Mavic Air 2 won't fly left or right

[beachcomber]

When I tested the controls of my Mavic Air 2 before flying this morning, it wouldn’t fly left or right. All other controls worked fine. I landed the drone and rebooted it and the controller but no success. I then tried switching to Tripod Mode and the left and right controls were restored, but stopped again when going back to Normal Mode.
I examined the flight data when I came home and noticed that the drone had gone into “Detour” mode.
I couldn’t find anything in the User Guide, does anybody know what’s causing this?

[ChrisM]

This happened to me the other day following an upgrade. It sounds like sideways movement is disabled and can easily be restored in the Fly App settings.

[PingSpike]

@beachcomber this post last week from Barry @BCF might hold the answer.

Have a read:

"Schoolboy Errors"

I’ve just spent 3 hours sorting out my “schoolboy error”. Earlier this afternoon I updated the DJI Fly app (Android) having read and viewed a few positive comments, and updating my Air2S to the latest firmware. Went out to do a test flight and discovered that the Air2S would not roll left or right. So I did a similar test on my Mini2 - no issues! It’s got to be a faulty Air2S firmware update issue I convinced myself . I uninstalled the Fly App and installed a slightly earlier version - still no…

[beachcomber]

Thanks, I did wonder if it was the recent firmware or DJI Fly updates.
his did happen to me once in mid-flight. I did a RTH and the problem disappeared.
I’ve also e-mailed DJI .

[beachcomber]

Thanks very much.
I changed the safety setting from avoid to brake and the left/right control was restored.

[Mouldy]

There is (or was) another setting if you scroll further down, to disable sideways flight. You should be able to reset that and still allow obstacle avoidance as well.

[beachcomber]

Thanks, I’ll do that.

[Nidge]

I wouldn’t call @BCF experience a schoolboy error on his part. No one should expect a firmware update to impede the control of a drone… but it is DJI so we should be used to expecting the unexpected.