1St Disconnected experience with app on ios

[Dazzauk]

So was flying around the beach today and after swapping from video to camera mode the app on my iphone 6+ suddenly said disconnected. Luckily the drone was in visible sight at around 80ft altitude and probably 130 ish foot away from me so i brought it home and turned everything off and reconnected and all was good again.

Would just like to know why and what happened really? I had complete control of the phantom and it never initiated a RTH or anything it just hovered in place, now this is all fine when you can see the drone but what if i was a few hundred feet high and out of naked eye sight? Dont want it to happen again.

I guess i need to upload my flight log which is fine if someone could tell me how to?

Thanks gyus

Darren

 

[Philltayl]

The thing to remember is that your phone/tab does not really control the P3, that is the job of the RC. You can fly without using any app but you then dont have any visuals/telemetry .

 

[Dazzauk]

The thing to remember is that your phone/tab does not really control the P3, that is the job of the RC. You can fly without using any app but you then dont have any visuals/telemetry .

Hey buddy. Yeah completely agree, however if the phantom is 100ft away from me or so I have no way of getting her home because I can't see where it it Lol.

I guess I could toggle the s2 switch and rth should kick in right?

Darren

 

[Philltayl]

Hey buddy. Yeah completely agree, however if the phantom is 100ft away from me or so I have no way of getting her home because I can't see where it it Lol.

I guess I could toggle the s2 switch and rth should kick in right?

Darren

Yep, but if you can't see it at 100' maybe you should go to specsavers....LOL

 

[Dazzauk]

Yep, but if you can't see it at 100' maybe you should go to specsavers....LOL

Ha ha very good dude. I meant 1000ft.

 

[weedoman]

Had same issue with my P3P on the weekend. Am researching previous examples on here. Complete flight control but app disconnected. Was a little anxiety inducing! Glad I had sight of my bird at the time.

Subsequent flights same day/location had poor video downlink. Not sure if related. Decided to pack up and go home. Quit whilst ahead.