Hi Everyone,
This is my first post to the Phantom forum. I have spent many hours reading the well informed posts by
so many enthusiastic members. Now I am posting a problem that is baffling.
I am fortunate to be in Park City, Utah this summer and have been practicing and practicing flying and creating flight plans with my Phantom. After several weeks it became obvious to me that Litchi software offers many custom features that are not available from DJI. Purchased and have used the Litchi software for the past few weeks. Now comes the problem.
Park City is at 7,000 MSL and I have experienced no problems no problems using Waypoints, gimbal and heading settings and the host of features available. No issues. Planned a flight at Wasatch National Forest and specifically at Butterfly Lake. The Lake is at 11,000 MSL. There is no internet service that far away from
the city so I followed the instructions of several forum members and laid out the flight at my home using the internet. I zoomed the map several times to make sure there was plenty of data stored in the cache.
The waypoints used for the Butterfly Lake flight were between 40 and 350 meters (default max alt 500 meters). I was extra careful to check each of the 14 waypoints to make certain that all flight parameters were safe and within the capability of the software (or so I thought).
Travelled to Butterfly Lake and fired up the bird and hovered at 3 meters and got a message that said 'altitude to high.' Landed, rechecked everything in my flight plan and tried again and again with the same error message. Then manually flew the bird and had no problem with altitude or control. So I suspect that there
is a software problem, but it beats the heck out of me.
I suspect not many members haven't flown at this height but hope that somebody can shed light on why it works perfectly at 7,000 MSL and not at 11,000. I'm flying a Phantom 4 and using an IOS operating system.
Chuck Greenberg
This is my first post to the Phantom forum. I have spent many hours reading the well informed posts by
so many enthusiastic members. Now I am posting a problem that is baffling.
I am fortunate to be in Park City, Utah this summer and have been practicing and practicing flying and creating flight plans with my Phantom. After several weeks it became obvious to me that Litchi software offers many custom features that are not available from DJI. Purchased and have used the Litchi software for the past few weeks. Now comes the problem.
Park City is at 7,000 MSL and I have experienced no problems no problems using Waypoints, gimbal and heading settings and the host of features available. No issues. Planned a flight at Wasatch National Forest and specifically at Butterfly Lake. The Lake is at 11,000 MSL. There is no internet service that far away from
the city so I followed the instructions of several forum members and laid out the flight at my home using the internet. I zoomed the map several times to make sure there was plenty of data stored in the cache.
The waypoints used for the Butterfly Lake flight were between 40 and 350 meters (default max alt 500 meters). I was extra careful to check each of the 14 waypoints to make certain that all flight parameters were safe and within the capability of the software (or so I thought).
Travelled to Butterfly Lake and fired up the bird and hovered at 3 meters and got a message that said 'altitude to high.' Landed, rechecked everything in my flight plan and tried again and again with the same error message. Then manually flew the bird and had no problem with altitude or control. So I suspect that there
is a software problem, but it beats the heck out of me.
I suspect not many members haven't flown at this height but hope that somebody can shed light on why it works perfectly at 7,000 MSL and not at 11,000. I'm flying a Phantom 4 and using an IOS operating system.
Chuck Greenberg
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