Regarding Return to Home

[bjtap]

If Return to Home is set at a certain height and the XSP is flying higher than the RTH set height... if RTH is initiated will the XSP drop down to the set height and then return or will it remain at the higher flying height and return home?
Thanks

 

[Jagerbomb52]

If Return to Home is set at a certain height and the XSP is flying higher than the RTH set height... if RTH is initiated will the XSP drop down to the set height and then return or will it remain at the higher flying height and return home?
Thanks

No it will only go up if it needs to but it never will go down till it reaces thr homepoint

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[bjtap]

Thank you Agustine... that was the answer I was hoping for. Now to extend the question. If I launch at 0 feet and a mountain is 400 feet tall, am I allowed to (once over the mountain) go above the 400 foot limit while over the mountain. I was under the impression the limit set by the FAA is 400 feet above the topography or building etc..

 

[QuadSquad]

Yes

 

[LuvMyTJ]

Thank you Agustine... that was the answer I was hoping for. Now to extend the question. If I launch at 0 feet and a mountain is 400 feet tall, am I allowed to (once over the mountain) go above the 400 foot limit while over the mountain. I was under the impression the limit set by the FAA is 400 feet above the topography or building etc..

The 400' rule is AGL or above ground level, so you may fly 400' over mountains as long as you are within 400' of said mountains. So you can't be 1000' away and fly over 400' to clear a building lets say, but if you were within 400' of the building you could fly over it at a max of 400' taller than the building. Make sense?

 

[QuadSquad]

Now you opened up a can of worms with this one. Best be good in geometry, and have a topographical map. Say, the mountain is 1000 feet AGL. And it is 5 miles average, across at the base. You are flying 2 miles away from the summit. How high can you fly? Sure, you could treat it as a perfect cone, and figure it from there. But, you make contact with a small private aircraft, and the spot where it happens, the slope was steeper, and you were actually 600' AGL with your drone, and more than 400' from the side of the chasm. Then what?

 

[QuadSquad]

Maybe the next development in drone technology, will be bottom mounted laser rangefinders, with telemetry. I best hush, get to work, and patent that. Think I would do better selling it to Autel, or DJI?

 

[Jagerbomb52]

Now you opened up a can of worms with this one. Best be good in geometry, and have a topographical map. Say, the mountain is 1000 feet AGL. And it is 5 miles average, across at the base. You are flying 2 miles away from the summit. How high can you fly? Sure, you could treat it as a perfect cone, and figure it from there. But, you make contact with a small private aircraft, and the spot where it happens, the slope was steeper, and you were actually 600' AGL with your drone, and more than 400' from the side of the chasm. Then what?

Line of sight comes into play and also giving way to manned aircraft will always come first.

 

[QuadSquad]

Mmmmmm......yeah. But, I can see this situation being LOS, because of treetops masking the TERRAIN, not your drone. And, I can mention a few times when I've been surprised by small aircraft, coming in while hidden by trees. A few times THEY were in violation of altitude rules