Recent content by oshamtn

Thank you, Meta4. That explains the discrepancy. And I appreciate learning something I didn't know.

I will say this once again. The flight path as it appears on this and the several other screens that folks have displayed is accurate. It's accurate enough that I blew it up, traced the roads (thanks to Google satellite view, though Google mislabeled the applicable forest road: 478 should be...

You are correct that the points are displayed on the map properly, both home point and landing point and the course of the flight. But the coordinates describing those points are inaccurate. They are both out west of Taos Pueblo, not on the west slopes of the Sangre de Cristos. Plot those...

Then it did so on Apple Maps and Google Maps multiple times. Same thing on Phantom. The CSV file displays the wrong coordinates, as well.

Yes, that looks right. Wonderful -- I think you nailed it, mobilehomer! Any way you can display this location on a more detailed map overlay? Also, just curious: Did you get the coordinates for the takeoff location? At this point I'm more focused on getting back up there and searching with...

I don't understand it, either. That's why I'm asking. The mystery most useful to solve is this: If the DJI system can plot the course accurately on the map, which it did (and I had two spotters upslope, and I watched the video display on a fullsize iPad as the MA2 flew upslope until it cut off)...

I agree. That's why I'm asking. If the system was able to accurately plot the course of the MA2 (and I had two spotters, so I know that course is accurate), then surely the accurate coordinates are buried in there somewhere.

I checked both locations on my Garmin GPS unit on the first trip I made to look for the drone. My iPhone confirmed the Garmin numbers. I then plotted both locations on USFS maps for Carson National Forest, Camino Real Ranger District, as well as the appropriate Geological Survey Maps (Osha...

Thanks, but the problem is those coordinates are approximately 19 miles from the point shown on the map at the end of the flight. The coordinates shown from my TO location are also approximately 19 miles from that location. Neither of those locations are actually in the mountains. Both are on...

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I'm hoping to find my MA2, but given the high mountainous and overgrown terrain, I need accurate coordinates to start my search. The coordinates for takeoff and the remote landing site are approximately 19 miles off, far northwest of the location where I was flying. I know there's a built-in...

Thanks for posting the wind speeds. Yes, 50 mph would have been too much. Am I right in reading the wind direction on this chart at SE? If so, that would have been blowing the drone back toward the original takeoff spot, which was in the open area on the map a bit under the name Palo Flechado...

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Thanks. It's a bit confusing at this point. We searched for several days based on the location shown -- on the ground (in the snow) and in the trees. We couldn't find it. An earlier post by zeusfl indicated the wind was 50 mph+ for almost five minutes of flight at altitude, which would have been...