I was flying my p4p+ this evening and started doing a point of interest orbit as soon as I started it I got a message on my controller screen the app crashed asking if I wanted to close it. I didn't know if closing the app would make me lose control of the drone so I didn't close it. I tried to Pilot the drone back to me with manual control which I had but as soon as I let off the sticks it would try to fly back to its poi orbit.
Also during manual control I had no altitude control with the left stick. I flew it over a patch of bushes and tried dropping both sticks down and in to cut the motors and drop it in the brush but it did not respond to emergency shut down. My only other option to get it out of the sky was fly it into a tree and pray.
That was not as easy as it sounds because the collision avoidance was fighting me on letting me do that. I happened to get it to catch a branch and it got caught up in the leaves and hit the ground hard enough to break off one of the landing skids.
So all in all how should I have handled an app crash midflight while performing a "smart" flight maneuver?
Also during manual control I had no altitude control with the left stick. I flew it over a patch of bushes and tried dropping both sticks down and in to cut the motors and drop it in the brush but it did not respond to emergency shut down. My only other option to get it out of the sky was fly it into a tree and pray.
That was not as easy as it sounds because the collision avoidance was fighting me on letting me do that. I happened to get it to catch a branch and it got caught up in the leaves and hit the ground hard enough to break off one of the landing skids.
So all in all how should I have handled an app crash midflight while performing a "smart" flight maneuver?