Thank you for your support on this !!! All I'm getting is "rookie move", "who flies near 20% battery" kind of comments. I flew this thing many times across inlet's, through forests, and many exciting places. This was different, it totally **** it's pants and flew off 300 feet to the middle of a lake. Not normal. So thanks for having a little faith I knew what I was doing.
What are you bleating on about?
The Phantom returns to where it thinks it took off from... sounds like you may have taken off without the correct GPS home lock.
Switching to ATTI mode will have allowed you full control and you could have stopped it flying out into the lake.. doh!
Anyway... this wasn't your thread to hijack... move along, move along...