I use 'PocketFinder' which does not require a SIM card as it has connectivity built in. Many have good results with the TK-102 or similar models, but they DO require a SIM card, usually from a pay as you go cell connection.
Bye bye drone
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There is a youtube video of someone lifting a 1.2kg bucket of rocks. It can't weigh much more than that.
Hi guys
Quick update after spending all day searching my p3a I gave up....
We ( me and my father)
Have the exact radios for searching
Can't find it
You probably know how sad this situation
But ....
Anyway that it
Here is the link for the last flight
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Thank all
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Quick update after spending all day searching my p3a I gave up....
We ( me and my father)
Have the exact radios for searching
Can't find it
You probably know how sad this situation
But ....
Anyway that it
Here is the link for the last flight
HealthyDrones.com - Innovative flight data analysis that matters
Thank all
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Good luck on your hunt today. We are all anxious for you to find it and hear your "find" stories, hopefully with video and photos. Share your adventure~! The P3A SD card video should be interesting when you find it~! Hope you can check your controller tablet for the video, probably on it's SD card. What tablet are you using?
The wind speed is wildly out (I hope!)
Usually that seems to calculate quite accurately.
Not sure if it's relevant to the incident, everything else looks pretty normal though 20 minutes flying time is pushing things a bit - but not extreme if close at hand.
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Wow, even with rain, etc. You were able to get it working again? That's good to know.
TK-102 I use. It's excellent, just dial it's number from my IPhone and in seconds the coordinates are sent back to me plus the Google map location shown. Paid 29.-$ AUD and have prepaid SIM AUD 4.- per month! Do highly recommend it
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Sorry about your loss, I lost mine a week ago. Its also on the tree, I couldn't see it, I got close to last location and RC was connected, I could even see the live feed from camera, app was showing 9m to it so close. It crashed on RTH after RC connection lost.
Next day my friend and I spend 4 hours searching, no luck.
DJI please add audible noise, panic alarm or something. We need a way to make some noise. I had 55% battery remaining when it crashed into the tree.
Also that morning I did install new firmware if its matter.
Got new one this week, wether looks right and we will continue rescue mission.
Good luck.
To All.
I leave near Seattle, WA. If some on need drone to help search, let me know.
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I have a Nvidia Shield tablet and with this I can record what's on screen. I hope that can tell me where P3P is if I lost it......
Hope you find it.
Hope you find it.
Tnx guys
I found someone from my town
That have P3A will come with me tomorrow morning helping with his P3
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I found someone from my town
That have P3A will come with me tomorrow morning helping with his P3
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That is a tough break to be so close yet not find it. Wonder if someone found it before you went back there? Tough way to learn a lesson as to setting RTH altitude higher than surrounding obstructions.
How did you lose RC communication with the bird? Was it out of sight when flying (I mean as behind some trees or something else)?
Best of luck in your search!
Similar thing happened to my Vision+ & it had a Flytrex attached. Went right to the location of the aircraft with no problem. 1-2 meters away only she was showing as 100'+ high. I literally knew the exact tree she was in, but only after scanning the branches for a couple of hours with binoculars was I able to spot the Phantom. She had settled gracefully into the tree & laid over sideways nestling into a V between two branches.
A suggestion. Spotting a white Phantom against a bright sky is difficult. If you have a good fix on where she came down, return to the spot after dark with a friend & bring along a couple of bright flashlights. You want bright lights...500 lumens or more with tight beams. Scan the canopy with the lights & the white Phantom against the black sky will make spotting her easier. Mine went down at night & I did catch a glimpse of a white speck (you could only see one arm) but I had no binoculars to confirm and then it began raining.
My Vision+ is still flying. Alas, there is one less tree in the world....
A suggestion. Spotting a white Phantom against a bright sky is difficult. If you have a good fix on where she came down, return to the spot after dark with a friend & bring along a couple of bright flashlights. You want bright lights...500 lumens or more with tight beams. Scan the canopy with the lights & the white Phantom against the black sky will make spotting her easier. Mine went down at night & I did catch a glimpse of a white speck (you could only see one arm) but I had no binoculars to confirm and then it began raining.
My Vision+ is still flying. Alas, there is one less tree in the world....
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Good luck.
I too found my first Phantom in a tree: it took off crazy after an update, no idea why.
Anyway, I spent hours looking for it. I gave up and was walking back to my car in dejection (not only had I lost my Phantom, I too had lost all the pictures for the photoshoot that was paying me several hundred dollars).
Luckily, I literally tripped over something while I was still looking up: It was the freaking battery!
I looked directly up and it was the Phantom barely hanging on a branch, it was REALLY hard to see and I never would have noticed it had the battery not popped out and landed directly below.
Sent in to DJI and they fixed gimbal and whatever else was wrong for free.
I'm going to look into one of these Trackimo or other GPS devices, I guess not a bad idea.
But they don't drastically decrease flying time or precision of flying?
I too found my first Phantom in a tree: it took off crazy after an update, no idea why.
Anyway, I spent hours looking for it. I gave up and was walking back to my car in dejection (not only had I lost my Phantom, I too had lost all the pictures for the photoshoot that was paying me several hundred dollars).
Luckily, I literally tripped over something while I was still looking up: It was the freaking battery!
I looked directly up and it was the Phantom barely hanging on a branch, it was REALLY hard to see and I never would have noticed it had the battery not popped out and landed directly below.
Sent in to DJI and they fixed gimbal and whatever else was wrong for free.
I'm going to look into one of these Trackimo or other GPS devices, I guess not a bad idea.
But they don't drastically decrease flying time or precision of flying?
I think after reading how hard it is to find them, especially when you are almost on top of them, I might either get some bright orange skins or paint it fluorescent (blaze) orange. It will also be easier to see in the sky
RodPad
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Keep looking,,
Follow this one..
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RodPad
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I thought the same, but you need another system, if it is built in the battery can still fail or pop out on a crash.
For what it is worth don't give up. My coworker lost his P2V in July high in a thick tree. He waited till November for the leaves to fall before he was able to find it again. The only damage he had was that he needs to replace the body because one of the motor mounts melted causing the motor to tilt from excess heat from trying to cut itself out of the tree and the motor must not have been turning and over heated. The inside had no rust or corrosion at all. The gimble is questionable too but there is a better aftermarket one anyway.
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