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    Mavic Mini Flyaway in Adelaide

    Yeah, it landed about 1/3 of the way between the last known GPS coordinates and sar104's landing point, almost exactly on the red line.
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    Mavic Mini Flyaway in Adelaide

    Just thought I'd spread a bit of a good news story. Some kind soul found my drone, looked at the last video and returned it to the house I took off from. It's time to write my number on it and try and be more cautious. I thought I had a pretty good idea of the drone's limits when I took it out...
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    Mavic Mini Flyaway in Adelaide

    I just found it suspicious that the line away from the home point was so straight and at such a constant speed, so close to the speed it would normally return at. The behaviour looked to me like it just had the direction of home backwards. I would have imagined gusts would knock it about more...
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    Mavic Mini Flyaway in Adelaide

    Thanks everyone for your time and help. I'm just still struggling to come to terms with it. Especially as the largest gusts of wind in Adelaide on that day were supposedly 20-30km/h and I had a sucessful flight less than an hour earlier in the same conditions. As for 8mph seeming fast in tripod...
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    Mavic Mini Flyaway in Adelaide

    Hi, I just wanted to have some other people look at my logs as DJI are just saying it's my fault for losing this drone. Basically I took off and flew around an area I know well in Adelaide. It's in the hills so there are occasional gully winds but they are generally just short gusts or it's...