TEST: What happens if the Phantom 4 loses signal and does not have enough battery to Return To Home?
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- Опубліковано 10 сер 2024
- My Ultimate Range Test - Part 3
After my first failed attempt to travel 8kms with the Phantom 4 to my holiday home and land it on the terras there, I want to try it again, but I want to be sure how it will behave if the signal gets lost AND it does not have enough battery to return to home anymore.
So I test this by hovering above the roof of an abandoned shed and then get the signal blocked by a big building.
Eventually I have to land on the roof and retrieve it again. But that turned out to be a lot more difficult than I expected!
part 1: • My Ultimate Range Test...
part 2: • FAIL: Phantom 4 losing...
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DJI needs to build a drone tanker for in-flight recharging.
Such an amazing place for drone adventures. Thanks for the inspiration!
I appreciate you doing these test and taking big risks in the process. Definitely deserves a sub
Great videos . Beautiful area you film in!!! Thanks for sharing!
Another great insight into what these little drones are capable of doing, and the settings you need to be aware of too. Thanks, can't wait to see if you do make this flight.
I'll upload a new video later tonight :-).
Man, your experiments take real nerve and guts. However, thank you for carrying out and publishing these tests because it really gives people like me an insight to what the capabilities are of our Phantom 4's. Great work, keep them coming.
I wish my Phantom 3 Advanced would do my hoovering...
i am enjoying your adventure. thank you for sharing with us
Jouw video's...., daar kan geen enkel TV programma tegen op. Geweldig spannend, perfect gemaakt en leerzaam. Dit is veel leuker dan gewoon wat rondjes vliegen. Ik heb part 4 al gezien maar kijk straks nog eens en nog eens.
Ben ook geabonneerd. Keep up the good work!
man, Im enjoying your vídeos a lot! You've been doing a lot of things I would like tô do since I was a kid! And I Will keep saying: what a beautiful place! Hope I can visit this Island Someday.
your videos are Fascinating and highly entertaining !!
Great job! I am not that brave with mine yet. But watching you I am ready to start more adventurous flights
Congratulations for your videos! Very helpful!
Good test...Answered lots of questions with this test
phenomenal test
Wow you tested the phantom to its limit!
Great video
Another awesome video sir. I will one day have that kind of courage with my Mavic...
Love these adventure videos, Good job from England
Great drone videos... 👍🏻👍🏻 I‘m lovin it 😀
nice video!! i love that kind of tests.
Nice video, very interesting. Thanks, Robert
Well done. Enjoyed it. Subscribed!
Great video!! This video is the reason I just purchased a p4p..thanks
Oh wow. Nice. Happy flying :D.
just wanted to say I've really enjoyed your videos. I share the same concern about rth functions.
That was kind of a adventure by itself,. There are still lots of interesting experiments to do.
I just subscribed. Amazing videos you are doing. I really enjoy it. Thumbs up from London.
Thanks a lot & welcome to the club ;-).
Hi !! Greetings from Argentina, fantastic video, thanks !!!
very interesting video and good info to know.
I will buy a p4 soon, great video and great adventure, keep going!!!
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Great job. Keep posting!
Great Video keep up the great adventures l have the p4 to great machine I like to see the 8k run good luck
Thanks. With support of my subscribers I will continue ;-).
One word "AMAZING"
Interesting video, look forward to the follow up.
In a couple of hours... :-)
+NeverMindYourOwn Excellent, really looking forward to your follow up. I've never seen anyone carry out an experiment like this before.
i think that WAS very informative..thanks
Love your videos! Subscribed!
Your profile pic had me thinking it was a piece of hair on my phone lmao, good one
Earned a sub, love these vids
coolest drone pilot on youtube lol!! nice video
This was surprisingly entertaining! Looking to buy a Phantom 4 myself. Looks like an antenna upgrade is essential.
I bought the antenna because I got a bad signal at 450 meters flying in a park. But now I know this was because there were like 4 layers of trees in between. Obstacles block the signal. Same with the better antenna. It depends on what type of flying you want to do.
You can buy a Phantom here directly from DJI with a discount: click.dji.com/AIK_3nSwENS-aP6XymE?pm=link
Paul Kabata or a DJI Mavic?
Best episode yet
Entertaining video. Keep on going.
Loved the video!
ur one crazy guy haha I love it keep up the great work
when you were having a hard time to get to the house where you landed, I was thinking, why didn't he take the Phantom controller with him, it has enough battery left to fly it off the roof and over to wherever you are standing!
I don't know if I'm right or not, but like you saw, it was still turned on when you got there... so maybe.
Love your vids. I sub up now.
