What Happens if a DJI Controller Dies Mid-Flight?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 มี.ค. 2017
- In this video I test multiple scenarios of what would happens if your phone ever drops connection with your drone's WiFi, or your controller shuts off mid flight. What could possibly go wrong?
SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN ASKED MULTIPLE TIMES:
Q: Why did the drone just land when it was closer to you but then RTH when it was further?
A: As I had not known this when making this video (and found out through commenters later), whenever the drone is within 66ft (20m)...it will just land where it is currently hovering at. However, if the drone is further from the controller than 66ft (20m), the drone WILL RTH back to the set home point. Hope this clears things up for people.
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* In Depth Look at the DJI Phantom 3 Controller Modes - • In Depth Look at the D...
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Lands perfectly....car runs it over. (0) (0)
I WOULD HAVE BEEN SO MAD
TheCatsa lol facepalm.
You seem like a great kid. Good job on your detailed vids. You have a very interesting channel. Subscribing.
TheCatsa i was about to say that lol
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2:42 would suck if it lands in the street 😂😂
Love your videos. I'm trying to get better at my skills and take droning more seriously. Your content has shown me things I never knew before and I've had the P3S for almost a year. Keep up the great work.
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Excellent video. I just got a Phantom 3 but have not yet taken it for it maiden flight. You answered several questions that I had. Thanks.
Thank you! Also you'll have lots of fun once you can!! Fly safe:)
I have the Phantom 3 std with ARGtec signal range booster.
I'd newer had any flyaway, i always set the home point, i normally fly in atti mode, but just change to gps mode if i cant see the phantom in the sky. Has been in the air hundreds og hours, everywhere, over the sea, lakes, rivers and forests.
Never any problem.
Go to the beginning of the video and turn on auto captions, trust me it’s worth it 😂
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Your videos really help me know how to fly my phantom 3 standard. You are like my tech support whenever I need to know something. Thanks man!
You have some really great videos man!
Glad you landed your Phantom in the driveway...that car pass was perfectly timed.
Great and really helpful video! Just what I need to learn and be familiar with my new drone before flying.
I glad you found this video helpful:)!
Thanks Carson. Your videos are well planed and helpful. I subscribed and look forward to your next vid...
Thank you so much Dale! I'm glad you liked the video and some of my other videos also:) Also, thank you for subscribing!!
Love your videos, very informational thankyou for all the great videos!
You the real MVP!
i always do these sort of tests when I get a new drone, same as I'd do when I get the P3, but now thanks to you I already know what happens!
thank you! great video :)
Thank you!! Also no problem:)
Hey man I like your stuff keep up the good work and I am going to subscribe
Thank you so much:)!
Thank you! exactly what I wanted to watch!!!
No problem!!
These videos are great man. I don't even own one of these yet. So helpful!
Would you recommend the Phantom Standard? I'm likely to purchase one soon.
Thank you so much!! Also- if you are just starting out and getting your first drone...it will definitely get you started out and it's a great first drone! However, if you have the money I would definitely recommend going up to a newer phantom model such as the DJI Mavic (due to its portability and ease of use also). Either way, pretty much any DJI drone higher than the standard will suffice and you should be happy with any choice you make!! Hope this helps you in some way:)
When you do that to a Xiaomi drone, it will return back to China
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Zàijiàn = or Goodbye, my drone!
awesome videos mate well done...
Great video. Very informative.
Enjoying your videos brother! Quick question... when you lose connection and/or controller shuts off, does the drone auto return home at the most recent altitude you set it at, or will it fly lower and potentially crash in to something? thanks man, JB
Great job on the video. Answered a lot of questions I had.
Thank you so much! Also, I'm really glad I was able to help you out!!
That’s a great video and comforting to know. Thanks.
I am finally getting one and your video are super helpful!!! :)
You'll have a great time with it once you get it! Also, I'm glad you have been able to find them helpful:)
Love your tutorials :D detail and easy to understand guideline for beginners :D cheeerrr
Thank you!!
Very informative video! Good job.. thanks
Thank you! And also no problem haha
Things I've never said "I'm going to fly my drone over to my basketball court"
thank you for sharing, awesome videos!!
No problem and thank you very much!
great video man! Can i ask what is your main camera you use to film this?
Haha interestingly enough, I filmed this entire video on an iPhone 7+ in 4K :). Some of my other videos I shoot also on the iPhone 6s in 4K!
for real? dude i need to start using my 7+ more , any colour grading or just raw?
