How to Control Your Drone

Learn how to control essential drone functions such as Return to Docking Station, Pause, Resume, and Abort functionalities.

Drone Control Panel Overview

The Drone Control Panel serves as a centralized hub, offering operators crucial flight information and commands, making essential drone tasks easily accessible at your fingertips. It is located in the bottom-center region of the dashboard.

View In-flight Information

The Drone Control Panel provides the operator with access to view the following in-flight information of the drone:

Mission Status Indicator - Shows the real-time mission completion percentage.
Drone State - Indicates the real-time status of the drone. Following are the different states represented by the drone.
1. In-flight - This state indicates that the drone is performing a mission or executing a 'Go to location' command.
2. Hovering - This state means the drone is currently hovering in place.
3. Offline - This state indicates that the drone is currently offline.
Mission Name - Provides info regarding the pre-planned mission being executed.

Drone Control Commands

Operators can use the drone control panel to execute the following commands:

Return To Home (RTH) - Directs the aircraft back to the docking station.
Pause - Pauses aircraft's motion and makes it enter into a hover standstill.
Resume - Continue planned aircraft activities initiated before the 'Pause' command.
Abort - Stops all active drone commands and makes it hover in place instantly.

Resume button will only be available when the drone is performing a mission.

Note that the Pause option is only supported when the drone is performing a pre-planned mission.

Return to Home (RTH)

This function brings the aircraft back to the docking station. The functionalities of the Return to Home (RTH) feature are as follows:

When the finish action is set to RTH during mission planning, it automatically triggers Return to Home (RTH) upon mission completion.
RTH automatically engages during a DJI failsafe event.
You can manually engage RTH during an ongoing mission.
When launching to a location, you can activate RTH only after engaging the 'Abort' button.

Steps to use Return to Home (RTH):

During a mission or Go to location, operators can command RTH from the drone control panel.

Upon pressing the button, the operator would receive a confirmation pop-up following which toaster messages (notifications) would appear on the dashboard and the drone starts executing RTH (Return to Home) command.