P4 and flying bugs. RTH issue

[DJS]

Ok so mind you after today I have a whopping 58 minutes of flight time on my P4. After taking the aircraft to 250 feet I noticed numerous dead bugs on the body and props. Not a big deal as they washed right off I just found the experience .......odd.

I was playing with RTH and found the aircraft descending directly down from the position it was in when I sent the command. I did calibrate prior to take off, I did get the verbal message advising the RTH point was set. I'm sure , as a newbie, I'm doing something wrong. What did I do correctly? I was in a huge empty field with the aircraft only 75 feet away as I experimented with RTH.....nothing to hit. A painless learning experience. No I know what I need to work on during my next flight.

 

[Elijah_Cambridge]

Make sure that in the the drones failsafe mode is set to return to home not land

 

[Meta4]

I was playing with RTH and found the aircraft descending directly down from the position it was in when I sent the command. I was in a huge empty field with the aircraft only 75 feet away as I experimented with RTH.....nothing to hit.

I've highlighted the solution to your mystery.
You need to go a little further away from the home point.

 

[Meta4]

Make sure that in the the drones failsafe mode is set to return to home not land

RTH is the default value and very few people ever change it.

 

[DJS]

I've highlighted the solution to your mystery.
You need to go a little further away from the home point.

Thank you for the information. More testing/ learning tomorrow.

 

[Deleted member 62848]

Ok so mind you after today I have a whopping 58 minutes of flight time on my P4. After taking the aircraft to 250 feet I noticed numerous dead bugs on the body and props. Not a big deal as they washed right off I just found the experience .......odd.

I was playing with RTH and found the aircraft descending directly down from the position it was in when I sent the command. I did calibrate prior to take off, I did get the verbal message advising the RTH point was set. I'm sure , as a newbie, I'm doing something wrong. What did I do correctly? I was in a huge empty field with the aircraft only 75 feet away as I experimented with RTH.....nothing to hit. A painless learning experience. No I know what I need to work on during my next flight.

When you press rc signal lost you get these choices

this for my p34k but I think it the same on p4