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Hi all,
I do a lot of BVLOS flying with my old DJI Spark - which is natural, since even with very good eyesight anything beyond about 300m is BVLOS with a Spark. I have all the necessary permits for that where I live. With the Spark, I use Litchi for flight planning, hit play and forget about it. It's come back like a good boy every single time (over 100 missions and over 300km flown). Sometimes I lose signal because of buildings (again, all the permits, don't give me grief!), sometimes it's just because I send it far away (2.7km at one point). One time I lost signal and I didn't get the signal back when I was supposed to - I thought I'd lost the bird till I saw it hovering above my head and coming down. I do that with my mind at ease since I know it won't come back from loss of signal while it's doing its mission, but it will interrupt its mission if battery reaches a critical state (and I've found that it calculates battery needed for RTH even if I've lost signal, so it will come back with over or under 30% if it's too far or close enough). So really the only way I'd lose a Spark in a mission is if I plan it badly and it hits something, or if there's a grave mechanical failure (in which case I'd lose it even in VLOS).
Does anyone have this kind of experience with the Anafi? I've only flown mine manually so far but would love to send it on these little missions of mine. Will it keep doing its mission? Will it RTH at a fixed level or would it adjust its RTH level dynamically according to distance? Can I count on it to complete its mission and not just get stuck somewhere and land it there? What other experiences would you share regarding mission planning?
Thanks!
I do a lot of BVLOS flying with my old DJI Spark - which is natural, since even with very good eyesight anything beyond about 300m is BVLOS with a Spark. I have all the necessary permits for that where I live. With the Spark, I use Litchi for flight planning, hit play and forget about it. It's come back like a good boy every single time (over 100 missions and over 300km flown). Sometimes I lose signal because of buildings (again, all the permits, don't give me grief!), sometimes it's just because I send it far away (2.7km at one point). One time I lost signal and I didn't get the signal back when I was supposed to - I thought I'd lost the bird till I saw it hovering above my head and coming down. I do that with my mind at ease since I know it won't come back from loss of signal while it's doing its mission, but it will interrupt its mission if battery reaches a critical state (and I've found that it calculates battery needed for RTH even if I've lost signal, so it will come back with over or under 30% if it's too far or close enough). So really the only way I'd lose a Spark in a mission is if I plan it badly and it hits something, or if there's a grave mechanical failure (in which case I'd lose it even in VLOS).
Does anyone have this kind of experience with the Anafi? I've only flown mine manually so far but would love to send it on these little missions of mine. Will it keep doing its mission? Will it RTH at a fixed level or would it adjust its RTH level dynamically according to distance? Can I count on it to complete its mission and not just get stuck somewhere and land it there? What other experiences would you share regarding mission planning?
Thanks!
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