Most recent flight of Mavic Air 2 with RC231, it was out about 9000 ft and I started having intermittent connection problems. This didn't worry me much, since I was still line-of site and had previously reached a range of 15,000 ft without communication difficulty, but maybe there was strong radio interference. Suddenly the RC lost contact with the drone and could not re-establish. I tried moving to a higher location, power cycling my iPhone, power cycling the RC, all to no avail.
Fortunately the drone did return to launch point as it should, after what seemed like forever, but even after I could see it and it landed at my feet, I still couldn't re-connect. Not until the drone was powered off and back on could I regain control. Playing back the flight log from the phone showed that, after a number of complaints about signal, the last line of the log was, "Aircraft not connected with RC," followed by a bunch of other errors. I have not yet tried to examine the on-board flight log, if indeed we mere mortals have to tools to do so.
My questions are:
1) Is this behavior normal during an extended interference or signal-strength problem?
2) Is there anything else I could have done to re-establish connection?
3) Is there any way to prevent such a disturbing event from recurring?
Best Regards to All -- jclarkw
Fortunately the drone did return to launch point as it should, after what seemed like forever, but even after I could see it and it landed at my feet, I still couldn't re-connect. Not until the drone was powered off and back on could I regain control. Playing back the flight log from the phone showed that, after a number of complaints about signal, the last line of the log was, "Aircraft not connected with RC," followed by a bunch of other errors. I have not yet tried to examine the on-board flight log, if indeed we mere mortals have to tools to do so.
My questions are:
1) Is this behavior normal during an extended interference or signal-strength problem?
2) Is there anything else I could have done to re-establish connection?
3) Is there any way to prevent such a disturbing event from recurring?
Best Regards to All -- jclarkw