Recent content by acrossthenight

Ok thanks. What do you think is a realistic margin of error eg how big of a radius from the likely touch down point would you recommend to try searching? Thanks again

Thanks for this. We had a pretty long looK around this area but no dice. I’m curious to know how you can work this out incorporating the wind speed so accurately - totally trust your math - just I look at it and am surprised it gone blown this far away. Do you need to assume a certain constant...

Thanks for the feedback. Is there some video guide etc which explains wind and signal issues in more detail. A lot of members here seem to understand them well but I don’t and it’s not for want of trying

Ok. Thanks. Does this mean where the wind is faster than the drone it can potentially have ended up further away than the last distance I got before the battery died? Is there anyway to calculate the heading so I can just walk the route?

Yeah. My main question is if the wind is blowing it back does it keep trying to fly into the wind or does it give up and land? How would I calculate the rough Bearing it would have been flying along to try and walk the route?

I’ve had a look a logs on Phantom Help but don’t know where to start looking.

Nope Mavic. Sorry forgot this. Mavic Platinum. It was missing a few weeks ago and then found it. Was going to get it fully repaired but was trying to get some video before we went home. I checked wind speed on ground with Drone Buddy abd had also let it hover for a while before I set it off. Can...

Was flying my drone on a mountain. Had put it up in the air to check the wind and it was holding fine. Didnt see any issues with wind or performance. At some point I bumped on cinematic mode. I meant to turn it off but forgot. The drone was around 1km away and started having connection issues. I...

I went back the town today where I lost it and checked out the area suggested by @sar104. It was a pretty steep, slippery and difficult chunk of hillside to try and look around. I spent 4 hrs sliding around and climbing through thick brush trying to stick around 25-32 m (to account for trees)...

Thanks I'll take a look

I don't know quite how you do this but its very cool and extremely helpful. I will give this a try. Thanks so much

Thanks this is really useful feedback appreciate it

Thanks for the feedback. Is it fair to say that if I had dropped the altitude earlier or changed to sports mode the result is different? Would it have been easier/possible to not try to fly direct into the wind but try to push the drone north or south onto the headland to try and land it or get...

Yeah I actually did this because I found in the very beginning when I first used a DJI spark 2-3 yrs ago) that my instincts were to use my right hand for altitude - I think it comes from playing too much XBox when I was younger where right hand up controlled looking up or something.

Thanks for your to the point responses. Does this mean if right away I had flicked it to sports mode I might still have a drone...?