Just purchased P3A. On 2nd flight in Beginner mode I had frightening experience.
At limit of beginner range (30m) I decided to try RTH. Instead of coming back to me, it immediately
flew off in opposite direction. I realise now that I should have cancelled RTH to restore control.
In the panic I tried to bring it back with the controls, but without success. It disappeared from sight over the golf course !!
I got in my car with the controller and headed after it. I could see the aircraft icon on the map view and
noted it wasn't moving any more. Eventually I found it in a field sitting pretty. I am very, very lucky that it had landed okay.
Back at home I examined the flight log to try and find out what had caused the flyaway. I found an entry with
appmessage "HOME POINT UPDATED"; and home distance changed from 17m to 1300m !!!
Later entries state "Returning Home" and then "auto landing".
I can't understand why the home point should change so much.
However I recall that when I pressed the RTH button a message popped up in the DJIGO app asking whether
to return to original home point or "Current Position". I think I may have touched "current position" instead of original position. I thought that "current position" meant controller's current position. Is this correct??
How does RC know its current position ? I don't think it has an internal GPS ??
Does RC current position come from mobile/tablet? I use a Samsung tablet with GPS for DGIGO app.
It is fairly accurate, and never 1.3km out !! I was in wide open space with no obstacles, and the aircraft was seeing 18 satellites at time of incident.
Does anyone know what was going on to cause this problem. Is it a GO app problem? Or tablet issue ?
I'm nervous about testing RTH again. Advice would be appreciated, as I am a novice with drones.
At limit of beginner range (30m) I decided to try RTH. Instead of coming back to me, it immediately
flew off in opposite direction. I realise now that I should have cancelled RTH to restore control.
In the panic I tried to bring it back with the controls, but without success. It disappeared from sight over the golf course !!
I got in my car with the controller and headed after it. I could see the aircraft icon on the map view and
noted it wasn't moving any more. Eventually I found it in a field sitting pretty. I am very, very lucky that it had landed okay.
Back at home I examined the flight log to try and find out what had caused the flyaway. I found an entry with
appmessage "HOME POINT UPDATED"; and home distance changed from 17m to 1300m !!!
Later entries state "Returning Home" and then "auto landing".
I can't understand why the home point should change so much.
However I recall that when I pressed the RTH button a message popped up in the DJIGO app asking whether
to return to original home point or "Current Position". I think I may have touched "current position" instead of original position. I thought that "current position" meant controller's current position. Is this correct??
How does RC know its current position ? I don't think it has an internal GPS ??
Does RC current position come from mobile/tablet? I use a Samsung tablet with GPS for DGIGO app.
It is fairly accurate, and never 1.3km out !! I was in wide open space with no obstacles, and the aircraft was seeing 18 satellites at time of incident.
Does anyone know what was going on to cause this problem. Is it a GO app problem? Or tablet issue ?
I'm nervous about testing RTH again. Advice would be appreciated, as I am a novice with drones.