Thanks for the clarification on adjusting RTH altitude
@CC Rider. I should have also mentioned that if you are already higher than the RTH altitude setting, the H will stay at that altitude and won't descend until it is overhead.
The max FAA altitude is 400' AGL (above ground level). The terrain I fly in would severely limit my ability to fly or would result in a crash into trees or hills if I was restricted to 400'. I usually need to set it at 1200' but I still stay well below 400' AGL. It's actually pointless to fly higher than 400' over any terrain because the video is pretty much useless with a wide angle lens.
Gotcha. Your kind of terrain - with hills and valleys and ever-changing elevations and topography - definitely impacts upon just how high you
have to fly just to be up there and avoid obstacles and crashes. And of course you still stay within the 400' AGL limit while flying, too. How I wish I had your elevation problems to consider.
Here in Delaware, a very flat coastal plain environment, we have no real elevations to speak of. We go from being at sea level on our Atlantic Ocean coastline to our highest elevation point located about 2 hours north from where I live in southern Delaware, where the beach areas are. And its a
slooow climb to that high point, a nearly imperceptible one unless you're at just the right vantage point to notice it. That highest elevation is a point of land just 447.85' above sea level. Counting Washington, D.C., Delaware has the third lowest high point in the nation.
Even though I am a born and bred flatlander living near the coast just a few feet above sea level - as our routine local coastal flooding of low-lying areas and roadways will attest to during hurricane season as well as the occasional extreme high tides we get when the moon is just right or the wind is whipping off of the ocean - at heart I am a mountain-loving man who loves to see rolling hills, too. I spent quite a few years living in the Southwest years ago and instantly fell in love with the mountains throughout that region. The western mountains are quite different than those here in the East. Being comparatively younger, the western mountains have not been as eroded by time and the elements as East Coast mountain ranges have been, and therefore are higher and more "aggressive" in their appearance.
Not intending to be politically incorrect in ANY way whatsoever, I've heard East Coast mountains referred to by geologists as "feminine mountains" as they are much more rounded and covered over by vegetation, and not as high as their western counterparts, the results of the centuries of wear and tear the region endured during the last Ice Age followed by the sudden boom of vegetation that flourished there afterwards. (As an aside, believe it or not, the vast majority of the world's vegetation can be traced back to that location since the Ice Age killed off vegetation in most areas of the globe and new life really took hold there and eventually spread everywhere.) I've heard western mountain ranges referred to as "masculine mountains," being more craggy, more angular, and less affected by erosion and the geological processes that, in time, will one day alter their appearance, too. Either way, I envy those drone pilots who have such terrain waiting for them right outside their backdoor.
I'm planning a cross-country trip with my children this summer to see the Southwest and give them a tour of special areas I remember and would like them to see. My Typhoon, its car and ac chargers, extra props, takeoff mat and all of my 6 batteries are coming with me, without a doubt. I'm going to have a chance to really see what the H can do out there. What a pleasure it will be to see it fly further than just the next set of nearby trees a few hundred yards away I have to contend with, in an area where my VLOS will be greatly enhanced and extended, and in the wide open spaces it was designed to fly in and capture. I can't wait.