I was piloting my drone at about 150 ft altitude about a quarter mile away. Everything was operating as normal into about a 2 minute flight, when all of a sudden it said, high winds, signal lost then my phone rebooted. The drone never came home and my phone wouldn't reconnect with it. I have no idea where my drone is. Can anyone help?
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Thanks for the quick response, msinger.
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Jesus, any clue as to which direction it headed?
7 seconds into he flight it recorded this
0m 7.6s P-GPS 8satellites 0.3ft 1.0ft 1.1mph 8.1ft 99% 16.97V 4.247V 4.237V 4.249V 4.237V 0.012V Home Point recorded. Return-to-Home Altitude:98FT
7 seconds into he flight it recorded this
0m 7.6s P-GPS 8satellites 0.3ft 1.0ft 1.1mph 8.1ft 99% 16.97V 4.247V 4.237V 4.249V 4.237V 0.012V Home Point recorded. Return-to-Home Altitude:98FT
It's possible that the disconnect was due to poor signal - there was some data loss prior to that happening - but if so then it should simply have returned home since the home point was set and home was actually downwind of the last reported location. Another possibility is that there was sudden power loss. The disconnect occurred 0.5 s after you went from full forward elevator to centered sticks, which led to a rapid deceleration and change of pitch from -20° (forwards) to 15° (backwards). That kind of maneuver has a history of dislodging an improperly latched battery. Did you do a really thorough search of the vicinity of the last reported location?
There is a bit of snow on the ground in the vicinity.(doesn't help with finding a white drone). I was actually scouting a sledding location before dragging the kids out of the house. Do you think it would have dropped like a rock, or tried to land based on the data?
It would not have landed at that location - it would have returned home to land. If it were a case of power failure then it would have done a rock impersonation.
It didn't come home, so it must have turned into a flying rock. I started to loose signal as i was approaching that row of pines to the south. I was at least 30' above them. I would have instinctively yanked the stick back at signal loss, maybe dislodging the battery. Maybe it fell out of the sky at that moment into the pines, and a kid picked it up? I have my FAA number inside the battery compartment, but not my number or address. I assume this might have been a very expensive lesson.
Had it continued on its path it was also around 150 ft from possibly hitting the top of a large tree - at the last recorded point it was only around 70 ft AGL and traveling at 20 mph - but you had centered the sticks and I would have expected it to have stopped short of the tree.
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Sorry for your loss. I’m aware of people using the “Marco Polo” to locate their lost drones. (Which doesn’t help you now) Most of them said they nearly stepped on their drone but didn’t see it in the woods, tall grass, snow, etc. while following the Marco Polo signal. If not for that, they would never have found them.
So, it might still be there, hung up in a tree, etc. Apparently they’re damned hard to spot.
So, it might still be there, hung up in a tree, etc. Apparently they’re damned hard to spot.
Man I feel your pain from here,did you try the find my drone on device,should give last know heading.best of luck
Its last recorded location is in the log. Find My Drone is not going to do any better than that.
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Same data as the log. I'll bet a a kid picked it up. In which case it's gone.
Thank you all so much. This group has been incredibly helpful from research before buying 2+ years ago to battery issues a year ago. To this. Thank you all. I will update if I ever find it.
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Was just thinking if for some reason the log stopped recording to device but the drone proceed foward still would it show or does it just sound good in my head,have not tested this,,
You know, I was thinking that too. When the phone rebooted, I attempted to raise it up and steer it back home. I never heard it or saw it.
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It's possible that the uplink remained good, in which case further stick inputs could have been acted on but the log would not have recorded them. However, the sudden loss of downlink coinciding with sudden braking makes a battery issue more likely in my opinion.
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