Of course not, why would they be?Note: The Smart Return-to-Home feature in DJI GO is not related to Smart RTH.
Please note that by default, obstacle avoidance is turned OFF for RTH, and you have to enable it.
Yes it's a setting you have to turn on. Settings > aircraft > advanced settings > enable RTH remote obstacle avoidanceObstacle avoidance is turned OFF by default during RTH? I would think that's when it would be needed most, especially if it was not retracing its flightpath. Is there any way to set the default obstacle avoidance to ON during RTH?
Okay, I'll bite. So what is the difference?Note: The Smart Return-to-Home feature in DJI GO is not related to Smart RTH.
When you enable the Smart Return-to-Home setting, your Phantom will auto return home when it calculates it's time to turn back based on the distance from the home point and amount of battery remaining. The DJI GO app will give you 10 seconds to cancel that auto RTH before it initiates.Okay, I'll bite. So what is the difference?
Yep, I vote to name this function "Low Battery Beeline Return" or LBBR. It would certainly reduce confusion.When you enable the Smart Return-to-Home setting, your Phantom will auto return home when it calculates it's time to turn back based on the distance from the home point and amount of battery remaining. The DJI GO app will give you 10 seconds to cancel that auto RTH before it initiates.
What exactly do you feel isn't correct?I really feel a lot of the above is not correct.
There is a fair amount of info not in the manual. Documentation or not the backtrack feature is there. A DJI rep even verified with the engineers it tries to backtrack a max of 60 seconds and if no TX signal is restored it switches to failsafe RTH. Plus there are plenty of videos out there showing the backtrack behavior including a video I posted recently.I really feel a lot of the above is not correct.
I have never read in any documentation that the Phantom will RTH by retracing it's recent course under any circumstances. After reading the manual, this is what I understand.
“Smart Return Home” denotes that the remaining battery capacity can only support the aircraft from return to the home point from the current position hence the app will prompt a message to notify that RTH is being invoked to bring the aircraft back to the home point at that moment. Object avoidance is active. You can cancel if you don’t want this to activate.
"Failsafe Return Home" will do the same as above, except it is invoked upon signal loss of 3 seconds or more duration.