Without reading the manual. As I remember from several years ago, and it may not be that way now, is if you are within a certain distance from the controller, it does not rise to the RTH altitude and flies directly back to the home point.
How...
The silver lining in the Texas drone laws is that you need to fly with the intent of surveillance (not just happen to capture someone's house in your sunset shot) and deleting the footage without posting it online is an acceptable defense. AKA...