Hey all,
First post and I am going to guess, like many, it is because of a dumb "user error".
I have managed to lose a buddy's P4 in the back of beyond. I have had my own P3 Pro for some time so am not a complete novice but I recently bought some goggles with a view to upgrading and was testing them with the P4 after helping my friend shoot some footage.
So here's the set of circs. First dumb error: I had put the thing in the air without connecting my phone - so just using goggles.
Second dumb error: No SD card in goggles.
I had flown the thing across a reservoir and suddenly, with nothing in view to obstruct it the thing up ends itself. The last image I have is as if it was on its side. I believe it was on dry land as I could see grass in the frame. But i have no way I know to locate the thing as my goggles cancelled out all the data and no recording on phone, obviously.
Now, this was in Rural MT and the terrain was not accessible by vehicle but we did take ATV out to the approx location with out luck.
The weird part is "find my drone" in the app shows it as being in the location it last returned too, before taking off on it this last doomed journey.
I am guessing this is just because without the phone it has no way to track the crash flight? The location is 30 miles away from the where I lost it, so I am assuming there is now way it returned there? I guess I am just bemused because there seemed no reason for the thing to crash. I was looking directly at the flight path in HD and it was clear, so I am just wondering if by some miracle it lost connection and managed to find its last home point, before this duffus sent it up without any recourse!
Any help appreciated.
First post and I am going to guess, like many, it is because of a dumb "user error".
I have managed to lose a buddy's P4 in the back of beyond. I have had my own P3 Pro for some time so am not a complete novice but I recently bought some goggles with a view to upgrading and was testing them with the P4 after helping my friend shoot some footage.
So here's the set of circs. First dumb error: I had put the thing in the air without connecting my phone - so just using goggles.
Second dumb error: No SD card in goggles.
I had flown the thing across a reservoir and suddenly, with nothing in view to obstruct it the thing up ends itself. The last image I have is as if it was on its side. I believe it was on dry land as I could see grass in the frame. But i have no way I know to locate the thing as my goggles cancelled out all the data and no recording on phone, obviously.
Now, this was in Rural MT and the terrain was not accessible by vehicle but we did take ATV out to the approx location with out luck.
The weird part is "find my drone" in the app shows it as being in the location it last returned too, before taking off on it this last doomed journey.
I am guessing this is just because without the phone it has no way to track the crash flight? The location is 30 miles away from the where I lost it, so I am assuming there is now way it returned there? I guess I am just bemused because there seemed no reason for the thing to crash. I was looking directly at the flight path in HD and it was clear, so I am just wondering if by some miracle it lost connection and managed to find its last home point, before this duffus sent it up without any recourse!
Any help appreciated.
