If you have read the text of my last video upload, you will know that this plane is missing. It is Jon's (Pudsey-RC) Bixler 2 FPV plane. It was last seen around Thornbury, Bradford/Pudsey Leeds area on Monday 22nd July 5-45pm. If you check out this video of footage from the day before (Sunday) at around 9m30s is the rough area of where its last position was seen before the picture went. If you find this plane or hear of anyone that may know where it is, please contact me or Pudsey-RC on YouTube. Jon is offering a reward for its return!!!

By the way, you may note that from time to time the motor quickens as the pan/tilt camera pans down & to the right. This is the failsafe position when the signal is lost & Return To Home (RTH) is engaged. Just in case anybody is wondering.
As you can see, the plane heads home no problem & gains/looses height depending on what height you set it to return at!!! You just need to set the throttle enough so it returns against a strong wind, should there be one. Also, that the battery has enough left in it to get back. This is why it is prudent to fly against the wind, so as to know when you have used half you're battery, you can turn round & return with the wind on a whiff of throttle, thus preserving you're battery so you don't run out of power!!!
Enjoy & remember, RTH will NOT ALWAYS BRING THE PLANE HOME!!! IF THE RTH FAILS, HAVE A BACK-UP. Write you're mobile number on the plane, record the live video footage. That way you may have (IF RTH WAS ENGAGED) the GPS Coordinates to give you a place to start looking, it always looks different in the air, to where you really are on the ground. If possible, don't FPV alone. That way you have another pair of eyes to see where it may have gone down. Or better still, another FPV aircraft to look for the lost one!!!

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