Yeah, I didn't even try because I thought the battery would be empty anyways. I was surprised to find it still on.
when you completely landed the drone, it shut off... keeping the battery level up. (off but still with power so you can take off again but using little battery)
NeverMindYourOwn LOL YOUR PARROT MAKING ME LAUGH!!!😂😂😂
if you are below 10% you can't take off
That's just what I was thinking. It had 21 % battery when it landed and lost radio contact. It would have been able to take off (perhaps with a couple of "Are you QUITE sure, the battery is bloody low" messages). Naturally the machine stayed on, it was awaiting the word of command like a good little Red Army soldier! So all he needed to do was get in both radio and flying range and fly it back to his new position overlooking the landing site.
Leaving the zoom camera on was genius!
Love your videos so entertaining
This is Great stuff man. I am definitely subscribing to your channel. You are hilarious. Keep'm coming!! You make my day ,Thanks
Thanks, I'll keep trying :-).
Seriously your holiday home in the middle of Spain are you just like super rich you get to just play with drones all day!! So jealous!!
This is one of the most interesting Phantom videos I've seen. Where are you located and why did anyone build houses in that area? Interesting stuff. Subbed you.
Everytime i lose signal with mine i freak out but then i think about what a loss of signal would mean for people working at NASA so it probably doesnt compare haha
Ha ha :-).
Jebidiah Springfield . Easy to think this way and finding bits of evidence justifying this reasoning. However I think all their projects are indeed true and there are other reasons for why something on the net/tv might not look the way you want it to look. 😀
E visto varios de tus videos y Sos un Mostro Manejando el Phantom lo llevas a los Limites que muchos no Arian..Me Suscribo a tu canal y espero verte con el Phantom 4 Pro..Saludos desde Cali Colombia
It's like owning a DJ4 and pushing it to the limits. Thank you
good test appreciate your afford
That was an interesting test and adventure! The only thing you forgot was to carry along a fully charged battery and when you
got to the quad, relaunch the quad with the battery and send it home. :-D I would suppose it would hold the old compass setting?
Anyway, it would save from cracking up the quad or falling, and from having a accident climbing around the rough terrain.
Real nice scenery and interesting test, thanks for your video!
No, when you put the new battery in you have no choice, it resets the homepoint to where the aircraft is now! I do consecutive batteries regulary.
This is as fun as watching a TV show. You are so calm and relaxed, I would be too nervous!
After watching this I can't wait to upgrade my 3 standard to the 4. That range is insane.
Awesome Test! Good to Know! ;-)
Once you get to the location you want to land, set home point to aircraft location, it will set your home point right where the aircraft is and if you do autolanding or lose signal it will land at the new home point!
GodFear17 - interesting-and if you do that while hovering 10m above the ground would it not "think" the ground level is there?
@@aerialphotographyRDT I know I'm a year late but no, the DJI drones use their sensors to land not elevation. :)
haltorne.mp4 thanks
I love your Videos!!!
Crazy test , I don't trust to land my quad any other place some one can see it and stole the quad , Nice test and video :)
awesome video
Great video love it
dam nice experiment brother
Like other people said. Just turn off return to home toggle. Keep up the interesting videos.
You can select hover in the RTH settings, I believe.
Ha ha ha ... crazy man! Loved it!
This is awesome
Good video.
when you take off, go into the app where you can change your home point. There you can set a new home point wherever you want on the map. Works great, I have done this. No problem
Wahooo a Big Maratón Loss signal 4K 😁🤙🏽🏆
Pretty groovy test dude
:-) Thank you.
you can turn off return to home in settings, good video enjoyed it
I was just about to tell him that ....then I read this. Glad there is a couple of people out there that knew that besides me. lol
You could have briefly landed on the far building when you first arrived there. It would reset your home point. Great video. I admire your willingness to risk your expensive phantom for the sake of experimentation.
you could set it go back or hover or landing when the battery is low. you could find it .
It makes sense for it RTH so then the pilot can regain control and then make a good choice for where to emergency land it.
i have a phantom 3 professional and with no range extender ive reached well over 3.3 miles with good signal and still had enough time to return home with no prob
You have Big balls. Great video
Excellent video my friend. Great test of the Phantom logic. I wonder if you would have landed on the building then took back off then purposely lost signal with low battery if it would have tried to come home or land on the building. I think it considers home to be wherever it took off from last. Would be interesting to test this theory
It would have landed on the building again, because it records the home point when taking off. But after landing I lost the signal, because the side of the roof blocked the view/LOS. So I could not have taken off anyways.
Useful to know that it will try to get home no matter what. Seeing as you are only ever supposed to fly a drone within line of sight this feature makes sense. Only by breaking the law and flying so far away does this become a potential issue IF you have already decided not to return to home when all of the warnings tell you to.
