Mistakes to avoid with a drone

I received my brand new Mini 3 Pro a few days ago and I was working on my second video about it

regarding footage quality which I will publish in a few days. I was trying the low light capabilities

I had noticed before that in low light this model is very dark

So I was trying different settings as I thought there might be something wrong

I have only one battery at the moment as the fly more common. is not available yet where I live

The battery was charging, but I wanted to catch the last bit of Twilight before full night

so I decided to fire the drone up, even though the battery was just above half-level

I had previously done some night footage in manual mode and the result were very disappointing

so this time I wanted to try the auto mode to see if some magic would happen

But as you can see, the footage is still extremely dark, even though he was

was not yet full night. But this is a matter for my next video about footage quality

As you can see from the screen recording, I took off with about 15 minutes of flying time

which is a bit too tight. Since I knew that I had reduced battery life, I took off and immediately started flying towards

the target for my first clip, instead of waiting for the satellite to lock

which likely generally happens in a very short time through the mini tree

Therefore the home point was updated a bit farther away from my location and this does not help when trying to land the aircraft in very dark conditions as the best way to retrieve a drone for landing is to have an accurate

on point and check the distance of the drone relative to it in the lower left part of the screen

after three very quick clips i started bringing the birds back towards the nest

i noticed that mount etna right at that moment was putting up a show and i was

very tempted to shoot some very spectacular footage. But I decided to behave and bring the drone back

as I was running a bit short of battery. But I still had six minutes left, and I was not too far away

With any other drone, I have no issue locating my position at this time at night

But with the mini-tree, everything was extremely dark, and I could not even recognize my house

According to the distance, the drone was supposed to be very close. but I could not see the flashing lens

As I said, my home point was not updated in the correct location. Time was really running short now and I started to panic a bit

I decided to hit the return-to-home button to have quickly the drone as close as possible

But I had not yet checked the return-to-home altitude, which was set by default to a whopping 100 meters

Therefore, it took a lot of time to ascend and then to bring it back down, further draining the batteries

At this point, I did a last desperate bid to try and bring it back, but the battery was gone