Hi, may I ask you a question: I have purchased Tornado H920 (not plus) with ST24, ST12, and CGO4. During my second flight test, drone lost the connection with ST24 and flew away... It happened in an open field, when the drone was only 80 m above ground, and approx. 200 m away from the controller... Did you experience anything similar with your H920? Is there anything I could do to improve the connection (e.g. install better antenna)? Thanks!
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Summary (after discussion in the following posts):
1. For best connection between ST24 and H920, keep both antennas 90 degrees to surface of ST24 (in my case, I did not do that).
2. Let both ST24 and H920 get all satellites - turn everything ON, and let drone sit on the ground for 5 min or so (I believe I did this).
3. After first disconnect, I panicked and accidentally turned off GPS, instead of turning ON Return To Home (thus, H920 drifted with wind).
4. The response of H920 was slow, because rate knob was towards turtle. Therefore while in panic (me bursting my lungs while running through the field) it seamed that H920 did not react to ST24.
5. Drone was able to land in between trees without hitting anything (I hold down control on the ST24 while running all the time).
6. No damage neither to drone nor to other's property was done.
7. In test flights after the accident, nothing similar happened. Drone responded as it should. From FlightLog, it was concluded that H920 behaves like any other H920.
"Fly-away" happened due to my fault and inexperience.
Thanks to all, who responded at this post/issue.
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Summary (after discussion in the following posts):
1. For best connection between ST24 and H920, keep both antennas 90 degrees to surface of ST24 (in my case, I did not do that).
2. Let both ST24 and H920 get all satellites - turn everything ON, and let drone sit on the ground for 5 min or so (I believe I did this).
3. After first disconnect, I panicked and accidentally turned off GPS, instead of turning ON Return To Home (thus, H920 drifted with wind).
4. The response of H920 was slow, because rate knob was towards turtle. Therefore while in panic (me bursting my lungs while running through the field) it seamed that H920 did not react to ST24.
5. Drone was able to land in between trees without hitting anything (I hold down control on the ST24 while running all the time).
6. No damage neither to drone nor to other's property was done.
7. In test flights after the accident, nothing similar happened. Drone responded as it should. From FlightLog, it was concluded that H920 behaves like any other H920.
"Fly-away" happened due to my fault and inexperience.
Thanks to all, who responded at this post/issue.
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