Mark The Droner
Second Officer
Flight distance : 2917 ft
United States
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If you carefully study the graphic on page 14, it should be clear, although I don't blame you for wanting to ask questions to confirm. It is a bit complicated. And you don't want to make a mistake. Sorry.
Height and altitude almost always mean the same thing in these manuals. The lone exception is when it talks about max service ceiling above sea level.
As stated in post #2, the Phantom only understands the height from the homepoint. It doesn't know about hills and valleys. It is blind to them.
In RTH, the Phantom will first turn towards home and then begin to ascend to the minimum RTH height. BUT... if it senses you have moved a stick on the controller while it's ascending, it will stop ascending and come straight home at that height, provided that height is at least 20 meters. There are people who have crashed into hills during RTH because they weren't aware of this. They complain that their RTH height was high enough, but they weren't aware that they had cancelled the RTH ascent. So be careful of this.
The Phantom won't descend to the min RTH height.
When it's over home point, it will descend. Again - be wary of your sticks. If you are absent mindedly moving the sticks, the Phantom will respond to the stick movement and could move away from home point as it's descending.
https://dl.djicdn.com/downloads/ ... ser+Manual+V1.0.pdf
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