AG0N-Gary
First Officer
Flight distance : 700846 ft
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13ringinheat Posted at 2018-9-3 10:27
I could not....the drone was not that far from me but it was hidden behind trees and given that the area does not have much ambient light, i was not able to see it at all.
Do remember that VEGETATION is a signal attenuator. That's why you should try to always keep your drone in LINE OF SIGHT, even if you can't see it. That means don't let anything come between you and the drone except air. Also always keep your antennas properly oriented toward the drone.
As others have said, you panicked. I've done it too. I almost lost my Mavic recently while demonstrating to a non-drone person. The wind was blowing a little, but not hard enough that it caused any problem. I got to altitude and started losing positional control. Thinking I must have gotten up into stronger wind, I pulled the stick down trying to bring it back down. It kept "drifting" away from me. I could see it was getting further and further away from me. Finally I went hands off and regathered my senses. In reality, I had been pulling down on the wrong stick when trying to bring it down. It was backing further and further away from me because I told it to (it was facing me). After figuring out that I had been erroneously controlling it, I brought it back home. There wasn't a thing wrong with the drone, controller, or wind. It was all me.
Something others haven't brought up to you may be worth keeping in the back of your mind. As others have said, don't mess with resetting the home point. It is stored at takeoff and you never know when you'll need it. Leave it alone. If you think you truly have lost control or connection with the drone, turn the remote control OFF. When the drone loses signal, it should return to the takeoff location (as in RTH). Always be sure that your RTH altitude it set at a sensible number, so that no matter where you go in general area where you are flying, you'll always clear all obstacles when it has to come home and land.
Don't panic. When it looks like things are going wrong, take hands off of the controller and take a couple of deep breaths. Then think about what you're doing and correct the situation. You may have (most likely would have) regained full control and video just by pushing the altitude up to clear the vegetation and get back to line of sight. As others have said, you more than likely still had full control. You just lost the video feed (it's the first to fail with weak signal).
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