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My son was flying his P4 on Christmas Day (not a Christmas gift, he's had it about 6 months) and it disconnected mid-flight. It was about 1700 ft away and 150 ft. in the air, and not within line-of-sight, so he waited while trying to reconnect and/or RTH automatically. When it didn't show up, we went looking for it at the last known location.
We weren't ever able to reconnect with it or find it that day, but today I went back to look in the vicinity of LKL and found it. The battery was missing, so I thought it might have come out in-flight since we were very close to it on the day he lost it. The other possibility is it had a hard landing and that jarred the battery out. Although I didn't see it laying close by, it was near a ditch with high weeds and I wasn't going to dig around and find a snake instead!
Just wondered if anyone here has knowledge of a battery coming out mid-flight... seems unlikely, and I've not found any other posts that mention it... but figured I'd ask.
We weren't ever able to reconnect with it or find it that day, but today I went back to look in the vicinity of LKL and found it. The battery was missing, so I thought it might have come out in-flight since we were very close to it on the day he lost it. The other possibility is it had a hard landing and that jarred the battery out. Although I didn't see it laying close by, it was near a ditch with high weeds and I wasn't going to dig around and find a snake instead!
Just wondered if anyone here has knowledge of a battery coming out mid-flight... seems unlikely, and I've not found any other posts that mention it... but figured I'd ask.