I realized that the height needst be set every flight.
I realized this the hard way a few days ago.
I lost signal between a rock and a hard place.
Was on a very remote Indonesian jungle island.
The rock being the ocean and the hard place the dense jungle.
Funny thing is that I lost signal from a lateral distance of no more than 100-150 feet and a height of approximately 15 meters.
But the
m2p at the time was around a bend. Dense jungle and a rock hill separated us.
This was my first RTH experience and it was absolutely nerve wracking.
The only redeeming element, while waiting for what seemed like an eternity, was that I could see motor RPM and speed (if no not mistaken), which assured me it hadn't crashed.
Moments later we hear it happily descending 1 meter away from the home point.
In retrospect, I should've set the height to at least 70 meters because, not only are the trees tall, some are on a cliff.
Lesson learned.