HI.. Just wondering if anybody is using or had experience with the Loc8tor or what appears to be the rebranded Tabcat for honing in on a lost drone?
I had my Mavic go down suddenly while doing a 32 Km/h run over a soybean field while shooting video. I was at about 2 meter height and the soybean is just under one meter I'd say. The "find my drone" showed it 98 meters away in a 500 meter field, so I set out. Walking through Soy is akin to strolling through a pond full of Octopus with tentacles wrapping into the search, upside down, and very well disguised. As I was shooting video at the time, I found that it apparently records about 9 minutes of video and then starts a new file and does another 9 min and so on.
Video review explained why it went down. It shows a sudden drop of a foot and then a rotation and a frame or two of the sky, then upside down in soybean
About 10 seconds after that, I can see a Hawk, walking around and examining it, likely wondering why he never drew blood. He visited it one more time in the next minute or so.
Also it shows I walked by within 2 feet of it three times during the search, the first time at the nine (9) minute mark. Very thankful I did not step on it! The point being, the GPS location worked well as it got me to the right spot and saved the day, but I was thinking that if I would have had an RF locator as mentioned above, it would have been found in 8 or 9 minutes as opposed to 24, or not at all, and saved a lot of sweat! Any thoughts or recommendations?
I had my Mavic go down suddenly while doing a 32 Km/h run over a soybean field while shooting video. I was at about 2 meter height and the soybean is just under one meter I'd say. The "find my drone" showed it 98 meters away in a 500 meter field, so I set out. Walking through Soy is akin to strolling through a pond full of Octopus with tentacles wrapping into the search, upside down, and very well disguised. As I was shooting video at the time, I found that it apparently records about 9 minutes of video and then starts a new file and does another 9 min and so on.
Video review explained why it went down. It shows a sudden drop of a foot and then a rotation and a frame or two of the sky, then upside down in soybean
About 10 seconds after that, I can see a Hawk, walking around and examining it, likely wondering why he never drew blood. He visited it one more time in the next minute or so.Also it shows I walked by within 2 feet of it three times during the search, the first time at the nine (9) minute mark. Very thankful I did not step on it! The point being, the GPS location worked well as it got me to the right spot and saved the day, but I was thinking that if I would have had an RF locator as mentioned above, it would have been found in 8 or 9 minutes as opposed to 24, or not at all, and saved a lot of sweat! Any thoughts or recommendations?
