altitude drop when RTL

[leopold1]

Today I did some very nice flights with my hex.
Altitude hold works fine. Keeps a steady height. Pos hold is very firm and I tried pulling the quad a couple of time from its position and it returned without flaws and overshoots.

One thing I did notice is when I engage RTL, the hex flies in the correct direction to its home position also without overshoot, but drops in height. If I engage RTL from 50m away at a height of 3m I have to give some manual thrust to stop it hitting the ground when its allmost at its homeposition. Sometimes I let it flyclose to the ground without manual correction, but its doesn't regain the altitude of the start position.

Is there a pid setting I can tune for this?

[Kisssys]

If you set your home position at 3 meters altitude then you probably need to redo the calibration.

If you did not it's just going back to the position, heading and altitude that is stored when it initially got a good 3D fix.

[leopold1]

Steve,

I wasn't aware that also altitude was stored in the home position.

Nice to know

[kinderkram]

... added a warning to the Wiki.