I flew a beta app from Hover this afternoon. That mission went fine and I ended the program by sliding it off the screen in iOS. Then used Go App 4 to fly a normal photo mission. Again no issues.
On the 3rd flight with Go App 4 at about 3800 feet with a clear line of site, the controller appeared to have lost video and communications. (I was lucky that just prior to the flight I set the RTH to 150 meters) I attempted to gain height and move to a cleared line of sight which I could see if it worked or not. No joy
I drove over to an area where I should have been closer but still no signal. Still no luck. Press RTH a few time out of desperation. Signal still dark. But controller was beeping like it was in RTH mode.
Drove back to an area near the launch site. No Signal.
Power cycled controller No Signal.
Rebooted iPad and power cycled controller: Got signal and found it had returned home and landed with 40% battery. Took off and flew a short hop over to current location.
Logs uploaded to Healthy Drones didn't show anything odd. It had strong signal up to the point it dropped then stopped. The next log was my take off and landing back to my location.
I was preparing to go grab my P4P to scout the last known location, but it never came to that.
Haven't flown this A/C since it happened. Wondering if there is a log on the A/C itself that may have been captured. The video was recording the whole time. Funny thing in it was the camera pitched up to 30 degrees and captured an inbound A/C at 5000 or so to Sky Harbor. I was well outside class B for PHX and outside class D for KFFZ.
I'm getting to old for this ^&^%#%^#^&*
On the 3rd flight with Go App 4 at about 3800 feet with a clear line of site, the controller appeared to have lost video and communications. (I was lucky that just prior to the flight I set the RTH to 150 meters) I attempted to gain height and move to a cleared line of sight which I could see if it worked or not. No joy
I drove over to an area where I should have been closer but still no signal. Still no luck. Press RTH a few time out of desperation. Signal still dark. But controller was beeping like it was in RTH mode.
Drove back to an area near the launch site. No Signal.
Power cycled controller No Signal.
Rebooted iPad and power cycled controller: Got signal and found it had returned home and landed with 40% battery. Took off and flew a short hop over to current location.
Logs uploaded to Healthy Drones didn't show anything odd. It had strong signal up to the point it dropped then stopped. The next log was my take off and landing back to my location.
I was preparing to go grab my P4P to scout the last known location, but it never came to that.
Haven't flown this A/C since it happened. Wondering if there is a log on the A/C itself that may have been captured. The video was recording the whole time. Funny thing in it was the camera pitched up to 30 degrees and captured an inbound A/C at 5000 or so to Sky Harbor. I was well outside class B for PHX and outside class D for KFFZ.
I'm getting to old for this ^&^%#%^#^&*
