My guess is that your P4 is on the roof of the small building next to the skyscraper on the left
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That is totally what Im thinking neven! I am going to find the name of each building in that area and see if they would possibly check the roof for me. I have already turned it into Louisville Police. They were very nice btw. My guess is that it totally hovered there until battery hit 10% and then landed on top of one of those there close for sure. Thanks so much btw.My guess is that your P4 is on the roof of the small building next to the skyscraper on the left
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That is totally what Im thinking neven! I am going to find the name of each building in that area and see if they would possibly check the roof for me. I have already turned it into Louisville Police. They were very nice btw. My guess is that it totally hovered there until battery hit 10% and then landed on top of one of those there close for sure. Thanks so much btw.
I hope that quick disconnection didn't mean battery failure
I bought a trackimo gps attachment for this, so you may want to look into that option in the future. Also leave notes around the last known location. Better to try and fail than not have tried at all. Future speaking be aware of metal and magnetic fields, ships with antennas, anything that has that or emits a signal close enough to the 2.4 GHZ will jam your drones antenna. Some corporate businesses are already looking into this technology. The building itself probably is to blame here but anyways, hope this helps.
But I have seen where OA works in RTH mode though. Is that not right?If the building was between you and the bird, the sudden "disconnected" is expected behavior. 3 secs later, RTH would have kicked in and it would have flown directly back toward you (into the building since RTH alt. was lower than the top of the building).
Maybe you can find someone with a phantom in your area to do flyovers over the suspected buildings?
That would be so cool if maintenance from one of htose buildings calls me with some good news in a day or so! Thanks for your comment and diagram of where it might be too. Thats cool! Because of this loss I have def learned a little bit about buildings and being that far away trying to do shoot them too. But I also learned that I will never set a max altitude on my bird to 400 ft ever again! Period! As I was driving forward I was trying to raise altitude several times but I already at my max. But the screen was looking so dang cool with sunset I like an idiot kept driving! I also learned that I should have had RTH alt set to 550 ft or so too in this one case. Those two tall ones were about 500 ft I would say. And the last thing I learned is fly the buildings over near by them or program a Litchi mission so it will go ahead and finish even with disconnects.I actually suspect that it is on the top of one of the ledges of the building to your left. These are the most logical place it could have landed
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I really don't. I live an hour and a half Northwest of Louisville. So I really know any drone guys down that way. Great idea though. That would be the way to spot it for sure if it's on a ledge or a roof.Maybe you can find someone with a phantom in your area to do flyovers over the suspected buildings?
Hopefully somebody will be able to track you down through your FAA number you placed on your drone. I'm not sure if that's possible--I have not heard of anyone trying it yet.
See what's coming out next March. LOL.
DJI will be announcing the new Inspire2 next week. I'm looking forward to that.
Some friendly advice:
1. Try to avoid flying over populated areas like downtown, traffic or homes, it's high risk if something goes wrong. Do you have liability insurance if it hurts someone?
2. Don't fly between objects (such as buildings) when you are not within VLOS, never (unless flying a Litchi mission autonomously). Since you can't see behind you while flying, it's easy to make the mistake of flying behind an object when you don't have VLOS. This can lead to radio connection trouble by accidentally flying behind any object (mountain, building, etc).
3. Don't buy the Inspire until you have better flying record, unless money is no object. With all due respect sir, you would be classified a novice by most pilots, doing what you did, being distracted from rational flight by the emotion of the moment. These things happen, no disrespect intended. There's a learning curve that costs money sometimes.
Thanks for your friendly advice John. And I appreciate it with no disrespect intended too. But come on, at some point you have to be a little bold to get some great stuff! Everyone flies right over towns and cities eventually if they are wanting to get good stuff. Trees and farms get boring after a while. LOL. Totally agree that this was absolutely my fault for sure though. Def a lesson learned. I am just a hobbyist as of now btw. And money is an object for sure. I am a very serious photog that is always gonna push things to get a freaking rocking shot! So I was ready to get into the Inspire with bigger sensor anyway. Novice! I don't think that's very accuarate. Flying record?? Not sure about flying records, but I have never had a crash ever with over 250 flights on the P4. And a ton of flights with a Blade Chroma as well. But seriously thanks for the help again and can't wait to see what the new Inspire brings to the game.DJI will be announcing the new Inspire2 next week. I'm looking forward to that.
Some friendly advice:
1. Try to avoid flying over populated areas like downtown, traffic or homes, it's high risk if something goes wrong. Do you have liability insurance if it hurts someone?
2. Don't fly between objects (such as buildings) when you are not within VLOS, never (unless flying a Litchi mission autonomously). Since you can't see behind you while flying, it's easy to make the mistake of flying behind an object when you don't have VLOS. This can lead to radio connection trouble by accidentally flying behind any object (mountain, building, etc).
3. Don't buy the Inspire until you have better flying record, unless money is no object. With all due respect sir, you would be classified a novice by most pilots, doing what you did, being distracted from rational flight by the emotion of the moment. These things happen, no disrespect intended. There's a learning curve that costs money sometimes.