Does my mavic have super drone strength?

General Drone Discussion
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Ok, I’m on holiday up north and it’s coming to an end and as the weather has been ridiculous I’ve not had chance to get out with any gear. However this afternoon there was a lull in the rain and it gave way to a decent sunset. So I checked out the nats app to make sure all was ok territory wise and up went the drone.

However a couple of minutes later I was traveling over the hills and noticed that the wind was taking the drone when I wasn’t holding onto the controls, no issue I thought, I expected as much, so before letting it get too far I thought I’d bring it back.

So I turned it back on itself and towards me and but started to get a bit concerned when I noticed the distance reading was creeping higher and higher despite me giving it full beans in sport mode. I didn’t want a flyaway situation if I could avoid it so I faced the camera down and looked for a safe/decent enough place to access to land the drone. I found a playing field and went to land it by a set of goal posts, figuring I could just leave it sat there and take my phone with the map still active on the app. However as I dropped it to the floor it lost its signal and it poohed itself and went to return home mode by itself. At this point I panicked thinking that if it tried to return home it’l just get swept further away, however despite how it reacted to my controls originally, or rather didn’t, it shot straight back to the take off point with no issue whatsoever.

So my question is does the mavic motors even in sports mode save more juice in reserve for situations like this where they fight against stronger winds? There was a wind warning but it wasn’t any windier than a lot of the weather I’ve flown in before. Or is it possible that there was just a glitch between controller and drone that simply ignored my command to fly in the direction I chose?

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Without looking at the flight data from the drone, you will not be able to tell what has happened.
At least it got back to the take off point.

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If this was the case then I can’t see how Sport mode would’ve failed to fight through the wind. I’m guessing there was some sort of glitch. Flight logs will tell you more.

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Ok guys, thanks. I’m assuming I’ll need pc connection to get that data?

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It sounds like the drone thought you were trying to fly into an NFZ and perhaps that’s why it wasn’t returning through command however on the RTH perhaps it ignores the NFZ rule ???

However as said flight logs will explain and not leave to speculation.

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That would make sense, kinda like satnavs that don’t like you driving passed gun ranges. But on my app there was only a caution site which was a primary school and it was way past kick out time and the drone wasn’t close to it.

I have to admit I’m a bit confused and just trying to go over what actually happened in my head, as I’ve never had this happen before and although panic was only there for a split second when I first noticed the issue and I soon got the camera downwards to see exactly where I’d be going if I was to ditch it there and then, it was how the drone reacted after that provided the brown trousers moment!