Swiss Tony
lvl.1
Flight distance : 505459 ft
United Kingdom
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Albert, were you in ATTI mode? If the RTH isn't activated it should've just stayed put. Must've been a beastly feeling, every flight I make I worry about this happening. I'm OCD about calibration and getting it all settled before I take off, but I guess it's a risk we all have to accept as they can just bug out, or get interfered with by conflicting radio, magnetic, electrical stuff etc. I know of a guy who had his fall out of the sky because a Navy Frigate came around the headland and must've pinged something, it came down like a stone! There are even companies making anti drone equipment now too, hopefully it'll be priced to only suit authorities and not miserable idiots.
I've had disconnects (black screen, no data, flight recorder shows the flight ending at that point) 3 times recently, before the last update. The 1st one was at quite a distance, I got panicky and to get it home I hit I hit RTH, it came home and it landed fine. I checked every setting and it happened again a couple of times right in front of me at 10 metres, but still had full flight control and it was happily still using the satellites. Have had FPV glitches too, it's scary. I tested out the Failsafe this week, turned off my Tx and it just landed where it was. Not what I was expecting but it was this 15 metre rule I think. Will check it out again tomorrow somewhere safe.
Julius, I'm sorry for what happened to you. If you had done all the calibrating required, then it is a genuine injustice. I fly over water frequently, it's not inherently more risky in terms of causing malfunctions but if something does go wrong you're boned. 570 metres is well within it's limits so don't pay any attention to anyone telling you that you had no business being that far away, they don't know your experience level so are making baseless assumptions. That said, if this is your 1st quad, then you were taking risks with it but we shouldn't fly them as if they WILL malfunction, otherwise we'd be very limited in our sorties and it would be rubbish. |
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