Recent content by makemineamac

No, I launched near it, and have many times in the past. As many have suggested, it appears that the building, and the state of darkness were valid reasons it started to drift. So happy I got it back and it's on it's way back to DJI for my Refresh.

Thanks Tony! I was told not to send the battery the last time, so not sure about that. The batteries are on sale right now at Best Buy so maybe I should buy one. So happy it's not sitting on that roof in the rain...

Some news. Could not find the building super today and it has been raining here non-stop since yesterday morning. It is the Pacific Northwest so we do live in a rainforest. Anyway, at 4pm today I ran a Craigslist ad offering $75 to anyone with a ladder and the ability to get here to help me...

You guys are all amazing some great ideas here for sure. I'm going to talk to the Building Superintendent and offer him $50 or something if he can help me get it. Thanks for all the input.

Thanks again for the thoughtful input. I should say the majority of this flight was at least 200 feet away from the building. When I was attempting to get it back to me, that must be when the shadow of the building impacted the GPS reliability. And if I had thought I could have switched modes...

Thanks for your diagnosis slup, and not trying to blame DJI, it was getting dark for sure, this was the last photo I took before it started to drift. I just didn't understand what was happening, it just started to move uncontrollably and so I tried to keep it away from the building but it wasn't...

Yeah, I wish I could see if it is snagged, I don't think it is.

There's that for sure!

For sure, and I'm on the Refresh program so I would have loved to get it back, but I'm not taking any chances.

Love the ideas, I wasn't flying, I bought a painters pole, taped my GoPro to it, put my 13 foot extension ladder against the building and climbed to the top, then extended the pole to see where it was. I had created a duct tape thing to get it as well. If it was closer to the accessible side -...

Thanks again, and I was going to go rent an extension ladder to go get it, but with 2020 being they year that it has been, I decided it's not worth the risk. I had had it on 2 previous flights yesterday, but the battery was still at 57%, and I was just trying to get some progress shots of this...

It's on an inaccessible roof. I did what I could to retrieve it earlier today but just can't get to it unfortunately. There haver been a couple of other times where my Mini has done this drift sort of thing - where I have great GPS connectivity - but it still seems like it is moving back and...

Thanks Thomas, Arizona sounds nice. It is about one year old exactly. And yes I had VLOS the whole time....

I had a crash yesterday near an office building and want to better understand what happened. While I was taking some photos of an existing Construction site that I photograph every other week the drone started to drift. There was no wind at all and it wasn't that high. It was probably 70 feet...