thanks, Frank. i appreciate your help. here is a summary of the events as i have been able to piece them together:Hey I been on this non stop but I just wanted to drop in here and let you know it will be either later or tomorrow until I have something. I can see where and when you selected to GoHome. It looks like the a/c (a/c = aircraft) was given additional commands to return home but the a/c ignored them and continued on. I have not read any part of this thread so I don't know if I'm repeating stuff that you already know or have been told by others. I will say if I had to make a call based on what I have seen so far, it would be all surrounding the compass.
Btw, also just to let you know there is a couple of columns of data that I have seen numerous times but never had to use them for any reason. But I do not know what exactly they are suppose to represent. So I have sent out a email to another Guru to get his thoughts on what they apply to. I have a feeling these may provide some good insight. I have to take a 30 minute break and then I will research these two columns more if the response I'm waiting on hasn't came in at that point.
-Frank
the a/c took off left as soon as it got to about 6' off the ground (it looks like i used auto takeoff according to the logs, but i don't remember). i had read enough in the forums to know that it was going to be uncontrollable at that point. i pushed the left stick to give it some height to make it over some two story houses and anything else in the neighborhood (all other attempts to control the a/c failed), and then i hit RTH in the hopes that it would bring it home. it didn't, but it did stop the a/c from going left, rotated it to face home, and then begin to fly right at a high rate of speed (i believe i saw 57 mph on my screen). it flew almost a mile before i lost contact with it. i thought all was lost, so i jumped in the car and headed to the last known location to gather the scraps. it was at that spot that my controller reconnected with the a/c, and it appeared to begin to head home at that point. i cancelled the RTH and flew it back to me and landed it. after looking at the flight data from the controller, it looks like it drifted a hundred feet or so once i lost connection to it.
there are some pics of the flight path as well as a video of it in this thread somewhere. i don't have them here at work, or i would reupload them to this post.