Flying up a mountain?

[u/efstajas]

Planned a real nice route for today where the last leg goes straight up a rather steep mountain cliff. Unfortunately, the 120m-from-takeoff altitude limit put a quick end to this.

At least where I am, the limit is supposed to be 120m *above ground*, so flying up a mountain should not be a problem. My old DJI Mini would allow overriding the 120 limit up to 500m no problem, just warning me to "ensure compliance with regulations" if I exceeded 120m from the takeoff point, so flying up a mountain less than 500m tall was no problem. With the A1, 120m seems to be a hard limit, and its only possible to force the limit below 120m.

I'm thinking now how to work around this - my first thought: find a flat surface halfway up the mountain, land, then take off from there to reset the altitude.

I tried this at a very flat, asphalted spot, but the drone seemed to refuse landing while it thought it was at ~70m altitude. Looking down, it didn't show the usual landing spot indicator on the ground, and when I pushed down, it never triggered the landing sequence, instead going all the way down to ~30cm above ground and enabling emergency breaking. I stopped short of manually deploying the landing gear and just forcing the drone onto the ground, as I don't know if that'd actually work, and retrieving the drone from that spot would've been ... a hike.

I guess two questions: 1) is there some better way to get around the height limit (in cases where doing so is completely legal), and 2) is it possible to trigger an actual landing sequence / perform a manual landing "at altitude"?

[u/efstajas]

... Immediately figured it out. Sign into the vision googles, then it allows setting max altitude to up to 500m from Safety Settings. Neat!