I'm used to failsafe for the f550 and s1000, and I've watched Ty's vid on P3 failsafe, but I've got a few questions about the fine details which came to mind reading that thread about the chap who walked his P3 home and had it fly-away to a failsafe landing at the take-off home point:
Does the vision positionning sys kick-in during the last few meters of a failsafe landing or does the P3 just return to a recorded GPS altitude which is bound to have error in it? Does a single click on the return home button always return control to the pilot in any situation? What about the old trick of flicking the IOC switch? Does that still work? Maybe I'm old school, but unless I'm actually passed out, I'd rather take control for the last descent and land myself. I've heard that in accreditation courses, failsafe landings are regarded as the ultimate backup for when the pilot is ill or loses contact.
And finally, in the app, there is an option to set the home point at the RC. Is this function active? Presumably it takes the GPS XYZ coords from the tablet? If so, how does the P3 manage a failsafe landing if the ground changes height (I guess this relates to my 1st question about the VPS)?
~Thx
Does the vision positionning sys kick-in during the last few meters of a failsafe landing or does the P3 just return to a recorded GPS altitude which is bound to have error in it? Does a single click on the return home button always return control to the pilot in any situation? What about the old trick of flicking the IOC switch? Does that still work? Maybe I'm old school, but unless I'm actually passed out, I'd rather take control for the last descent and land myself. I've heard that in accreditation courses, failsafe landings are regarded as the ultimate backup for when the pilot is ill or loses contact.
And finally, in the app, there is an option to set the home point at the RC. Is this function active? Presumably it takes the GPS XYZ coords from the tablet? If so, how does the P3 manage a failsafe landing if the ground changes height (I guess this relates to my 1st question about the VPS)?
~Thx