I have a general question about return home future on Eagle tree Vector while sitting on the workbench when switching to return home mode the end engine will not start up is this a safety function. ? If so at what point or how far away will the engine start itself in the return home future

Originally Posted by sunvalleyfarms

I have a general question about return home future on Eagle tree Vector while sitting on the workbench when switching to return home mode the end engine will not start up is this a safety function. ? If so at what point or how far away will the engine start itself in the return home future

Yes the RTH throttle control will not engage if your altitude reading is less than about 60 feet/20 meters, or if your speed is less than 3 MPH or 3K/H, when RTH is triggered. Unless you enable low altitude RTH in the software. Page 71 in the Vector manual.

Hello,

Before relying on failsafe and return to home , you must be absolutely sure your failsafe is working correctly. The biggest cause of return to home not working is not having failsafe set correctly. You must understand how to set failsafe correctly in your radio. Many radios do not allow channels above the main 4 (aileron, elevator, throttle, rudder) to be set to failsafe. In this case you must use he throttle failsafe method. Be sure you test failsafe by connecting the Vector to the software (props OFF!) and turn off your TX. You must see the Vector report "In Failsafe Now YES" on the RC Configuration page when you power off your TX. If not, you do not have your failsafe set correctly. Testing RTH in the air with the mode switch does not indicate that your failsafe is set correctly.

If you are using the throttle position method for failsafe, you will need to trim your throttle all the way down, set failsafe for the throttle channel in your radio, trim your throttle back to normal and then re-run the RC Wizard. If you are using the mode switch method you will need to place the mode/submode switches in the RTH position and set those switch positions for the failsafe for those channels and then re-run the RX Wizard. See section "5.12.1 Configuring Failsafe Detection" in the manual for details.

Regards, John