Jkeller84
Second Officer
Flight distance : 396955 ft
United States
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Oldmaninwva Posted at 2017-1-22 11:15
Yes the connection was lost for sure, I was more than 500 ft past the bridge and my RTH altitude was set to 120m (set that on initial setup and left it) so depending on how long it takes for the RTH to take over on a lost connection it's "Possible" that if the P4 was still moving horizontal (back towards me) at the last recorded speed then it "Could" have went into the bridge... I was watching the area the whole time and did not see the P4 after signal was lost, so it (to me anyways right now) seems to have lost power and dropped into the water.
I have had a couple lost connections before, they always came right back. Only on a forced lost connection where I shut off the controller and verified the RTH feature, the bird went to failsafe rth in under 5 seconds and came right back to my take off point so I know that feature worked (at least then)
You should always check the RTH setting before every flight. DJI Go has ben known to reset some settings occasionally. Also, if it never actually lost connection with the remote, it wouldn't have returned to home. I am guessing that you just lost your App video feed, and not actually the connection to the remote. This means that you do not see what is happening, but the inputs that you give to the stick, will still control the aircraft. You could have inadvertently flown it blindly right into the bridge. |
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