Stopped recording and the bird shot up 50 feet not responding to controller

[freakshow69]

Hello peeps!

I've had my bird for almost a week now, and today, my third time flying it, I got the 20% battery warning so I brought her down to about 5 feet, I pressed stop record (the little red button) on the iPad screen and she shot straight up about 30 - 40 feet. She was non responsive to the controller even thought there was no disconnection. I started to panic so I pressed the rth button and nothing. It was just hovering. The controls still unresponsive. I hit rth again, still nothing, but this time responding to the controller and was able to bring her down. weird thing is, it never lost connection. I have no idea what I may have done wrong. I'm a noob at this so I'm sure it was something I did or didn't do.

Any ideas?

 

[AeroMirage]

Sounds to me like you were already in RTH when it went straight up.
Have you flown it with a fully charged battery since?
Everyone should initiate RTH purposely to experience how the AC will behave a few times at least.

 

[The Editor]

Yup....? What he said ^^^^^^^^.

Classic RTH behaviour and the reason it stayed and hovered is more likely because you panicked and hit RTH which actually cancelled RTH once it had claimed.

 

[freakshow69]

Thanks for the info. I have flown it since without incident. I have yet to intensionally use rth, but I'll do that on the next flight just to get the feel of it. Thanks again.