last weekend I was hanging out at Cannon beach in OR near Goonie rock / Haystack Rock. It's roughly 360 feet high and I was flying around it taking photos and videos. Second or third battery in, I took the bird to the back side and lost signal.
I made two mistakes, lessons learned (hopefully).
1. I knew I wasn't high enough to see the bird on the other side of the rock, started losing signal but kept flying behind the rock. I wasn't terrified as I could just walk around the beach a little to regain signal. I was only a few hundred meters away if that. Keep LOS, got it...
2. I didn't reconfigure the RTH to hit 120 meters on return if signal lost. I didn't even think of this until I nearly shat my pants and realized if RTH worked as expected, the bird was going to kiss the rock...
a quick walk around the rock a little and I picked up the signal again only to find the bird hovering where I left it (thankfully, and in reality, it wasn't such a quick walk, there was some butt puckering and, well you get the picture)
if you've made it this far, thanks. I've been looking at the logs, but don't know enough to read them well yet. Lookin for anyone to pitch in and give me an idea on where I went wrong, or if the aircraft had a fault with RTH.
HealthyDrones.com - Innovative flight data analysis that matters
this flight was with either the iPad air 2 or iPhone 6s+ (I alternated and this could be my other problem with different settings)
thanks in advance
I made two mistakes, lessons learned (hopefully).
1. I knew I wasn't high enough to see the bird on the other side of the rock, started losing signal but kept flying behind the rock. I wasn't terrified as I could just walk around the beach a little to regain signal. I was only a few hundred meters away if that. Keep LOS, got it...
2. I didn't reconfigure the RTH to hit 120 meters on return if signal lost. I didn't even think of this until I nearly shat my pants and realized if RTH worked as expected, the bird was going to kiss the rock...
a quick walk around the rock a little and I picked up the signal again only to find the bird hovering where I left it (thankfully, and in reality, it wasn't such a quick walk, there was some butt puckering and, well you get the picture)
if you've made it this far, thanks. I've been looking at the logs, but don't know enough to read them well yet. Lookin for anyone to pitch in and give me an idea on where I went wrong, or if the aircraft had a fault with RTH.
HealthyDrones.com - Innovative flight data analysis that matters
this flight was with either the iPad air 2 or iPhone 6s+ (I alternated and this could be my other problem with different settings)
thanks in advance