This pertains to, if in your settings you select "control signal lost" -(RTH)- function enabled... I want to know for a fact or not that when a phantom 3 is in "critical battery- landing mode" and you loose signal completely with the rc to the ac will the phantom 3 STILL try to return home, or will it just STAY where it's at and continue to LAND?
I would have to assume that when the aircraft is in critical battery- landing mode... That it will land no matter what.. Whether it has a signal from the rc or not.. But I want to know for sure..
I ask this because I do a lot of long range flying.. And the other day I went 40k feet straight out but because of the cold weather (temperature dropped to mid 30s Fahrenheit) I only got barley 25min of flight instead of my usual 27-28 min flight time (battery mod, antenna mod) And because of this I ended up being forced to land 12k feet short of my home point.. The battery was critical and the quad was in -landing mode. I was able to successfully bring the quad safely down at an old baseball diamond, I got it down roughly to 90 feet for a landing when I lost signal completely.. Due to interference-trees/buildings.. Luckily the quad did not try to return home as it was programmed to in my settings, but instead it just continued to land itself exactly where I was attempting to land it manually before I lost signal.
All was good, and after a 10 min drive to the location, there she was sitting pretty and unscaved right in the middle of the baseball diamond where I had intended it to be.
In this case, critical battery-landing mode DID override the rth when signal was lost.. But will this happen Everytime?
I basically just want to make sure that I didn't just get lucky.. I want to be sure so that if this ever happens again, that I can depend on the quad reacting the same way Everytime if in critical battery and I can find a safe landing zone and land it with out issues.
I was going to test this out myself yesterday on my day off but the weather was horrible.. Basically what I was gonna do was start the quad up in one location, let it get a good home lock.. Then fly it out 100 feet or so in one direction and let it hover until critical battery. Then turn off my controller and see if the quad continues to land right where it's at.. Or if it try's to fly 100 feet back to its home point with a critical battery.
Im curious if anyone has tried this.. And of the ppl who have been in critical battery when still far from home, what did your quad do? Did it return, or did it land where it was?
Iv Google searched and have found some ppl say it has tried to return, yet some ppl say it had landed right where it was.
The answer I want is that it lands right where it's at, because for me, if I'm out that far away with a critical batt, and I try to land it safely, and the quad tries to rth, could end up in a tree, a road, or worse.
Some ppl may say, well why not just choose "hover" or "landing" instead of rth in your settings for control signal lost.. And the answer is, I still want it to rth if I DO have enough batt power. Also it's nice cuz when you loose signal, the quad will come back into your signal range and you can then re-gain control .. So this is why I like "rth" selected on "control signal lost"...But what I don't want is it to try to come home on a critical battery when I can easily and Safely land it myself where it's at.
Here is my flight of the other day, and where I was forced to land it.
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I would have to assume that when the aircraft is in critical battery- landing mode... That it will land no matter what.. Whether it has a signal from the rc or not.. But I want to know for sure..
I ask this because I do a lot of long range flying.. And the other day I went 40k feet straight out but because of the cold weather (temperature dropped to mid 30s Fahrenheit) I only got barley 25min of flight instead of my usual 27-28 min flight time (battery mod, antenna mod) And because of this I ended up being forced to land 12k feet short of my home point.. The battery was critical and the quad was in -landing mode. I was able to successfully bring the quad safely down at an old baseball diamond, I got it down roughly to 90 feet for a landing when I lost signal completely.. Due to interference-trees/buildings.. Luckily the quad did not try to return home as it was programmed to in my settings, but instead it just continued to land itself exactly where I was attempting to land it manually before I lost signal.
All was good, and after a 10 min drive to the location, there she was sitting pretty and unscaved right in the middle of the baseball diamond where I had intended it to be.
In this case, critical battery-landing mode DID override the rth when signal was lost.. But will this happen Everytime?
I basically just want to make sure that I didn't just get lucky.. I want to be sure so that if this ever happens again, that I can depend on the quad reacting the same way Everytime if in critical battery and I can find a safe landing zone and land it with out issues.
I was going to test this out myself yesterday on my day off but the weather was horrible.. Basically what I was gonna do was start the quad up in one location, let it get a good home lock.. Then fly it out 100 feet or so in one direction and let it hover until critical battery. Then turn off my controller and see if the quad continues to land right where it's at.. Or if it try's to fly 100 feet back to its home point with a critical battery.
Im curious if anyone has tried this.. And of the ppl who have been in critical battery when still far from home, what did your quad do? Did it return, or did it land where it was?
Iv Google searched and have found some ppl say it has tried to return, yet some ppl say it had landed right where it was.
The answer I want is that it lands right where it's at, because for me, if I'm out that far away with a critical batt, and I try to land it safely, and the quad tries to rth, could end up in a tree, a road, or worse.
Some ppl may say, well why not just choose "hover" or "landing" instead of rth in your settings for control signal lost.. And the answer is, I still want it to rth if I DO have enough batt power. Also it's nice cuz when you loose signal, the quad will come back into your signal range and you can then re-gain control .. So this is why I like "rth" selected on "control signal lost"...But what I don't want is it to try to come home on a critical battery when I can easily and Safely land it myself where it's at.
Here is my flight of the other day, and where I was forced to land it.
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