Yes!! Honestly I love the way the video looks from the iPhone 7+ and it's the main reason I haven't bought a dedicated camera yet for filming although I really need to invest in one xD. Also, nope I don't ever color grade any of my videos because 1.) I suck at color grading lol and 2.) it's a lot more work for when the video already looks great:)
Hey Carson! I'm looking to purchase my first drone, and I am wanting to get a refurbished Phantom 3 Standard for $330 direct from DJI. After owning this drone for a while, would you say it's worth it?
Nice job on videos and instructions.
Thanks!
Hey man, great video! I have just got a phantom 3 advanced and I was wondering if when I'm flying I'm trying to go down and I hold the stick all the way down, will it just drop out the sky no matter the highs due to the csc?
Thank you Louis! Also, no, the propellers wont shut off when pulling the left stick all the way WHEN IN THE SKY. However, when you HIT THE GROUND and pull the left stick down all the way, the propellers WILL shut off, which that is how you manually land any DJI drone:). Hope this helps!
Perfect. Just what i needed to know. Thanks.
No problem Nigel!
Good info dude!!
Thank you!!
Good vid. I always wondered about that.
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Hi Carson is this the same with the Mavic Mini? I believe it is as I know it behaves the same way when I lose signal in the distance when I push too far. When re-established I hear the RTH beeping and the drone is on it's way back.
Thank you for this info always wonder what would happen it this happens......
Now you know:)
hi carson great vid
1 question while in flight say the drone is really low on battery half a mile away will it force a return to home conserving just enough power to get to you or does the battery die in flight without attempting to come home?
You can change in settings at what battery % the drone returns to home at and it will automatically return to home when the drone is at that set battery percentage. Though, it won't return to home in accordance to how far the drone is from home and how long it thinks it will take to get home...that's up to you, the flyer!!
Thank you very very much for this info!!! No I know what my p3se will do in all these cases.
again good info man, old man
Awesome! I am a new flyer and had these ?'s. Thanks
Awesome video, thanks
I like your videos.keep it up
Thank you!
You can set the SMART RTH setting in the app to return to home, land, or do nothing and hover. Make sure its set the way you want it before flying.
Yeah I definitely should have mentioned this in the video...I definitely will if it ever makes sense any other times in another video:)
Great vid! but i have a question, how precise is the "Return to home" feature? Does is lands exactly in the same spot were it took off? Thank you and keep uploading!
I'm not quite sure. It seems pretty accurate within ~3 feet...this seems to be a great upcoming video idea :D
Carson Miller its pretty close. although the p3s just had the one gps antenna while the p3a/p have 2 so they're more accurate.
Carson Miller in the settings you can choose to have it rth, land straight down, or hover.
lbk The new Magic pro is much smaller, foldable, and it will return to home within 1 meter of the takeoff point.
V3MD the mavic has vps, although idk how that would help RTH, but there are ways to make DJI phantoms to return to home much more accurately
Very very useful.....cheers.
I'm glad it helped!
that's good to know. My drone just straight up falls out of the sky if the remote shuts off
Hi, great video but what happens if only the signal of the FPV shuts off, are you still be able to press the RTH button in the app? Because there is no RTH button on the controller.
Thank you very much
No problem!
Carson, I would like to hear your thoughts on what my phantom 3 did..... I lost connection at 1600' when I turned it for a view of the ocean. It quickly gave me a unable to return home on the screen. I did chase it and get a few seconds of control but to no avail it would not return home. My questions is this..... I have the last place it was on my tablet but it was 1600' high when this happened, would it have landed when I lost connection or continued on its 3-5 mph drift after it did so. It was a clear malfunction and DJI blames the "wind" they say it blew it away and that it couldn't descend because the wind also blew it up, a complete line of BS. Anyway I am trying to locate it and even purchased another to search for it although this time the SE for more range.
What do you think, I have doubled the distance from where it was last located (at 60%) gives me then the descend for landing. The path was straight as an arrow before I completely lost contact..... Thoughts???
Hey Carson! I wanted to ask you... In my smartphone screen when I hace de DJI APP on, why can't my google maps load? I have a Phantom 3 Standard but all I see is the beige screen with a grid, no map... Can you help me?
Hi Carson, I have just bought a P3 Standard and hooked onto WiFi and the app connected, but when I picked it up and moved it to take off from another position, it lost GPS connection, I took it back to the first position and it reconnected to the GPS signal again, I moved it several times, and it kept disconnecting, any Ideas, oh, and thought to say what a great channel you have, cheers.
Nice video ! but i have a question : Do we need to set the home point every time we start a fly or it set himself ?
