Regarding distance flown away from you I did a little experiment yesterday, as follows . . .
There's a flatish valley near where I live, it goes on for about a mile and 3/4. I took off and went to 397 feet altitude and flew up the valley, my idea was to see if I could reach the end where it levels out and carries on for a few more miles. Line of sight (LOS flying) all the way, although too far really to see the Phantom at that distance. I had a couple of video loss moments but then at 4978 feet of distance I lost RC signal. As required the Phantom did as it should, alerted me and went into RTH mode and came back to the T/O point under its own direction. Perfect.
However WHY only 5000 feet distance, well I believe the reason was this, about 70 feet from the T/O point (and directly on route) was a group of mature Ash trees (about40 feet tall and in full leaf), whilst I was fairly close to the T/O pint this was no problem, however as I got further away so the LOV between the Transmitter and the Phantom got narrowed down until one was obscured from the other by the trees, thus loss of signal.
Would those with more experience than me agree that this was probably the cause?
I also later went into 'Sport Mode', I've not don't that much. I recorded 74.9 mph, whooo that,s pretty darn fast, it brought a devilish grin to my face!
There's a flatish valley near where I live, it goes on for about a mile and 3/4. I took off and went to 397 feet altitude and flew up the valley, my idea was to see if I could reach the end where it levels out and carries on for a few more miles. Line of sight (LOS flying) all the way, although too far really to see the Phantom at that distance. I had a couple of video loss moments but then at 4978 feet of distance I lost RC signal. As required the Phantom did as it should, alerted me and went into RTH mode and came back to the T/O point under its own direction. Perfect.
However WHY only 5000 feet distance, well I believe the reason was this, about 70 feet from the T/O point (and directly on route) was a group of mature Ash trees (about40 feet tall and in full leaf), whilst I was fairly close to the T/O pint this was no problem, however as I got further away so the LOV between the Transmitter and the Phantom got narrowed down until one was obscured from the other by the trees, thus loss of signal.
Would those with more experience than me agree that this was probably the cause?
I also later went into 'Sport Mode', I've not don't that much. I recorded 74.9 mph, whooo that,s pretty darn fast, it brought a devilish grin to my face!
