I had a very minor accident with the mini2 indoors. Yesterday I updated the firmware and batteries too… I have done this before and notice after the third battery update the drone gets very hot (which I know electronics do not like) …so afterwards I left a lot of room around the drone and just did a lift off intending for a hover (as previously) and it immediately drifted to a drawer… nothing broke, blades etc.
It bothered me today so i thought I’d just try it outdoors to see if it held its position ok as it usually does.
Well… It did and it was quite a calm break in a windy day. So I sent it up and away for a few minutes… video reception to the display was poor and not updating smoothly… pressed RTH and it started coming back… got close to my location and turned sport mode off. Lowered it a little. then the drone drifted away from me… out of sight beyond the rooves of the houses close to me. I pressed RTH again and it did struggle to get its way back… Frightened the life out of me!
on getting it back i noticed the wind had really got up and at my RTH height (100ft) I’m guessing it is more windy up there than ground level.
Just checked the wind speeds locally… 16 mph normal and gusts of 39!
So… with your experience would these gust overcome cinematic mode (power) quite easily?
I have never had (what I thought was at the time) a flyaway. I have found this little thing very stable… So, just another learning lesson?
As you say wind at height is normally more than ground level. I’ve just grabbed a random flight of mine from airdata and this is a typical wind gradient:
Wind profile for my hometown today
Wind : 19 at ground, 37 at 200metres
Gusts: 39 at ground, 54 at 200 metres
In this season you really have to consider your flying altitude
I recently flew my Mini 2 in quite windy conditions
In Normal mode it wasn’t making any progress despite having the stick fully forward - it was actually just drifting sideways. Switching to Sport mode and it was able to handle the wind OK.
Ground level winds were gusting over 30mph, so probably a bit more at 40m where I was flying
Don’t use RTH in windy conditions as it comes back alot slower.
If your finding you have trouble getting your little fella back home sports mode and drop altitude worst case if you have lost LOS tap your map and follow the red line back.
Hello, I’m new to the drone scene. Just got the DJI mini 2 ,you mention updating firmware on the batteries how do you do that,If you don’t mind me asking thank you
If you’re in in a wi-fi area… Home?.. And connect up your Mini 2 the Fly app will detect anything that needs updating. I just did that yesterday and let it go through the update…
Switched off and changed the batteries and let it do the other two I had.
The likely reason it drifted was probably because there wasn’t enough ambient light for the downward facing camera (Vertical Positioning System) to work properly.
