Ex Machina
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Flight distance : 1806362 ft
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Dubwilcox Posted at 2017-7-31 20:21
I see that. I have never encountered a Forced Landing before. Should it have warned me on either the remote controller or the app? I know without a doubt that I was well above the hill because I could see the lights and the video showed a large distance between the surface and the camera.
It's difficult to make sense of any attempt to land being the reason for the loss, as the Aircraft Disconnected message appeared instantly, with no breakup of the video or signal like I've seen in the past when there are obstacles in the terrain.
I think you should have received a warning, check your warnings log under Go 4's General settings. I've only experienced these when trying to fly too close to a NFZ and am pretty sure I got warnings, though they may have been paired with NFZ messaging.
The forced landing was already underway for a full minute before your disconnection, starting as you approached the hill; a hill of rock would be a pretty good radio wave blocker, and it's not like you'd have had any trees to partially obstruct the signal before going down, so I'd expect the cutoff to be pretty abrupt.
I don't know how accurate these map/course projections are, but it sure looks to me like the last location was over a beach, even using the KML in Google Earth and resetting tilt to look straight down. Of course, once your signal was blocked, you might also have lost enough GPS locks to have slipped into ATTI mode and started to drift.
Sadly, the absense of light or signal, even when within line of sight, suggests a hard or wet landing.
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