I'm planning on making a video sometime soon testing the accuracy of the home point/RTH and this would be a great thing to add to that video...but to answer your question currently, yes it does set the home point automatically. As in: every single time you take off, the drone sets the home point automatically and in fact if your phone volume is up...the app tells you by saying, "The home point was updated. Please check it on the map"
Carson Miller thanks man !
No problem Alexis!!
I'm thinking of buying this drone to get cool footage on trail (10+ jeeps) but my question is... does the return to home feature return to the drones start point or the controllers last known position?
That you would really cool footage right there:). For me I have it set to return to the start point but I believe it is possible to change this in settings to the controllers last known position.
Thank you sir for sharing
Did you have any wind while flying? I thought it was interesting how the drone stayed hovering as if it was in GPS mode (which requires a phone I think) even thought the phone wasn't connected via DJI Go
I think there was some wind but not too much at the time
I have a helicopter and if the controller dies or its out of range while it's flying it will go up and never stop lol
SkateBoarderPT RBLX You gotta set failsafe. So when that happens it'll shut its motors off.
Oh my😬
SkateBoarderPT RBLX is it a parrot drone?
Same lol;)
You probably set your RTH altitude to something really high. When the failsafe kicks in, it will ascend the drone to the RTH altitude that you define in the settings. It's meant so that once you lose connection, it will immediately start flying up, THEN come back to the home point and descend so it doesn't hit any trees on the way back. 90 meters (~300 feet) is recommended for the RTH altitude, in my experience. However, if you're in a mountain range, or places where there are extremely tall buildings, it may be a safer idea to set it to 300-500(max) meters. Even though you will technically be breaking the law for a couple minutes, you will probably get your bird back in one piece.
Luv u man 🔥🔥
Did you set Any settings for this or it is automatic?
does it have a return to home on controller to? just in case your phone breaks or something?
Yep you can simply initiate the drone to RTH from just the controller by flipping the left hand switch on the controller (S2) up and then down once and it will begin returning to home.
when the return to home activates and you're out from your starting point does the drone have a set altitude or can you set a set altitude to have it return to home in case you have varying obstacles?
It has a set altitude that you can adjust in settings by going and clicking on the three little dots in the top right-hand corner, then click on the top tab that looks like a mini drone, scroll down and you'll find a box with a set altitude in meters labeled "Return-to-home Altitude." I have my RTH altitude set to 50m which is plenty enough to clear all trees and power lines where I live but may differ depending on where you're flying. Hope this can help you out:)...Also I would suggest checking out my video called "HOW TO FLY A QUADCOPTER/DRONE FOR BEGINNERS" where I give some other tips and tricks that you may not have known of.
Good video which takes me to my question. Have you ever flown it completely without your iPhone or any device? The reason why I ask is because I go flying with a mate who has the DJI phantom 2 or the one previous to the 3 standard. Once we find a nice spot there is always an issue with my phantom 3 standard such as: batteries cold, magnetic field,no signal not enough satellites ecc. He just puts the batteries and off he goes flying WITHOUT any problems! So needles to say it becomes a bloody nuisance! I would rather fly it without my iPhone but don't know how. Help!!!
Carson miller: I bought my dji 3 standard yesterday I charged the batteries on both drone & controler, updated firmware all went really smooth, i think by the time i had updated everything had a play on the simulator the battery level was down to 84%. The weather here in the uk is really wet so dont think i will get to get my first flight for a few days, Would i have to discharge my battery for the drone and recharge before my first flight. By the way i find your videos very helpful great work & thank-you.
Thank you so much! Also, to answer your question of discharging the battery before your first flight...I don't believe you need to do that but I would highly suggest charging the battery back up full to 100% because the flight time will seem very short when you are actually flying! (only around 20 minutes) Have fun flying!!
great video thanks a million
Your welcome:)
Yo carson can we still use the dji go app without the gimbal/camera because the camera is still on repair.
I hope you could reply it will help alot my dude!
How does it know where is home? Is it automatically from where it took of you you have to set something up from the app
Whoa! Be careful of those power lines dude!
Yeah I was flying pretty close in this video which I typically don't...whoops! I'll try and avoid them more next time:)
Carson Miller hey how much does that drone cost
The Phantom 3 Standard lists for $499
which things or kind of problems in drone can make you afraid ! for example sometimes are brids in the sky and the can make problems for drone !
can you tell me another problems which you have afraid of it !?
My S1 switch broke off, are those repairable?
I have a question... I'm going to buy phadom 3 standard but I'm going to buy it with the 4k camera...Will the 4k camera effect the battery life?
