Hracek
lvl.2
Flight distance : 1352083 ft
United States
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So yesterday I was in a scary situation, 25% battery and 2500 ft away. In RTH mode the drone's software sets the speed at around 21-22 mph, so I didn't think I was going to get back in time. My plan in my mind was to cancel RTH and go into sport mode as battery life isn't proportianal with the speed you come back at and actually helps if you come back at a faster speed (I'll explain later). So when I click the Ok on the prompt when it says "Are you sure you want to cancel RTH" the app completely stops responding and I don't know whether or not the cancelation went through or not. At about this point I HAD 18% battery and 800ft more to go but since the app stopped responding, I didn't have instrument readings and didn't know if I had control or if RTH did. I waited until I was sure it should've returned until I restarted the transmitter into a black screen where my RC's instrument readings read 640ft away and 0ft in height meaning the drone had landed. I went to the red arrow on my map and retrieved the drone in a field nearly missing trees vertically.
When you have the drone at 42 degrees, you spend less energy holding the drone up and more energy covering distance, however since it isn't beyond 45 degrees the drone won't lost altitude, sometimes the reason you do lose altitude in sport mode is the drone spending other energy in trying to keep the drone on course, crosswinds, etc.
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