Last night, just before sunset, my wife and I were going through some training on the P4P 2.0. The battery level was about 31% and about 6 minutes til RTH.
We were about to set up an Active Tracking test, when the video feed turned monochrome and froze and the status changed to "Aircraft Disconnected". The AC was within 20' of us, as we were preparing to frame us in the camera for Active Track.
We'd used this field a dozen times this month for practice and nothing like this ever happened til now. The only difference was it was hot outside today.. upper 80s at sunset.
I tried shutting off and restarting the RC, but the AC would not reconnect. I rebooted the Crystal Sky Ultra, but still came up "disconnected". My wife manually landed the drone and we powered down and changed batteries. Everything powered up normally and we continued our training.
What concerns me is if this had happened with the drone BLOS, we'd have no way to know which way the drone was oriented or which direction to turn and how much in order to get on a homebound heading. The fact that rebooting the RC and CS units did not reconnect really concerns me. I realize we could press RTH and probably the drone would return, but if flying a long mission, especially in close quarters, like up a river with dense foliage overhanging the banks, such a situation would be dangerous.
Given that we still had manual control of the drone, the 'disconnected' message is probably DJI Go 4 somehow losing connection with the RC itself and or the craft. But the inability to reestablish connection in-flight is the concerning aspect of this.
What happened and what are the possible causes?
We were about to set up an Active Tracking test, when the video feed turned monochrome and froze and the status changed to "Aircraft Disconnected". The AC was within 20' of us, as we were preparing to frame us in the camera for Active Track.
We'd used this field a dozen times this month for practice and nothing like this ever happened til now. The only difference was it was hot outside today.. upper 80s at sunset.
I tried shutting off and restarting the RC, but the AC would not reconnect. I rebooted the Crystal Sky Ultra, but still came up "disconnected". My wife manually landed the drone and we powered down and changed batteries. Everything powered up normally and we continued our training.
What concerns me is if this had happened with the drone BLOS, we'd have no way to know which way the drone was oriented or which direction to turn and how much in order to get on a homebound heading. The fact that rebooting the RC and CS units did not reconnect really concerns me. I realize we could press RTH and probably the drone would return, but if flying a long mission, especially in close quarters, like up a river with dense foliage overhanging the banks, such a situation would be dangerous.
Given that we still had manual control of the drone, the 'disconnected' message is probably DJI Go 4 somehow losing connection with the RC itself and or the craft. But the inability to reestablish connection in-flight is the concerning aspect of this.
What happened and what are the possible causes?