Gil Barrett
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I have a Blade Chroma Ready to Fly kit with the CGo3 (4k) cam. I have probably 50 hours flight time with this bird. (I am an experienced Quad Copter Pilot - Over a thousand hours between Phantoms, Syma's, Military Units, etc......).
The other night, I kept my Chroma up in the air (intentionally) until the low battery warning signaled on the ST10+. (Altitude at about 300 feet - distance from radio about 500 feet.) At that point, I toggled down the mode switch to Return to Home. Rather than rise somewhat and start to return to home, the unit immediately headed straight down for what would have been a very, very hard landing without regard to where the unit had taken off from. I was able to toggle up to the Angle mode, thus stopping the rapid descent. I then brought the bird to me and safely landed on my "launch pad". Had I been over water, or other ground hazards and not re-toggled to take back control, this could have been disastrous.
After changing batteries, and to satisfy my curiosity, I put in a fresh battery, went up again to an altitude of about 400 feet; went out about 1000 feet away. With plenty of battery power left, I then toggled on Return to Home. As expected, the LED's all went red; the unit began a rapid return to above my launch pad and then began a rapid descent. (Again I toggled off the RTH and went into Angle Mode in order to regain control and prevent a hard landing.).
In the case of the battery that hadn't go into "low battery" mode, the unit did, in fact, return home. In the case of the "low battery", the unit did NOT return home, it merely started rapidly descending from the point where I toggled the RTH mode.
In my personal, subjective opinion, this is messed up and Yuneec or Horizon Hobby, (whoever owns the rights to this bird) should publish a firmware fix for this obvious system error. Without doing so, they are going to continue getting complaints from customers who unwittingly crash because of this defect.
Anyone else have any thoughts or experience with the above ???
The other night, I kept my Chroma up in the air (intentionally) until the low battery warning signaled on the ST10+. (Altitude at about 300 feet - distance from radio about 500 feet.) At that point, I toggled down the mode switch to Return to Home. Rather than rise somewhat and start to return to home, the unit immediately headed straight down for what would have been a very, very hard landing without regard to where the unit had taken off from. I was able to toggle up to the Angle mode, thus stopping the rapid descent. I then brought the bird to me and safely landed on my "launch pad". Had I been over water, or other ground hazards and not re-toggled to take back control, this could have been disastrous.
After changing batteries, and to satisfy my curiosity, I put in a fresh battery, went up again to an altitude of about 400 feet; went out about 1000 feet away. With plenty of battery power left, I then toggled on Return to Home. As expected, the LED's all went red; the unit began a rapid return to above my launch pad and then began a rapid descent. (Again I toggled off the RTH and went into Angle Mode in order to regain control and prevent a hard landing.).
In the case of the battery that hadn't go into "low battery" mode, the unit did, in fact, return home. In the case of the "low battery", the unit did NOT return home, it merely started rapidly descending from the point where I toggled the RTH mode.
In my personal, subjective opinion, this is messed up and Yuneec or Horizon Hobby, (whoever owns the rights to this bird) should publish a firmware fix for this obvious system error. Without doing so, they are going to continue getting complaints from customers who unwittingly crash because of this defect.
Anyone else have any thoughts or experience with the above ???