The weirdest thing

I attempted to fly my mini 4 pro indoors as I tend to do with the prop guard as I do sometimes and pressed to start for it to lift and hover. Only this time it rose straight to the ceiling. Luckily the guards did their job preventing any damage. I hadn’t played with any settings and just set it up as I normally do. I know affixing said guards turns off obstacle avoidance but it still usually just starts up and hovers at around 1.2 metres.

After I got it down I checked it over and launched again. This time it did as it should rising and stopping at the usual height!! Has anyone else ever experienced this please?

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Never tried flying my mini 4 pro indoors ( no prop guards), not sure I’ll try after reading this !

Do fly my neo indoors succesfully though.

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Thanks for the reply. It usually flies okay indoors, it was just a fluke i guess.

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Was it low light levels, all the sensors on the mini 4 pro need light. I recently got a Neo and that sometimes behaves erraticaly indoors if the rooms darkish. Behaves fine if nice n bright .

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Not really! The living room light was on as it normally is, the sensors would have been disabled I believe because of the prop guards. I wonder whether that could have caused the issue. Because once I’d got it down I repeated the process and it started and rose to 1.2 ISH metres, although I did think that it rose and stopped a bit lower than usual. Thanks again.

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I have experienced a suction effect when flying within a foot or so of the ceiling - the props are pulling air down from above, and they seem to draw the drone up to the ceiling where it attaches itself until you throttle down. Scary!

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Yeah I notice it with the walls. But this was different.i pressed the usual and it just kept rising.

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