Hi All,
I think its just about all my fault but I lost my P4 today.
I was taking some vid and pics of a local mountain rock face when I lost signal and although it tried to return home (I got the message; do you want to return home and clicked ok) but it never came back.
The mountain is about 300m high but I took off from a field below because it was too windy up top and too many trees when I tried after climbing it yesterday.
Anyway my return to home was set at 30m but as the trees closest to the field were around 20m I did reset that after launch to 50m just to be safe.
I am thinking now that as the drone was at around 290m high when it lost signal, that when the return to home activated it went straight down and tried to get to 50m and crashed into the trees or hillside...?
I never even thought about that as usually I just fly at normal ground level not up close to a high rock face. And yes I do feel stupid....
The hillside is a mass of trees, steep gulley's, fallen down trees, long grass, rocks etc etc.
I still had the map on my ipad of where the drome was last at and so I set off to see if I could get near it.
Due to the terrain and the fact that it was going to be dark soon (and the ipad lost battery) I only got to within 300m of where the red arrow said it last was.
I am wondering that when I try looking again tomorrow, will the last location still be on my ipad map if I connect the transmitter?
I am hoping that if it did just go straight down then there is a small chance of finding it if I can get near the arrow...?
I did try when I got back home and recharged the ipad and it seemed to show the red arrow was still there...
I think its a long shot that I will find it anyway in that terrain but I have to try.
Thanks guys in advance.
I think its just about all my fault but I lost my P4 today.
I was taking some vid and pics of a local mountain rock face when I lost signal and although it tried to return home (I got the message; do you want to return home and clicked ok) but it never came back.
The mountain is about 300m high but I took off from a field below because it was too windy up top and too many trees when I tried after climbing it yesterday.
Anyway my return to home was set at 30m but as the trees closest to the field were around 20m I did reset that after launch to 50m just to be safe.
I am thinking now that as the drone was at around 290m high when it lost signal, that when the return to home activated it went straight down and tried to get to 50m and crashed into the trees or hillside...?
I never even thought about that as usually I just fly at normal ground level not up close to a high rock face. And yes I do feel stupid....
The hillside is a mass of trees, steep gulley's, fallen down trees, long grass, rocks etc etc.
I still had the map on my ipad of where the drome was last at and so I set off to see if I could get near it.
Due to the terrain and the fact that it was going to be dark soon (and the ipad lost battery) I only got to within 300m of where the red arrow said it last was.
I am wondering that when I try looking again tomorrow, will the last location still be on my ipad map if I connect the transmitter?
I am hoping that if it did just go straight down then there is a small chance of finding it if I can get near the arrow...?
I did try when I got back home and recharged the ipad and it seemed to show the red arrow was still there...
I think its a long shot that I will find it anyway in that terrain but I have to try.
Thanks guys in advance.