So this happened maybe three hours ago and im still a bit shaken honestly. Was out doing some shots over a local reservoir, nothing crazy, maybe 400 meters out and probably 80 meters up. Flying my Air 3 which ive had for about six months with zero issues. All of a sudden the feed just cuts, RC 2 goes grey, and im standing there with my heart in my throat.

RTH kicked in automatically which i was very glad i had configured properly beforehand, it came back fine and landed about 2 meters from where i took off. Checked the logs afterwards and it looks like there was some kind of signal interference spike but i honestly have no idea what caused it. There were no power lines i could see, no obvious RF sources. Has anyone had this happen? im wondering if its worth digging into the signal settings or if this is just one of those things that happens sometimes.

glad it came back safe, that feeling is awful. happened to me once over water and i aged about five years in thirty seconds. definitely pull the logs and look at the signal strength graph over time, sometimes you can pinpoint the exact moment and correlate it to where the drone was geographically. could be something as dumb as someone nearby running a 2.4ghz device or even certain wifi routers in a neighborhood if you were flying near one.

one thing worth checking is whether you have it set to prefer 5.8ghz or 2.4ghz ? if its on auto it might have been hopping bands and hit a rough patch. some people lock it to one or the other depending on their environment and have fewer issues that way.

RTH saving the day is exactly why you should always set your home point and return altitude before you do anything else on a flight. I know it sounds obvious but i see so many people skip that stuff. Glad you had it sorted. Interference near water can be weird too, ive read that large flat water surfaces can do strange things to signal reflections but i dont fully understand the physics of it.