Like I said though, it's useful to know thank you. I'd rather you risk your drone than me mine haha.
:D nice video again. I like the adventurer in you. I just wonder if asking google or just calling the DJI hotline/chat would have given you the answer instead of risking tech and neck. ;-)
Probably reading the manual would have too. But that's boring ;-).
The directivity of the antennas is important as the others have stated so they should be slightly lowered in this case. Next time, when you hit the interference,. a good test would be to stop and increase altitude. The C/I should change in your favour as the (I) interference is lowered due to the increased distance from the ground. You could also verify your setup.by flying
off to the right over the unpopulated area. I the Telecom business we often have interference from microwave ovens in this unregulated ism band. Great videos!
Gary White hes not using the stock antennas
You are a nut, but a good nut. Great informative videos. I subscribed.
When the drone started retuning the second time you lost signal, all I could think of is South Park's "Screw you guys, I'm going home" hahaha
There a setting for what happens when you lose signal in the Dji app now you can set it to hover rth or land. On my Mavic Pro.
Beautiful place - where is this place?very good video
In my experience with my DJI Spark, when you choose auto-land, then even if it loses contact while it is landing, it continues with the auto-land. Once auto-land has been initiated, it does not try to return home with the loss of communication.
I heard my notification at 0:23 :) Heh, that bird. :)
Surprise, it does what you tells it to. If you have set it to go home, it will go home. If you tells it to land - it will land :-) But funny video and nice area you are flying in.
Check your gps on dji go while connected to the controller. It will give you the last detected location or the detected location if it is on.
Great test, very helpful. Can I ask what type of Samsung tablet you are using? (and does it have gps?). I use my iphone6+ currently but I would like something with a bigger screen? (I also have a standard ipad but it's too big to be practical). Thanks if you can help
It's Galaxy Tab A. Works perfect, but for me I'd like to have another one, because the screen recorder does not render 25 fps on it. But if you don't want to use that, it should be fine.
Hello , thank you for your Test. What are the the lens you've used while you were flying the drone?
Panasonic HC-V550.
You should take the R/C and a fresh battery and send it back to your house... :)
And while doing that,you would check the right path for you to return home easy !
he's got some balls.... after a while it says, "returning to home", and he responds with "stupid thing".... hilarious
Congratulations on the found RTH setting. The settings are actually described in the manual to your quad. ;-)
Regards Leif.
Have you read the entire manual before your first flight?
I'd rather go out there and fly and see what I run in to ;-).
Normally, I look at the table of contents through and read the sections I will use the information from. If I doubt later, I will read it in the manual. The entire manual is actually on your tablet as a PDF file in academy and can be read from the DJIGO4 program if you have downloaded it it once. So you do not even need a paper edition with you or access to the internet.
Regards Leif.
Me reading manuals doesn't make interesting videos... ;-).
That is correct. ;-D
Hi, great job! What App do you use to connect VR glasses to PH4? Thanks in advance
You'll need to install a DJI HDMI module on the transmitter for that. No additional app needed.
Ok I'm hooked I just just subcribed.
finnaly he got it
Sir, if you set your homepoint to aircraft location, you don't have to wait your battery out. You could just do an autolanding.
Very clever!
Well done! Where is this?! Looks nice :)
Tenerife on Canary Island. Officially Spain, but it is near African coast.
So when flying under a bridge it's best to put in on 'hover'?
I like your spirit, subscribed!
Totally depends on the situation and your position. But when you think you may loose signal UNDER an object, for sure you do not want it to ascend! If I had to fly under a bridge, I'd position myself in such a way that I have LOS before, under and behind the bridge. Maybe when I go up and the bridge may come in between, I might lose signal, but then it would ascend and fly back OVER the bridge. See this video where I actually do fly under a bridge: ua-cam.com/video/lUH-m4FV0ew/v-deo.html
I understand and your video made that clear, thank you. Greetings from Belgium where drone laws are '???'
Nice video, good adventure. What song is that?
Thanks. It's 'Crimson Fly' from the UA-cam Free Audio Library.
great experiment, what would have happened if the battery was critical level, would it land itself?
Yes, it would.
Hi, good video !!!
I have one question for you. If Phantom 4 lose the signal. Should it return to home ?
The safest option is to set it to Return To Home. If you have also set the Smart RTH option on, it will even avoid obstacles when it returns. The most important thing is that when it tries to RTH, at some point you will get the signal back and then you can cancel the procedure and keep doing what you wanted to do.
If you lose signal and you told it to hoover, you may never get the signal back if you are not in a position to move around to get a good line of sight again. Then it will run out of battery at some point and automatically land just where it is. In most cases that is not desirable.
Only in special rare cases like mine, where I want it to fly from A to B and not return, you may want to set it differently.