This was scary. Only a few flights with my new Mavic Zoom and was just having a short flight at the back of the house the other day.
I hit RTH, because I wanted to see what route it would take and then cancelled it, only to find it had lost connection! Looking at the log, there is nothing between 390ft and 7ft. Also there seems to be a 2 minute gap.
It did hover, but was slowly coming down into the vegetable garden, where there are lots of sticks, canes etc! No response from sticks so I switched the controller off and on again and , thankfully it re-connected and I was able to land safely.
Phew!!! It has really knocked my confidence, especially after losing the last one and because I often fly over water.
2 things. Why!!! and did I do the right thing in re-booting the controller?
I’m afraid I didn’t notice the colour of the LED.
Yes I did press & hold the RTH and it did RTH, but I’m not sure at what point it lost signal. It is set to RTH on signal loss so it could’ve been anywhere between the farthest and the nearest point. My guess is, from the log that it lost signal when 1ft horizontal and 390ft vertical.
Yes, I spend quite a lot of time reading the manual. In bed usually !
You’re right Dave. Actually I think I raised up to 8 ft before it lost connection. However, I was under the impression that I had cancelled RTH but no mention of that.
The only thing I can say is that there are some power lines about 30m away, although not high voltage, just 440V 3 phase. I wouldn’t have thought that would affect transmission though.
Yes, I’ve never been worried by it. I don’t think the data transmission frequency would appear in the electrical spectrum, maybe only a very feint harmonic, if anything.
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I’ve ordered another but it hasn’t arrived yet.
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