# Short Hop After Auto Landing

**URL:** <https://discuss.px4.io/t/short-hop-after-auto-landing/5672>\
**Category:** Flight Testing & Log Analysis\
**Created:** [February 9, 2018, 12:13am UTC](https://discuss.px4.io/t/short-hop-after-auto-landing/5672 "2018-02-09T00:13:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![keenanjohnson](https://discuss.px4.io/user_avatar/discuss.px4.io/keenanjohnson/32/3509_2.png) [@keenanjohnson](https://discuss.px4.io/u/keenanjohnson)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 12:13am UTC](https://discuss.px4.io/t/short-hop-after-auto-landing/5672/1 "2018-02-09T00:13:46Z")

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Hey there everyone!

I’m flight testing a quadcopter using a pixhawk2.1 cube running Px4.

We started using the auto land feature this week and for some reason, the vehicle always does something strange at the end.

It will appear to almost land (just barely making ground contact), then throttle up the motors again and translate slightly to one direction before finally landing.

I was wondering if anyone had any tips for diagnosing that or could help me root cause it?

Flight log of an example: [https://logs.px4.io/plot\_app?log=b48e48f9-56c4-45cc-8205-6c3b6cf7c1ec](https://logs.px4.io/plot_app?log=b48e48f9-56c4-45cc-8205-6c3b6cf7c1ec)

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Nicolas](https://discuss.px4.io/user_avatar/discuss.px4.io/nicolas/32/4467_2.png) [@Nicolas](https://discuss.px4.io/u/Nicolas)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.px4.io/t/short-hop-after-auto-landing/5672/2 "2018-02-09T09:24:20Z")

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This could be the land detector. When you land it falls out of land detected state and then detects it again.

 ![](https://discuss.px4.io/uploads/default/original/2X/e/eb748817c7033749d3e47a6f857bfa2a08eade73.png)

Make sure you follow the tuning guide here: [Redirecting... Page moved](https://dev.px4.io/en/tutorials/land_detector.html)  
Namely your hover thrust setting is at the default 0.5, while the log shows that your actual hover thrust is 0.6 - 0.65.

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**Author:** ![keenanjohnson](https://discuss.px4.io/user_avatar/discuss.px4.io/keenanjohnson/32/3509_2.png) [@keenanjohnson](https://discuss.px4.io/u/keenanjohnson)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.px4.io/t/short-hop-after-auto-landing/5672/3 "2018-02-14T15:53:17Z")

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Thanks for the response Nicolas!

Curiously, adjusting the hover throttle up seemed to make the hop higher. Adjusting it down seemed to make the hop go away, so we’re still digging into why.

I’ll report back here once we’ve root caused it, but if anyone else has any ideas I’d appreciate the help.

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**Author:** ![dlwalter](https://discuss.px4.io/user_avatar/discuss.px4.io/dlwalter/32/3011_2.png) [@dlwalter](https://discuss.px4.io/u/dlwalter)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://discuss.px4.io/t/short-hop-after-auto-landing/5672/4 "2019-02-27T23:44:54Z")

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We have been seeing a similar issue of a hop during landing in altitude and position control modes. The aircraft will touch down then throttle up and maintain a centimeter high hover even with full stick down. We’ve flipped a couple aircraft when a leg touches and breeze hits during this several second ordeal.

We’ve partially solved the issue by changing EKF2\_HGT\_MODE to GPS (1) from Baro (0). Our conclusion is that the prop wash is causing an estimated altitude drop and the mc\_pos\_control is fighting that and taking it into a hover.

We’re are looking at improving our enclosure around the Cube to prevent external wind and prop wash from affecting the internal baro measurement.‘’

Here is an example plot. The landing occurs around 13 seconds and from there until the actual landing detected the operator had the throttle stick fully down.

 ![](https://discuss.px4.io/uploads/default/original/2X/a/a6d571a6e2c060bb9f501ded4ac69202b859f1df.png)