Thank you!

I'd be in a nut house by now if it wasn't for JB

Here's a video I made about BF 4.4 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j-B1Y7llrKzehKs.html

Tell me you didn't watch the video without telling me...

Thank you, while trying GPS rescue while hovering 1m from the ground, I was surprised to see it zip towards people about 50m away without climbing first so I disarmed without waiting to see if it would climb before meeting them. With your explanation I see that I should have flipped the switch from higher off the ground...

@@manikb8011 if you increase the airspeed to cope with wind you need to increase the climb rate to keep the same angle of climb

Its made this way to force you to learn so you don't accidentaly make your quad dangeorus. However, with BF 4.3, easy presets are available for everything

Turn on expert mode in the configuration options for BF configurator. The failsafe tab will come back.

@@JoshuaBardwell I knew that was it , i was going to check. THANKS AGAIN !😀😀

Sounds like a great idea!

This is possible if you disable the permanent home point setting

It reconnects and you will see RSSI go back and show connection, and then you move the sticks to take control. Once it reconnects, you have to deflect the sticks at least something like 20-25% I don't remember the exact number to take control again.

@@JoshuaBardwell Awesome. Thanks. Will have to see how to show RSSI in the goggles but you probably have a video for that ;-) Used pur DJI/vista so far, just jumped to ELRS.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hdWXoJpj27jHnHU.html

It's possible that your failsafe aux setting prevented the FC from leaving failsafe aux mode. I'm pretty sure the failsafe aux mode needs to be set to "hold" not "set" to work properly. If you go into GPS rescue and can't regain control, most likely it's because you did not deflect the sticks enough. Once link is re-established (or you release the failsafe aux switch) you must deflect the sticks at least, I think it is 25%, before the FC gives control back to you.

@@JoshuaBardwell Great, thanks for confirming the use of "hold" instead of "set" for that aux channel, that does make sense. I was trying everything to regain control as the quad was drifting down. The only thing I didn't try was turning the radio off and on again.

Yes

You should open the bf configurator with it to look over every setting anyways.

@@kaskobi3657 yeah I don’t own a computer. Only ever used iPhone but I’m going to buy a computer so I can look over that stuff and I’d like to change my rate also. I started with the DJI fpv and that was what was good about that as you could do everything on my iPhone or goggles. Thanks.

It should go down, test it, set it to 80m, fly to 100m in a controlled environment and trigger it.

I believe you're right about that but I can't say for sure.

@@JoshuaBardwell interesting, sounds like a reason to me to set allow arming without fix. Or maybe it realizes that it has not reached the homepoint and the homepoint stays until the fc is rebooted. I wonder how I can try that.... btw thanks for answering on an 8 months old video. I have to send you a tip now, since I'm also binge watching all your bf 4.3 videos.

Home point is reset when you re arm, by default.

I have no idea why they would lock throttle at 1500 on failsafe. Maybe they know something I don't. GEPRC aren't likely to have made a silly mistake, but personally I think there must be something else we're missing for that setting to make sense.

@@JoshuaBardwell so. Should I change it to Auto like you said because the way it sounds, it shouldn’t be set to SET 1500.

@@JoshuaBardwell when it comes to Beta flight and drones, I take your word for it. Because everything I learned about FPV. I learned it from your KZfaq channel. So im going to change it to Auto and just see what happens next.

Every time I save with GPS mode selected, it goes back to selecting the "drop" option. So I think you're right.

If the quadcopter instantly flips over when you arm and raise the throttle with props on, it is almost 100% certain to be one of these things: 1. Clockwise prop installed on counter-clockwise spinning motor or vice versa. 2. Flight controller not facing forward. Go to the Setup tab in the configurator. Tilt the quadcopter on all axes (pitch, roll, yaw) with your hands. The 3D model in the configurator should move the same as you move it with your hand. If it does not, use the Board Alignment parameter in the Configuration tab to fix it. 3. Motors not wired correctly. TAKE OFF YOUR PROPS. Plug in a battery. Go to the Motors tab. Turn on the "props are off" slider in the lower-right. Raise the individual sliders (1, 2, 3, and 4) one at a time, just enough that the motor begins spinning. The motor positions (1, 2, 3, and 4) should match the graphic in the upper left. If they do not, then either move the signal wires so that they are correct or use resource reassignment to virtually "move" the motors. 4. Motor spinning wrong direction. Do the same as step 3 but compare the motor direction to the arrows on the graphic in the upper left. If a motor is spinning the wrong direction, either reverse it using BLHeli (or whatever ESC software you are using) or swap any two motor wires with each other, which will reverse the direction. Many times, people swear up and down they have checked all of these things, and then come back to say oops I missed one you were right. So if you think you have checked all of these things and your quad still FLIPS OUT, go back and check again. If your quad is insta-flipping on takeoff, it is almost always one of these things.

@@JoshuaBardwell okay thank you very much and I will check everything again

You were right the motor position were wrong and after changing it flies well

The default for crossfire is definitely cut not pos, and that's definitely what you want unless you're flying a servo plane with no flight controller. Test by using failsafe aux mode. Don't power off your controller.

It's in part 1 of this series. Playlist link is in the video description.

@@JoshuaBardwell I found it. I appreciate it

Depends on what betaflight version you have, in earlier versions, that setting can only be acceesed through CLI

@@kaskobi3657 I found out that I hadn’t updated the FC firmware, I thought I had. This gave me the extra options.

Betaflight has this capability but it disables it shortly after arming. If you tap an obstacle you don't want the quad to just drop out if the sky. You want to be able to keep flying.

@@JoshuaBardwell In that case yes, but I was talking about the failsafe landing procedure. As it's automated, Betaflight could guess that the quad has touched something and it has to disarm to avoid to cause collateral damage.

Oh I see. Yeah it does have sanity checks that monitor the gyro and PID error and such. But it's not very reliable.