endotherm
Captain
Flight distance : 503241 ft
Australia
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The very straight white "trajectory line" is actually not a true representation of the flight path. It seems like at 8:35 you lost telemetry, and at the end of the line you briefly restored telemetry again. The missing data is just ignored in the track screen and is joined by a straight line. Your actual path would have been more "organic" and curved. The fact that it drew a line at all shows that the app received updated location data before it was lost again. As you found, the aircraft was close to the second contact at the end of that line. Usually when you lose telemetry and the aircraft continues on its way without re-establishing itself, you won't get the extra path indicating where it went. In this case you were fortunate that it re-established and gave you a clue where to look.
As an aside, you probably lost the aircraft on this occasion by relying on RTH to get the aircraft back home. In RTH mode the aircraft only flies at about 2/3 power. This can cause the wind to be more powerful than the return speed, and the aircraft gets "blown away". If you recognised this at the time, you could have flown it manually, by pushing the stick fully to maximum deflection in the direction you wished to go (home), and it would likely have had sufficient power to overcome the wind. Other "tricks" include landing in place, where you know the GPS location before it is lost, and physically retrieve it from there. Another "trick" is to descend to lower altitudes, where wind speeds are usually lower and less likely to be blown away. RTH may work in these conditions, or manual control would be more effective, as well as having better visibility. |
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