RTH at night

[oc1doc]

Because it's the law.
A mile from the airport isn't that far. I'm a couple miles from the airport and my ceiling is 300 feet IF I get temporary approval to fly here at all.

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Thanks. I misunderstood your first reply to mean I should have been flying at 400 feet. I always stay well below that height and was very concerned when the drone exceeded it doing the RTH. I cancelled the RTH immediately and descended. My RTH is set at 200 feet.

 

[Cafguy]

If I never flew closer to the airport than 5 miles I would need to drive at least 4 miles every time I flew.

Welcome to my world. If thats a controlled airport you face some pretty hefty fines the first one being the smallest at 1500 If there are commercial operations at that airport and its controlled and you delay or halt those operations because of your drone you face a minimum of 75,000 dollars and a little bit of time in the pokey! (up to three years)...You cannot even hover the drone at 2 feet without permission or its a violation. You need to find out what Airport that is and what goes on there. All i'm sayin!

 

[Bad Santa]

Max height and RTH height aren't the same thing.
In your settings, set your ceiling at 400 feet. If the drone RTH goes over your max height, THEN you have a malfunction.
Saying you stay below 400 feet is fine but the RTH height is a minimum, not a maximum. So the drone sees (erroneously) an obstacle and goes up to avoid it. And it will keep going until it hits max height.

Saying that you'd have to go 4 miles to get away from an airport is a "boohoo" thing. I am about 3-4 miles away and I can't fly at my house (without clearance). It's my BOOHOO thing.

 

[Meta4]

RTH at night is a crapshoot IMO.

There's no reason that RTH at night should work any different from the way it does in daylight.
GPS doesn't stop working when the sun goes down.

 

[MS Coast]

All this worry about RTH altitude control malfunction is easily avoided by just flying the drone yourself. Better to be the PIC than a spectator.

If you lose position awareness for the drone, it's dirt simple to follow the rubber band line on the controller map back to the home point.

 

[AMann]

Would this be a good place to say my M2P pegs RTH landings at night, even with obstacle avoidance active, right where it took off from? That has to be due to the GPS working correctly, so I also think there’s an issue with that drone.