to ;-).

[@TheLandbo]

Normally, I look at the table of contents through and read the sections I will use the information from. If I doubt later, I will read it in the manual. The entire manual is actually on your tablet as a PDF file in academy and can be read from the DJIGO4 program if you have downloaded it it once. So you do not even need a paper edition with you or access to the internet. Regards Leif.

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

Me reading manuals doesn't make interesting videos... ;-).

[@TheLandbo]

That is correct. ;-D

[@kse36]

nice video!! i love that kind of tests.

[@theosaurus]

Love your videos! Subscribed!

[@TheOnlyTakia]

Your profile pic had me thinking it was a piece of hair on my phone lmao, good one

[@thomaskolb8785]

This is as fun as watching a TV show. You are so calm and relaxed, I would be too nervous!

[@richtdronz6507]

Great video!! This video is the reason I just purchased a p4p..thanks

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

Oh wow. Nice. Happy flying :D.

[@sebastian_philippinen]

Did you ever tested what the drone does if you loose signal after pressing the landing button? Will it RTH or continue landing?

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

It will RTH!!!

[@sebastian_philippinen]

NeverMindYourOwn thanks for the answer 😊

[@gebarr474]

I will buy a p4 soon, great video and great adventure, keep going!!!

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

Great! You can get it with a discount here: goo.gl/Mgcdfk

[@briancourtice2858]

You could have briefly landed on the far building when you first arrived there. It would reset your home point. Great video. I admire your willingness to risk your expensive phantom for the sake of experimentation.

[@BowzKnows]

also im pretty sure you can set teh home location on the map in the app

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

Nah. I looked at it and tried, but you can only set the home position to the CURRENT location of the aircraft, or your own CURRENT location (if you have GPS on your device).

[@anthonyklinger8669]

Great Video keep up the great adventures l have the p4 to great machine I like to see the 8k run good luck

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

Thanks. With support of my subscribers I will continue ;-).

[@motivationempower]

You start with 65% battery, why you didn't charge your battery for example 95% ??

[@marsdrums6298]

I heard my notification at 0:23 :) Heh, that bird. :)

[@zohebkhan8515]

Check your gps on dji go while connected to the controller. It will give you the last detected location or the detected location if it is on.

[@kahleedurdenproductions1999]

Dude why not get a GPS for your drone? It beats losing it. Am I right?

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

The DJI Go app has a flight log, so you can always determine the last position (while you still had signal). If you lost signal, it most likely is where you lost the signal or really nearby.

[@formattester6]

very interesting video and good info to know.

[@szymekw]

Great job. Keep posting!

[@aerianastone3720]

Like other people said. Just turn off return to home toggle. Keep up the interesting videos.

[@gtdrone21]

Crazy test , I don't trust to land my quad any other place some one can see it and stole the quad , Nice test and video :)

[@mygiguser]

Entertaining video. Keep on going.

[@glazier4766]

when you take off, go into the app where you can change your home point. There you can set a new home point wherever you want on the map. Works great, I have done this. No problem

[@Bob3519]

Is this in Spain? It looks alot like like the terrain in Southern California and Northern Mexico.

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

Officially it is Spain, but these are volcanic islands, like Hawai.

[@NerdThingsAndMore]

if its RTH and hit 10% battery it will self land even if it has no signal.

[@ste9474]

What music is that? It's amazing but Shazam is giving me the wrong track

[@alanc3215]

Ste Richards game livet bort

[@TyLorenz]

What are your camera settings

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

Auto and True Color, with a polarizer filter.

[@TyLorenz]

Thanks. maybe you can make a video on your video settings?

[@NikosGogosChannel]

if it starts to return to home and you don't press cancel what will happen? will it crash or land when battery is dead?..i think thats the question

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

It will return to home and when it thinks it only has enough battery for landing, it will start to land. You can still move the drone a little bit during this operation, but you can not ascend anymore. You can hover by holding the 'ascend'-stick fully upwards.

[@NikosGogosChannel]

Thanks man!

[@TVseriesman]

how do you make your real time display such high quality? is it because it's through the goggles?

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

No, I overlay the real footage on top of it.

[@psord1]

can i have a link l to your signal booster on the controler please?

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

Should be in the description. itedbs.com

[@SteenPedersen]

Surprise, it does what you tells it to. If you have set it to go home, it will go home. If you tells it to land - it will land :-) But funny video and nice area you are flying in.

[@CompanySoulNYC]

he's got some balls.... after a while it says, "returning to home", and he responds with "stupid thing".... hilarious

[@pate10solowco]

its CE or FCC ?

[@NeverMindYourOwn]

This is in Europe.

[@XS1GOLIATH1]

seing this i really want a phantom4