I'm not sure :/ It shouldn't make that much of a difference it will probably still be around 20 minutes which is what I get typically
You have setup the RC Signal lost to landing. There are three options in dji go app. RTH, Landing and Hover.
Awesome, that has also been a big question of mine.
Suppose i want to add some load, how much weight the drone can carry?
Hmmm I've never weight tested the drone before...maybe that's a good upcoming video...? ;)
dude you are really good at making vids on TH-cam...i bet you will be famous one day...
Thank you so much! If I do happen to become famous someday you'll definitely be the first to have predicted that :D
Whoa that's a nice basketball court! Lol
Haha thank you!
This is awesome
the issue is what if the drone is far away so you can not see it? im this case only the rth button will help you.
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Hey thanks for doing that!
No problem :)
Subscribed & a nice Video. I have a Phantom 3 SE that flys for a minute and falls to the ground after the motors stops suddenly. Camera was damaged a while ago so i removed it and the gimble is stil connected to the drone properly secured and wired. Is there a fix for this or is this a common problem or is it because the the camera is detached. Any help from anyone would be fantastic.
You actually don't need your phone after it connects... Also don't be fooled about it returning to home. If you go below the level you first set your home point (like if you was on a mountain and travel lower than it's home position) it will sit your craft in the middle of nowhere. or if you are walking along with it and change the battery, remember where you changed that battery, because it will update at that very point and you will make it all the way home and the battery will die and it will leave you and you will be exhaustively chasing it down the road. Yeah, I'm glad I had on some good running shoes..
xD the home point updates every time you take off with your drone as long as you have your phone connected. The DJI Go app makes sure to let you know that haha
Make sure before you fly to let the drone register to home location because my drone got disconnected from the controller and it crashed near by i found it by luck and it took just a little damage but the battery was completely broken but still on
You're vedio's are good 😁
Hello Carson - I have a phantom standard trying to connect thru wifi - the instructions tell me to choose PHANTOM3_XXX. However something else comes up instead. What comes up is as follows phantom3_Oc8a95THIS WILL NOT CONNECT. WHAT NOW?
what does drone do in low battery condition. I know it probably gives visual warning . Say you went to can for 5 mintues, and baterry started to get critically low , does it return on own or????
You can set the % at which your drone returns to home in settings but I believe the default is at 15% the app notifies you the battery is getting low and then at 10% it returns to home and auto-lands but this can of of course be changed give or take in the settings.
Actually, at 10%, (No less), it auto lands. You can then only correct the area of touchdown.
2:43 I though the car would hit the drone for a moment.
+1 Sub
It does look like that xD. Also thank you:)
do you have to have a smart phone, or will it record video without??
Nice tutorial
Thank you very much!
How your video footage and sound is excellent? I am working hard mine one to be better, even not close to you. What type of camera you did use in this video as well as external mic?
In this video, I only used an iPhone 7+ shooting in 4K and the audio is from the iPhone 7 as well. This video is a great example of just showing that you don't need incredibly fancy equipment to make successful videos :).
You did not use any external microphone?
Surprisingly, nope! I do in more recent videos use the Røde VideoMicro though for clearer audio!
You rock lov your vid
It lands itself if you hit RTH 20 meters or less from the home point. If you hit RTH when you are far away, it will return exactly at the home point
Someone else mentioned this in another comment and I wish I could have brought this up in the video if I would have known!
I just bout my first phantom 3 standard and just out of the box the video is lagging is any fix for this
Are you using Android? Many commenters have commented on other videos of mine saying that the Android version of the DJI Go app isn't as supported as the DJI Go app on Apple devices:/. Also, it could depend on the WiFi chip in your phone and how old the phone is.
Carson Miller can you so how to set DJI phantom 3 standard go 6000 Feet
Legal sua filmagem, também fazemos algumas com drone, mt legal
It Calming to know what will actually happen if you disconnect from the Remote Control (RC)
so you don't have to panic when you disconnect 🙏😊
Does the wifi to fly those drones cost money outside of a subscription for home wifi ?
what if it does lose signal and RTH kicks in what alt will it go to? last set RTH alt or factory setting??
It goes to a set RTH altitude that you can change in settings:)
thanks I wasn't sure.
Wow that was amazing
2:42 Good job it didn't land on the main road, pretty close man.
Haha that wouldn't have been good if it did xD
Can't you change it in the settings, like what to do if losses connection?
Hmm I think you can
i only have my drone for a few days but i never have to connect my phone wifi to the drones wifi.. i just plug in the wire and turn on the app.. Am i missing something??