hybrid33
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Flight distance : 912224 ft
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Betamace Posted at 2017-1-14 15:45
I don't know because I've never flown beyond of control range. My RC status led turns green as soon as the drone starts to boot and it never turns red unless I power down the drone.
With my first P3, I've flown out of video transmission range many times and never had the RTH kick in. Maybe you did not notice a prompt asking if you wanted to RTH? I would assume after a time out period it would switch from a hover mode and initiate RTH.
I'm not trying to be rude, but first of all, I still have line of sight. Secondly, I have flown on purpose watching just the screen, and it shows full signal, all bars, perfect video feed, spot on gps, and then it just shows 'disconnected' and a red light pops on my RC. I've tested and educated myself a lot on these things. This very issue never happened before the firmware update. Not once. If I flew it to far, it would show on the screen, Disconnected, returning to home. Never once failed me.
So, with all that said, today, I had my kid keep an eye on my drone up in the air, and I stared at the device that had video. It was clipping right along, and all the sudden 'disconnected' and the red light popped up on my RC. So I moved the drone back and forth in the air, and it was still responding. Light was still red on the RC, and that typically means there's no connection to the drone right? I flip the fail safe RTH switch on the RC, and the drone never returned on its own. I again tested, shut the RC off, and it finally returned.
This is a new issue with the firmware update. I didn't miss a prompt, I keep line of sight at all times, no modifications, all I did was update the firmware. All I wanted to know was 'why is my drone not returning when it loses signal since the firmware update; or; Why am I losing connection to my iphone and why is the red light showing on the rc, but I still have full control.'
Betamace, i'm glad youre not having trouble with the firmware update, but there are those of us that are. It's not always a user issue when the user is trying to do everything right. I also am missing those minutes in my flight logs where the 'link' light is red, but I still have control. Kinda like the thing lost connection. Again, no flight logs exist for the time the rc light is red, but I DO have control. Is there a missing prompt for that too? |
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