Records home position but crashes to the ground :(

[Benjamin Kenobi]

Oh yeah, I just checked the manual. How lame is that?! It remembers the default switch positions the first time you bind but when you lose signal it just keeps the settings as they were before signal lose, except throttle.

I used this receiver on a heli so probably never saw any live failsafes. And you never turn off a tx with a heli! Ha!

Oh well, sorry for leading you down the wrong path. You can still activate failsafe from a switch just don't fly too far away (more than 1km) to be safe. Without video transmission you won't be anyway.

You can still have fun with it! I didn't need failsafe for about 6 months until I started pushing the boundaries a bit.

 

[thurcombe]

Oh yeah, I just checked the manual. How lame is that?! It remembers the default switch positions the first time you bind but when you lose signal it just keeps the settings as they were before signal lose, except throttle.

I used this receiver on a heli so probably never saw any live failsafes. And you never turn off a tx with a heli! Ha!

Oh well, sorry for leading you down the wrong path. You can still activate failsafe from a switch just don't fly too far away (more than 1km) to be safe. Without video transmission you won't be anyway.

You can still have fun with it! I didn't need failsafe for about 6 months until I started pushing the boundaries a bit. 

Yeah there's no way I'm putting it in the air now without failsafe on Tx lost, it's not worth the risk. I'll find a used Rx somewhere to sort me out.

 

[bensid54]

Also, somewhere in the Naza manual it says you need to set the Failsafe of your transmitter to provide >10% throttle.
I'm totally guessing, but do you have "immediate" shutdown selected instead of "intelligent" shutdown in your assistant software? That, along with your receiver not setup for a >10% throttle on disconnect, might account for it just falling out of the sky.

I think I missed that part in your settings do you mean minus 10%?

 

[ProPilotWannaBe]

I think I missed that part in your settings do you mean minus 10%?

What DJI meant by 10% was 10% of total throttle travel, i.e. 10% of throttle. On my Futaba, since total travel is -100 to +100, that would mean >20 on that scale. My Futaba setting ends up at -50, which is 25% throttle.

 

[thurcombe]

AR7000 inside and done in 30 seconds.

If anyone else is struggling with this, you need at least a 7000 to have prefest failsafe available to you. It isn't covered in the manual but as already stated here, power up the rx, remove the bind plug then check the tx sticks/switches are where you want them before binding the tx.

As an added bonus I've got GPS/Atti/Falsafe flight modes configured fine now too, so much happier

 

[ProPilotWannaBe]

AR7000 inside and done in 30 seconds.

If anyone else is struggling with this, you need at least a 7000 to have prefest failsafe available to you. It isn't covered in the manual but as already stated here, power up the rx, remove the bind plug then check the tx sticks/switches are where you want them before binding the tx.

As an added bonus I've got GPS/Atti/Falsafe flight modes configured fine now too, so much happier

Glad you got to the bottom of it! Happy flying!

 

[FlyGirl]

AR7000 inside and done in 30 seconds.

If anyone else is struggling with this, you need at least a 7000 to have prefest failsafe available to you. It isn't covered in the manual but as already stated here, power up the rx, remove the bind plug then check the tx sticks/switches are where you want them before binding the tx.

As an added bonus I've got GPS/Atti/Falsafe flight modes configured fine now too, so much happier

YAY Thurcombe!!

 

[Benjamin Kenobi]

Woohoo! Nice one! Now the fun begins.

Again, so so sorry for being so condescending! I really didn't mean too. Have fun dude!

 

[thurcombe]

Woohoo! Nice one! Now the fun begins.

Again, so so sorry for being so condescending! I really didn't mean too. Have fun dude! 

No worries, I think we both learned a little something from this.

Alls well that ends well as they say, now on to flying!