Hi ! I am starter in drones and this is my first thread.
So, recently, I bought brand new P3A. I took my family out to the park for the first fly. I done compass calibration at the park, turned motors on, pushed trigger up, than try it to fly it around and little bit upper and so. Joy was about 3 minutes, until I pressed RTH on screen and confirmed it with slide on screen. Phantom was start to pick up altitude and moving away, somewhere above the trees. I started to think - it's strange... , but Phantom knows what it is doing, anyway, I try to cancel RTH after couple of seconds, as drone was about 100m away or so and I couldn't see it any more, because of trees around. So , I started to controll it manualy, but I realised that I'm confused and lost in area, as I wasn't ready for that kind of action. I pressed RTH again on controller, at the time on screen Phantom was about 600m away and was star loosing video. Drone was " returning to home point" , telemetry was showing it comes towards to me, the gap was about 300m, when it decides to land somewhere, than suddenly I lost any comunication with drone. All in all from start to end was about 8-9 minutes . You can imagine.. my 4yrs old boy in tears, my missis nearly in tears and angry on me (what an expensive sh8t I bought) etc. I raced with car to location , where it landed (1.3miles) away and of course, we did not find it there any more... as it was at busy street and football ground.
I contacted DJI, they investigated all details and replayed to me, that is a case of warranty and they will send to me a replacement.
Anyway , now I am a litle bit scared, as you possibly can imagine... I would like to hear any good advice and recommendations from you guys, what to do to avoid that kind of bad experience, how to double check , home point is recorded as in stone and Phantom will not choose on its own new HM miles away? Thank you!
P.s. sorry for bad grammar, as english is not my native.
So, recently, I bought brand new P3A. I took my family out to the park for the first fly. I done compass calibration at the park, turned motors on, pushed trigger up, than try it to fly it around and little bit upper and so. Joy was about 3 minutes, until I pressed RTH on screen and confirmed it with slide on screen. Phantom was start to pick up altitude and moving away, somewhere above the trees. I started to think - it's strange... , but Phantom knows what it is doing, anyway, I try to cancel RTH after couple of seconds, as drone was about 100m away or so and I couldn't see it any more, because of trees around. So , I started to controll it manualy, but I realised that I'm confused and lost in area, as I wasn't ready for that kind of action. I pressed RTH again on controller, at the time on screen Phantom was about 600m away and was star loosing video. Drone was " returning to home point" , telemetry was showing it comes towards to me, the gap was about 300m, when it decides to land somewhere, than suddenly I lost any comunication with drone. All in all from start to end was about 8-9 minutes . You can imagine.. my 4yrs old boy in tears, my missis nearly in tears and angry on me (what an expensive sh8t I bought) etc. I raced with car to location , where it landed (1.3miles) away and of course, we did not find it there any more... as it was at busy street and football ground.
I contacted DJI, they investigated all details and replayed to me, that is a case of warranty and they will send to me a replacement.
Anyway , now I am a litle bit scared, as you possibly can imagine... I would like to hear any good advice and recommendations from you guys, what to do to avoid that kind of bad experience, how to double check , home point is recorded as in stone and Phantom will not choose on its own new HM miles away? Thank you!
P.s. sorry for bad grammar, as english is not my native.
