I was in a small Italian town in the north and it's usually the case when I try to fly in Europe to have to calibrate, especially the first time after arriving from the US>
But it kept failing over and over again. I was in a modernized boardwalk with some kind of metallic frames and guardrails but wooden plants, though with big metal bolts.
It would keep telling me to try recalibrating again. I did so 2 or 3 times, finally canceled. But then the status was all green so I took off. I hit the 120 meter ceiling but didn't stray too far from home. The furthest I went was about 300-400 meters from home.
It did flash a Class D airspace message. In the Italian D-flight map, the area is in the clear, no restrictions whatsoever. No civilian airports or heliports nearby.
In any event, I flew about 300-400 meters out and I started getting low signal or no signal warnings. Video wasn't updating either as I tried to turn around and fly back home.
I initiated RTH and landed without incident. In the resulting video at the time I got the signal warnings, just some erratic swings as I probably was trying to turn the aircraft around with the unstable video feed.
I swapped batteries and got calibration error again. Same thing, calibration failed but eventually I was able to take off again and this time I didn't venture as far but probably ran a 15-20 minute hyper lapse and I ended it well before it reached the same point where I had the signal errors before.
It's over the center of town where the signal errors occurred. There's a long marina and just normal buildings, roads in the flight path.
I wouldn't think compass calibration errors would be related to RC signal loss?
Maybe some kind of radio interference?
But it kept failing over and over again. I was in a modernized boardwalk with some kind of metallic frames and guardrails but wooden plants, though with big metal bolts.
It would keep telling me to try recalibrating again. I did so 2 or 3 times, finally canceled. But then the status was all green so I took off. I hit the 120 meter ceiling but didn't stray too far from home. The furthest I went was about 300-400 meters from home.
It did flash a Class D airspace message. In the Italian D-flight map, the area is in the clear, no restrictions whatsoever. No civilian airports or heliports nearby.
In any event, I flew about 300-400 meters out and I started getting low signal or no signal warnings. Video wasn't updating either as I tried to turn around and fly back home.
I initiated RTH and landed without incident. In the resulting video at the time I got the signal warnings, just some erratic swings as I probably was trying to turn the aircraft around with the unstable video feed.
I swapped batteries and got calibration error again. Same thing, calibration failed but eventually I was able to take off again and this time I didn't venture as far but probably ran a 15-20 minute hyper lapse and I ended it well before it reached the same point where I had the signal errors before.
It's over the center of town where the signal errors occurred. There's a long marina and just normal buildings, roads in the flight path.
I wouldn't think compass calibration errors would be related to RC signal loss?
Maybe some kind of radio interference?