Hi all, newbie to the forums here.
Yesterday I sent my Mavic up to do a track of my boat at anchor. The boat was in a cove surrounded by big hills and trees but of course I was flying out to sea. I launched from the shore with GPS set and took shelter under a small bush from the sun. The boat was about 300m away so I flew above (50-100m?) and beyond (500m?) it to set the active track when I lost connection. The app simply said 'disconnected'. It was like this for a minute before regaining connection. The only thing i can think is that the bush i was under was blocking line of sight. However last week I flew my drone from a woody island and followed another boat out to sea where there was far more obstruction. In that instance the drone was much further away where I could only navigate by the app but that flight went without a hitch. In this latest episode I was flying from an island with no habitation. There was one mast ashore that's probably a VHF aerial at a guess, mounted by a disused ranger station, nothing too sinister.
The only other weird thing was that when manually RTB, the app flashed up a warning in yellow font, something about letting go of the sticks. I presume this was because I had them in an emergency landing position, but I believe I was moving forward and down so that doesn't make sense.
Any idea why it would lose connection like this?
[I've tried to upload what I think is my flight log but it says file extension not allowed.]
Yesterday I sent my Mavic up to do a track of my boat at anchor. The boat was in a cove surrounded by big hills and trees but of course I was flying out to sea. I launched from the shore with GPS set and took shelter under a small bush from the sun. The boat was about 300m away so I flew above (50-100m?) and beyond (500m?) it to set the active track when I lost connection. The app simply said 'disconnected'. It was like this for a minute before regaining connection. The only thing i can think is that the bush i was under was blocking line of sight. However last week I flew my drone from a woody island and followed another boat out to sea where there was far more obstruction. In that instance the drone was much further away where I could only navigate by the app but that flight went without a hitch. In this latest episode I was flying from an island with no habitation. There was one mast ashore that's probably a VHF aerial at a guess, mounted by a disused ranger station, nothing too sinister.
The only other weird thing was that when manually RTB, the app flashed up a warning in yellow font, something about letting go of the sticks. I presume this was because I had them in an emergency landing position, but I believe I was moving forward and down so that doesn't make sense.
Any idea why it would lose connection like this?
[I've tried to upload what I think is my flight log but it says file extension not allowed.]
