There's no passive-aggressive tone there.i'll humor you even though i don't appreciate the passive-aggressive tone; at the end of the day you are going to be you and I'm going to be me; i make my decisions based on my experience and you do the same for you.
Just a blunt incident investigator tone.
What the flyer thinks is happening is not always what really happened.
This complaint is with the precision of the landing rather than the drone's ability to return.-- never once did the drone land fully on the pad (and i have the biggest circular one you can get); my definition of the 'perfect' landing was if it got at least 1 leg on the pad.
-- the 2 satisfactory times it landed within 10 feet of the pad
-- for the 5 unsatisfactory times:
-- twice tried to land on a chain link fence (approx 15ft from the pad)
There are a few points to consider here:
1. There's no need to let RTH do the landing, you can cancel and resume control at any time and land where and how you choose.
2. You were relying on GPS for the landing.
Consumer GPS is not pinpoint accurate.
Most times it will put the drone within 6 ft of the target but the error can occasionally be a bit more.
If using GPS only for landing accuracy, be aware of this and allow space around your launch area.
3. If you want the drone to RTH and land accurately on target, it has a Precision Landing Feature that uses optical technology to land it within a couple of inches.
Check the manual for details
One possible explanation might be that you cancelled the climb by moving the left stick while the drone was starting the climb (mentioned in the manual).-- once flew completely over me NOT at the RTH height setting but fortunately high enough to miss my palm trees and roof, i disabled RTH and hit is again and it did come back
Your recorded flight data should confirm whether this was the case or show what caused the issue.
If you want the drone to auto-land, you should do this on a level surface.-- 1 landing was a 'bounce' as if it wasn't aware of the elevation change (my yard is sloped downward to a canal, not significant but probably a total of 6' over a distance of 25')
-- 2 landings were 'drops' where it assumed the ground was there and started power down, again my assumption the slope, the fall wasn't great but still about 6"
As previously mentioned, recorded flight data is good to find out what was going on.
This is interesting.lastly the thing i didn't like the most was the drone didn't go straight up to get to RTH height, it angled, almost every time and there was no upwards obstruction and twice it appeared would have flown into a palm tree
If you initiate RTH with the controller button, it will always climb vertically to RTH height before coming home (unless you cancel the climb as mentioned above).
If RTH initiates because the drone loses signal, the drone will attempt to retrace its path until it finds signal.
Recorded flight data would show what actually happened in these cases.
Your choice but having a feature that initiates RTH on loss of signal and disabling it sounds like a very good way to unnecessarily lose your drone some day.i do appreciate the warning but this is something i'm convinced is the right thing for me.