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hi all. A couple of things are happening to me.
1. Losing connection while in mid flight.
2. Return to home issue.
1. At random points during flight, pretty much every time I fly, it loses video transmission. So, I will still be able to control it fine but, can no longer see on my phone. I can only fly in line of sight otherwise it would be lost. One time, I was not very far off but couldn’t see exactly where it was at. Lost signal and tried backing up to where I was standing. (Scared to practice RTH)
Suddenyl, the image reconnected and I could see that I was WAY off from where I thought I was. I was able to land it only because the image came back. Otherwise it would have been lost in the desert.
Today, I was flying in a friends back yard. Lost image. No problem, I kept flying around because I was well within line of sight so I just kept playing. I brought it back down, within 30’ of take off point. Suddenly I thought this would be a good time to practice RTH.
2. RTH problem.
I hit return to home, expecting it to fly toward me and land. Instead, it went straight up. I thought this was fine because it was just going to RTH altitude before landing. But instead, it went up over a tree and began heading away from home. I tried manually taking control to fly it back down and found that my only available controls were down and backward. No forward, left or right, or pan. I tried to cancel return to home but it would not cancel. So I tried to back it up, while lowering it. But every time I let go of the handles, it would go back up and forward again. Finally after a minute or two of this struggle, I flew into some branches where it surprisingly fought its way out of the tree. Until it flipped over and flew straight at the ground. It hit the ground upside down and continued to spin it’s motors until I grabbed it and removed the battery.
What is going on? Is my fun over?
1. Losing connection while in mid flight.
2. Return to home issue.
1. At random points during flight, pretty much every time I fly, it loses video transmission. So, I will still be able to control it fine but, can no longer see on my phone. I can only fly in line of sight otherwise it would be lost. One time, I was not very far off but couldn’t see exactly where it was at. Lost signal and tried backing up to where I was standing. (Scared to practice RTH)
Suddenyl, the image reconnected and I could see that I was WAY off from where I thought I was. I was able to land it only because the image came back. Otherwise it would have been lost in the desert.
Today, I was flying in a friends back yard. Lost image. No problem, I kept flying around because I was well within line of sight so I just kept playing. I brought it back down, within 30’ of take off point. Suddenly I thought this would be a good time to practice RTH.
2. RTH problem.
I hit return to home, expecting it to fly toward me and land. Instead, it went straight up. I thought this was fine because it was just going to RTH altitude before landing. But instead, it went up over a tree and began heading away from home. I tried manually taking control to fly it back down and found that my only available controls were down and backward. No forward, left or right, or pan. I tried to cancel return to home but it would not cancel. So I tried to back it up, while lowering it. But every time I let go of the handles, it would go back up and forward again. Finally after a minute or two of this struggle, I flew into some branches where it surprisingly fought its way out of the tree. Until it flipped over and flew straight at the ground. It hit the ground upside down and continued to spin it’s motors until I grabbed it and removed the battery.
What is going on? Is my fun over?