A heart stopping moment

[Soxer123]

I;ve been practising my flying skills with my Mavic Air for about 4 months now, which in hours isn't that much the way the weather has been. A lot of this has been at Barr Beacon, which is on the edge of a restricted area, as planes fly over on the approach to Birmingham airport (they are still quite high).

I've never had any problems until today. First I got a sterner warning on my screen about airspace but saying fly with caution.

Flew at about forty feet and about 500 feet away, no line of sight due to trees, I lost connection.

This has never happened before and my heart was in my mouth. The drone landed and fortunately on flat soft ground. Like I say it was only about 600 feet away, but it does make me wonder just what caused that.

Are there any particular factors that might cause this ? There are masts up there, but I've never had a problem before and I don't fly near them or the pylons some distance away.

Any hints on the possibilities, as I am scared of going back there now.

Keith

 

[Simmo]

Hey mate, sad to say it, but you already know!..
'Flew at about forty feet and about 500 feet away, no line of sight due to trees, I lost connection.'
The Air uses 'enhanced wifi' and is no where near as good as occusync...

 

[Rnl]

I would set it return home not land, you don’t know condition of landing area.

 

[Soxer123]

I would set it return home not land, you don’t know condition of landing area.

I did hit that button in an instant and it didn't return home. Like I said, I saw a red bar top left of my screen and it said connection lost. I started walking towards the direction and it didn't recover. Still puzzled, I've flowin that area loads and a longer distance than 500 feet

 

[Rnl]

Are you going to look for it?

 

[Soxer123]

I found it using the map feature and a bit of luck

 

[Rnl]

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