I was flying only my third battery on my new TH Pro a few days ago and ended up parking my drone in the top of a cottonwood tree. There are lessons to be learned from the crash, but that is another thread for another day.
The reason for this post is that I had engaged collision avoidance shortly after takeoff and yet my H still flew into the tree (and yes, I was flying forward at the time of the crash). How is this possible?
I am still working with customer service and I do not yet know how this will play out, but they did tell me something that I had not heard before. The RealSense system cannot be active no matter the position of the collision avoidance switch if the landing gear is down. They even told me that RealSense is in fact active during RTH until the system lowers the gear.
Before purchasing my H Pro I read everything I could find, I watched multiple videos about the H and about how the RealSense system worked, and I downloaded and read Yuneec's manual for the H, and I had never seen anything connecting the collision avoidance to the position of the gear.
I would be very interested in learning whether this is common knowledge. If you choose to respond to this thread, please mention whether or not you were aware of this. And if you are flying a TH Pro and are using the RealSense on a particular flight, be very careful to retract your gear before flying anywhere close to obstacles.
The reason for this post is that I had engaged collision avoidance shortly after takeoff and yet my H still flew into the tree (and yes, I was flying forward at the time of the crash). How is this possible?
I am still working with customer service and I do not yet know how this will play out, but they did tell me something that I had not heard before. The RealSense system cannot be active no matter the position of the collision avoidance switch if the landing gear is down. They even told me that RealSense is in fact active during RTH until the system lowers the gear.
Before purchasing my H Pro I read everything I could find, I watched multiple videos about the H and about how the RealSense system worked, and I downloaded and read Yuneec's manual for the H, and I had never seen anything connecting the collision avoidance to the position of the gear.
I would be very interested in learning whether this is common knowledge. If you choose to respond to this thread, please mention whether or not you were aware of this. And if you are flying a TH Pro and are using the RealSense on a particular flight, be very careful to retract your gear before flying anywhere close to obstacles.
