the Dronelink mission aborts
Hello my friends. I have a question about the Dronelink and Mavic mini. The Dronelink program is great in itself! Today I flew the fourth time with the waypoints missions, it was 6 minutes 4 seconds, and at 4 minutes 20 seconds, the Dronelink mission aborts, the display came up (Mission stopped Waypoint D, although I didn't even have the D Waypont in my flight plan. Mavic stopped in the air.I repeated with Play, Mavic flew to the last (marker) 100 meters, repeated the last piece to marker and stayed in the air again after 4 minutes 20 seconds. I got Mavic back with the RTH button on the controller
I fly with Iphone 8
.https://app.dronelink.com/lutz-arthur/bagersee-egenstein/plan/0mnvBwhHwDM8T5dSWyBe
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The disengage reason was "Drone Too Far Off Course: D 23 m". This means the flight path deviated more than the plan settings would allow so Dronelink automatically disengaged the mission. You can read this article to understand more and find potential solutions:
https://support.dronelink.com/hc/en-us/articles/360052533153-Why-does-the-drone-fly-off-course-or-make-jerky-movements-during-certain-mission-plans-
Continuing from the question here.
The plan has motion error tolerance settings here:
After looking at your plan, I noticed that you set the default speed to almost 30mph, which the mini will not be able to accomplish, or even if it gets close, not with any level of precision. You need to fly slower or increase the error tolerance ranges.
Jim - how does that overall Max speed affect the ability of the drone to deal with the wind if at all? I sometimes set it really high thinking a low speed may limit the ability of the mini to stay in course as this drone is really susceptible to the wind and I control the speed with markers, but maybe that is not necessary? I am now thinking based on your comment here, that the lower the overall speed the easier for the drone to stay within the error tolerance, is that correct?
Lower speeds reserve more of the performance envelope for countering the wind, you are correct.
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