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Mavic 2 tough little bird!

dougcjohn

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I've seen many Mavic, Spark, even Inspires tag a small tree limb or group of leaves and have it go down or spiral off & do down.
Knowing it doesn't take much resistance to effect Motor or ESC of smaller crafts... bigger platforms too for that matter too.

I recently completed a test Litchi flight, always have it end at 1st way point or hover then manually bring it down. Was in a residential area with a lot of trees and required a little maneuvering to reach drive way. In honesty, I brought it down a bit too quickly while enjoying the tight navigation through the trees.... ya, a bit over zealous confidence was plucked.

Connected with a large maple tree's upper smaller branch at tree top level, so much that it threw leaves and the Mavic went toward the center of tree! With sphincter clamping, I was pushing sticks up & away from center... thinking it was about to stall motor & snag or fall. Could actually "hear" the motors grunt several times as connected with tree leafs, changing pitch like a harmonica; suddenly the little M2P appeared over the top of the tree.

Landing & inspecting the Mavic shown it was well covered with leaf sap on props and fuselage beyond wiping off, required a damp cloth to clean. The props weren't broke but the prop attachment tangs showed large indentations... enough to warrant replacement.

Just passing an observation that the Mavic 2 series appears to be a bit more resilient and able to recover from a small strike.
 
I've seen many Mavic, Spark, even Inspires tag a small tree limb or group of leaves and have it go down or spiral off & do down.
Knowing it doesn't take much resistance to effect Motor or ESC of smaller crafts... bigger platforms too for that matter too.

I recently completed a test Litchi flight, always have it end at 1st way point or hover then manually bring it down. Was in a residential area with a lot of trees and required a little maneuvering to reach drive way. In honesty, I brought it down a bit too quickly while enjoying the tight navigation through the trees.... ya, a bit over zealous confidence was plucked.

Connected with a large maple tree's upper smaller branch at tree top level, so much that it threw leaves and the Mavic went toward the center of tree! With sphincter clamping, I was pushing sticks up & away from center... thinking it was about to stall motor & snag or fall. Could actually "hear" the motors grunt several times as connected with tree leafs, changing pitch like a harmonica; suddenly the little M2P appeared over the top of the tree.

Landing & inspecting the Mavic shown it was well covered with leaf sap on props and fuselage beyond wiping off, required a damp cloth to clean. The props weren't broke but the prop attachment tangs showed large indentations... enough to warrant replacement.

Just passing an observation that the Mavic 2 series appears to be a bit more resilient and able to recover from a small strike.

Did you turn on the OBS? And also you have to try the follow me and active track? If you do, test it in an area where there are lots of obstacles. Scary at first, but the M2PE wins all the time.
 
:confused: Actually had that off... to drop down throgh trees with OBS on almost isn't possible... keeps stopping and won't maneuver through the trees. It was self-inflicted... if I had been more cautious, wouldn't had occured.

The Activetrack I haven't played with since the Spark joys... it was pretty cool and from what I've read, the M2 is awesome in comparison. I'd like to try with cycling.
 

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