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I lost my Mavic earlier. I was flying it and I lost contact as it started to go behind a hill. I moved to get into a better spot since I had flown there coulntless times, but I could not make contact again. I was in Sports mode, so maybe it continued i's path for too long and fast before and after the signal was lost. I drove to the area where I last observed on the video. I made contact with it. It looked like it was under a tree, and the message on the screen was that it could not lift-off because it was not level. It was getting dark, so I turned on the location flash and sounds. I did not hear anything or see anything. I tried to locate it on the map, but it didn't seem to know where it was. The remote said that it had GPS, and I had good signal. I moved around to see if my signal level would increase or decrease, but I got inconsistent results. Sometimes walking in a direction would make the signal level rise, other times, the same spot would have differnt results. I tried staying in one spot, rotating to see if the antenna position could help me out. No luck. My last attempt was to download the last video so that I could see where it was before it ended up under the tree. The flight video on my phone stops when the signal stopped. The video file must be husge. I started downloading it and even though I still had about 20% charge on the drone when I started, it did not complete before the drone ran out of juice. By then it was dark too, so I would have seen the flashes if the Mavic was close by. I am now trying to get the logs and any partial video files off the phone, although the one that was being downloaded from the drone while the battery ran out, is probably in a /tmp directory and is unavailable to me. Not sure what I can do. Oh, I also checked the Find My Drone area of the app. It shows the drone in the same spot that I lost signal. I was walking around that spot, or very close, but did not see nor hear it. That area is very hilly and there's lots of poison oak, so I couldn't stay out there and keep walking around in the dark. I am hoping I can get some better ideas of where to look before I go back tomorrow. Can anyone tell me where I can find the tools to read the log files? I am hoping that while I was connected to the Drone before the power went out, and it was still downloading the video, that it might have sent some information, like the GPS location before it went under the tree, or how far it tried to go to RTH or not, after the signal was lost. I am very surprised that RTH did not bring it back to me. But I have had it behave oddly when in sports mode when signal goes out and comes back and it seems to not know whether to continue RTH or Sports mode. RTH with Sports mode might be problematic too since the obstacle detection doesn't work or work as well in Sports mode? I am enclosing the screenshot of the Find My Drone screen. Is that location supposed to be where the drone was last reporting after the disappearance, or merely where my phone last had contact in-flight? Because that is where I was and could not see or hear it. I was assuming that maybe that was just where it last communicated before going down. Why it wouldn't update after when I had video signal, is beyond me. Thank you! -mz |