POI Question

DJi Newbie · Sep 24, 2015

Hi guys iv'e read that if I lose signal when POI is active my bird will keep rotating to the point of critical battery and land in place, is this true? I want to do a POI shot of a cool water tower 2KM away from my house but i won't if there's any chance my Phantom will land 2KM away.

bobmyers · Sep 24, 2015

DJi Newbie said:
Hi guys iv'e read that if I lose signal when POI is active my bird will keep rotating to the point of critical battery and land in place, is this true? I want to do a POI shot of a cool water tower 2KM away from my house but i won't if there's any chance my Phantom will land 2KM away.

That's been reported-- but I would want to test that by being close to that tower, when I tried it.

bbfpv · Sep 24, 2015

DJi Newbie said:
Hi guys iv'e read that if I lose signal when POI is active my bird will keep rotating to the point of critical battery and land in place, is this true? I want to do a POI shot of a cool water tower 2KM away from my house but i won't if there's any chance my Phantom will land 2KM away.

It's true.

bobmyers · Sep 24, 2015

bbfpv said:
It's true.

Has someone posted that experience?

bbfpv · Sep 24, 2015

bobmyers said:
Has someone posted that experience?

Yes, it's all over RCG. Blade Strike confirmed it.

happydays · Sep 24, 2015

If you want to fly 2km away you'll have no problems. I did a lighthouse 1.5km away last week, did a few POI rotations, loads of different flyovers, pans etc and still had time to come back with over 20% battery left. Flight time was 17 minutes. It took two minutes to get out there. Here's the clip.

bobmyers · Sep 24, 2015

bbfpv said:
Yes, it's all over RCG. Blade Strike confirmed it.

Thanks for the info--wont have to test it

DJi Newbie · Sep 24, 2015

happydays said:
If you want to fly 2km away you'll have no problems. I did a lighthouse 1.5km away last week, did a few POI rotations, loads of different flyovers, pans etc and still had time to come back with over 20% battery left. Flight time was 17 minutes. It took two minutes to get out there. Here's the clip.

I'll never fly without a failsafe.

pbrain · Sep 24, 2015

Shouldn't you be flying 'in line of sight' rather than 2km away?

DJi Newbie · Sep 24, 2015

It's LOS if I can see the tower haha.

happydays · Sep 25, 2015

line of sight means line of sight. The moon is line of sight. A fly on a tree 2 miles away that is in unobstructed view is line of sight.You don't have to be able to see it for it to be line of sight.

tcope · Sep 25, 2015

happydays said:
line of sight means line of sight. The moon is line of sight. A fly on a tree 2 miles away that is in unobstructed view is line of sight.You don't have to be able to see it for it to be line of sight.

Not that it matters for non commercial flying but the FAA states VISUAL line of sight. Line of sight is just a short way of putting this.

lotusteve · Sep 25, 2015

happydays said:
If you want to fly 2km away you'll have no problems. I did a lighthouse 1.5km away last week, did a few POI rotations, loads of different flyovers, pans etc and still had time to come back with over 20% battery left. Flight time was 17 minutes. It took two minutes to get out there. Here's the clip.

Spectacular...