I thought that a video of a typical return-to-home example might be reassuring for new drone owners, or those considering buying one, and since a search didn't show a recent video I decided to post my own.
I took off from a launch pad with a distinct pattern, hovered at about 20 feet up to let the visual sensors on the bottom of the drone lock onto the pattern, and then manually flew up a hillside some distance away from the takeoff point until it reached the legal limit of 400 feet elevation. I didn't try to be particularly smooth with the climb. At 1:15 in the video, after pausing just a couple of seconds, I initiated a Return-to-Home and the drone flew itself all the way back to a landing completely on its own. The ONLY manual action I took after 1:15 was to point the camera gimbal down for the video. The landing was within about three inches of the center of the pattern in spite of the wind that is evident from the swaying tree branches.
I took off from a launch pad with a distinct pattern, hovered at about 20 feet up to let the visual sensors on the bottom of the drone lock onto the pattern, and then manually flew up a hillside some distance away from the takeoff point until it reached the legal limit of 400 feet elevation. I didn't try to be particularly smooth with the climb. At 1:15 in the video, after pausing just a couple of seconds, I initiated a Return-to-Home and the drone flew itself all the way back to a landing completely on its own. The ONLY manual action I took after 1:15 was to point the camera gimbal down for the video. The landing was within about three inches of the center of the pattern in spite of the wind that is evident from the swaying tree branches.