DJI Mavic Mini: Flying to 0% Battery – RTH, Critical Battery & Auto Power-Off explained
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As you drain the battery when flying, the Mavic Mini will initiate a number of automatic safety features to stop it from crashing. Low Battery Return to Home, Critical Battery Autoland and Forced Auto
Power-off Landing. These all kick in with little warning and can catch you out as the Mini will suddenly move or land with little warning and without input from you. I show you exactly what happens and also lose my drone requiring me to use the Find My drone function to retrieve it from the cornfield. Note: Draining the battery to 0% is a quick way to damage the battery.
Grime’s Graves: Ending bonus footage of a nice evening flight around Grime’s Graves Neolithic Flint Mine in Thetford Forest, Norfolk. The dimples are the old mining pits that were dug out by hand, mined, then filled with earth after with earth from the next pit being dug. Each pit is around 20 feet across and went down around 40-50 feet where a network of smaller tunnels branched off for the miners to chisel away the flint. More info:
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For those who feel that need to push the battery to the limit, this is what happens…. But remember it's a great way to panic and crash, and also damages the battery. All tales of woe gratefully received below! And for those after more info on Grimes Graves at the end: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grime%27s_Graves Cheers, Ian
How to turn on that arrow on middle of screen? Its show u Where drone is turn. I dont have it on my screen
I overrode the return home. I didn’t know about the auto land at 10%. I got lucky and it landed safely. I will never let it get that low on battery again.
cool vid cheers, i panicked earlier when it started beeping lol…. only just got my mini 2 🙂
This was really helpful. Thank you man!
That's a very critical function familiarised. Thank you
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Thanks Ian, you answered my question about whether or not you had any control over the elevation when entering the 1st critical battery warning. I didn't think you did. Of all the critical warnings rapidly occurring, would be nice if that little piece of information was displayed. 🙄 Thanks again!
Great vid! I think we should do this in a controlled situation i.e. do drills to practice for the real thing happening.
Informative and good video. thanks.
I've just watched this video about battery life. https://youtu.be/-mGVSqg6OFg Is this correct? It seems rather naughty of DJI to set the battery time out so that the batteries fail if you don't use the drone.
mate you probably already know this but be careful with your dogs in that form field because corn is a place fleas like to lay eggs and just sleep so just be aware of them!
Thanks Ian, this means if one keeps one head when the battery is losing its head, you might just save your drone.
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Thank you for great review, quick question, if drone landed on water in low battery mode, is it still ok for replacement via dji care plan? Thanks
Can you please confirm; When it is in critical landing state and still accepting stick inputs, that pressing the 'Tap to cancel landing' button (displayed on the left side of screen) does nothing? I wonder why it is even there….
Would the beeper have engaged, if you'd hit the button?
Is the battery on the screen from phone or drone?
Great info thanks 👍🏼👍🏼
Good to know, Thanks!
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Nice video mate. Just wondering how many times that return to home works if u let it fly by it self if there is no optical? 10/10?
Great video , thanks for sharing the info 👍
Useful information for new and inexperienced drone owners 👍
After watching your video……… I will spray the topside a very bright orange color 👍🏼👋🏼👍🏼
Good to know Ian! …. just don’t panic Mr Mainwaring! Keep ones cool! 👍 great video Ian! Certainly learn from them!
I was about to lose mine during strong wind the other day , lost connection but luckily mini managed to get back on its own . I discovered that the target you are flying towards can actually be a lot further than you think . From a distance I thought mini was already on the target but when I checked the screen , it was meters away 🙂 Thank you for the video Ian .
Thanks for the great, practical video. Unrelated question, are those WW2 bomb craters filmed from 9:45 onwards?
By the way, I have not seen you comment on the "A" and "B" blade sets and correct placement on all DJI drones, including the Mini and Mini 2.
Ian, how do you feel about dust covers? I know they add, aluminum, 3 grams or so of weight. I know it can depend on where you live and if sand or dust is common on landing. My question is will the motors overheat with these caps in place? Any insight? They would also keep moisture out flying in clouds. I flew by clouds as a helicopter pilot, stuck out my hand and felt the warmth before evaporation cooled my hand. Lots of fun. Any way to contact DJI on such questions and to request they call the blade mounting "screws" spindles. Some on YouTube are recommending not changing the "screws", just the blades. Not a good idea in a high grit environment where the fretting of the blades will grind the spindle.
0 Battery and Auto Power Off
Great useful information. Where are those unusual dips in the ground?
Why fly over water with critical battery 🙃 surely air on side of caution ⚠️
Thank You so much for your Video, it helped me a lot to figure out where to find my lost Mavic Air.
I was taking some nice shots over a giant Man Made Hole with Giant Excavators (Tagebau Hambach Germany) from a Platform on top of a small Hill, what i didn`t realize was that there where strong Winds that pushed the Drone out a bit to much, i tryed to fly it back before the RTH Point was reached, in Sport Mode it only reached about 15-20 km/h, and than it hit the 6% Battery point and said it would land now, this was about 250m away from my starting point and already 20m below me, due to the Tree Coverage at some Point i Lost the connection to the Drone, last Position in "Find my Drone" was at the Edge where the Trees started down there, so i took the short Route to get down and try to find my Drone, but it was nowhere to be seen, the Remote must have caught a Signal on my Way down it was Upside Down and Grass in front of the Camera… it didn`t took long for some Workers to spot me there searching, they helped a little, but the Drone seemed to be gone, and i had to leave this Place because Civilists are not allowed down there.
So i Yesterday asked a Friend which is working there for help, he took me to the Spot where the App has the last known Location, we searched every little Spot with Grass and still nothing to find there, so i had to go again without my Drone… and then i saw your Video Yesterday Evening, that the Drone will respond to the Remote Signals until the Battery is really at 0% and i just decends when you let got the Sticks, so i opened up the App ad watched back the last Flight Record with Stick Controls shown, it was at 99% forward when it lost the Signal (where it Recorded or send it last Position), so i asked my Friend if i could try to search somewhere above this position again, and i could. Today i was there zigzaging my Way down to cover some Ground from the Direction of Flight and last known Position, just a little further up, and i would say 50m beyond the marked Position i Found the Drone between some Trees, nothing was broken, just a bit Wet and Dirty.
If i hadn`t seen your Video i for sure would have not tryed to find it again, but so i could retrieve it, and maybe it helps someone else to figure out the Position where the Drone is, when you have a Signal the last Position will be accurate, but when you lost Signal because of Trees or something else, you need to know what commands you gave last and for how long.
And Again thank you so much for that Video.
My drone lost yesterday cuz of strong wind and I didn’t put the automatic land thing so my drone went somewhere and my drone battery died. I couldn’t find my drone. I tried in find my drone It showed the last time connection lost place but I searched that place but I couldn’t find my drone. Plz someone help me
User should be given choice to use drone up to last 10 minutes he/she should not be enthusiastically drain battery. Software!
Is this whal ur recording a video or just flying with no recording cuz my one it last only 16min with 2.7k recording
I’m infested in getting this drone but concerned about flyaways will find my drone still work to ? And which pack would you recommend e.g flymore ?
I think the battery low beep is too late, 2 meter height it is a beep and shut down..