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- Jan 15, 2017
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Today I was flying in the mountains.
I set my return home to 800 feet (100+ feet above the highest peak I would be flying over)
I went up over the peak and all was good and then I lost video and RC connection.
Then it happened...I did what you should NEVER do.
Panicked, I friggin PANICKED, OMG I PANICKED!!!!!!!!!!
The second thing NOT to do is hit PAUSE, multiple times! The bird stopped in its tracks. I had NO connection and could not get it back, so the bird was just sitting there, burning battery. I waited in hopes to hear it coming home...nothing. There was plenty of juice to get it home. I got in my car and started driving towards it (heavily wooded and very steep roads). By the time could drive to where I thought it was, I COULD HEAR IT and the battery was now at 2% and landing. I could now see it on my map view and I was CLOSE, I kept trying every control to get it back...WRONG MOVE!
It came down through the trees and landed blades down. Thank goodness it was out of juice and the blades did not burn up any motors.
Point of the story...DON'T PANIC!!!
These things are smarter than this dummy controlling it. LET IT DO IT'S THING!!!
IF I would have NOT panicked and NOT touched the controls, it would have safely come home. Or at least back to where I had control as my RTH was well above any trouble.
Also, from the overhead map view, I knew to the spot, 3-5 feet where it was when I lost signal and hit pause. I used the overhead map view to walk through the woods and bingo, there it was. This is truly the best tracking device, make sure you have "show flight route" checked, this seriously helped find it quickly.
NO damage and some muddy blades. Went through the entire XStar and all is good.
I set my return home to 800 feet (100+ feet above the highest peak I would be flying over)
I went up over the peak and all was good and then I lost video and RC connection.
Then it happened...I did what you should NEVER do.
Panicked, I friggin PANICKED, OMG I PANICKED!!!!!!!!!!
The second thing NOT to do is hit PAUSE, multiple times! The bird stopped in its tracks. I had NO connection and could not get it back, so the bird was just sitting there, burning battery. I waited in hopes to hear it coming home...nothing. There was plenty of juice to get it home. I got in my car and started driving towards it (heavily wooded and very steep roads). By the time could drive to where I thought it was, I COULD HEAR IT and the battery was now at 2% and landing. I could now see it on my map view and I was CLOSE, I kept trying every control to get it back...WRONG MOVE!
It came down through the trees and landed blades down. Thank goodness it was out of juice and the blades did not burn up any motors.
Point of the story...DON'T PANIC!!!
These things are smarter than this dummy controlling it. LET IT DO IT'S THING!!!
IF I would have NOT panicked and NOT touched the controls, it would have safely come home. Or at least back to where I had control as my RTH was well above any trouble.
Also, from the overhead map view, I knew to the spot, 3-5 feet where it was when I lost signal and hit pause. I used the overhead map view to walk through the woods and bingo, there it was. This is truly the best tracking device, make sure you have "show flight route" checked, this seriously helped find it quickly.
NO damage and some muddy blades. Went through the entire XStar and all is good.