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So my buddy owns a business that's a few miles from my house. He joked about me doing a fly over so I decided to oblige. I drove to a distance of just over 900 ft. The launching point was behind a shopping center where the tractor trailers make their drop offs. So I had to ascend to 100 ft then start my flight. The shopping center walls were only 20 feet tall or so. The P3A gave me a compass warning before flight but after calibrating it seemed fine. So I reached his building and hovered just passed his shop in a wooded area just beyond his parking lot. Then I got the "not connected warning". I unplugged the the cord, plugged it back in with negative results, flipped cobtroller off and back on with nothing. Fpv showed it in the same spot. Just a froze screen I guess. So I jumped in my car to move around to a better view of his shop and couldn't spot the P3. I hit the RTH button and it started beeping but nothing was updating on the screen. I keep looking and trying to reconnect by closing app and restarting it. Nothing so after 10 -15 minutes I was sure it was gone for good. I decided to go back to the launching point and there it was safe and sound. It landed nearly exactly where it took off from in the alley way maybe 30 feet deep. Winds weren't to bad but we did have some strong gusts. Never again
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