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AUTO RTH speed?

Japyoo

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So I was wondering: when u drift to far off with your mini it automaticly switches to rth if the signal is lost for like 10 secs.
But in wich mode does it return to you? Is it the mode that you were currently in? or does it automaticly switch to sport mode to recover quickly?
I think it probably returns in P mode even if your flying in C mode but i'm not 100% sure about this, does anyone know?
 
The basic answer is outside control range the speed limit is 8m/s irrespective of whatever mode the disconnect occurred in. A more complicated answer will follow
 

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The following screen captures are from a screen-video-capture of an RTH that I did from around 400m-500m during a basically windless 'window'
I may try this in a not "windless 'window'" to see what "speed", as used in the manual, means.

1) = sticks centred, D=477m, return journey just starting, speed 1.3m/s , recording time t=2.48
2) = sticks centred, D=437m, steady state, speed around 8m/s, recording time t=2.55
3) = sticks centred, D=295m, steady state, speed around 8m/s, recording time t=3.13
4) = R stick fully forward, D=211m, peak speed 14.3 m/s, recording time t=3.21
5) = R stick easing off, D=89m, manual slow down speed 13.5 m/s, recording time t=3.29

The drone was in Sport mode through out this procedure.
Between the start of the RTH and screen capture 3 I left the sticks alone.
Just after screen capture 3 I pushed the right stick fully forward (controller stick mode = 2). Screen capture 4 was approximatley the fastest flight speed.
Shortly there after I began to let the right stick centre for a gradual slow down rather than a "slam on the anchors" stop, screen capture 5 shows this.

When the feeling takes me I will repeat this with the drone in P mode and then C mode.

With regards to the graphical plot. It shows, for a series of these RTH's, the output plots from CsvView for
a) in light green, distance from the home point (m)
b) in red, speed (m/s)
c) in purple, the right stick input
d) in light green, the "pitch" of the drone (presumably in degrees)
 

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