BLUF:
1. How best to dry out my rain and water soaked MP? Or is it bricked?
2. One of the arms is mis-aligned - where can I get it repaired?
3. How and where can I post the logs so I can understand and learn from my mistakes? (Beyond what I already know: I got cocky and did a galactically dumb thing)?
The Story:
After almost a year of flying I finally lodged my MP2 about 60 feet up into a tree next to a lake. It started raining later that evening and rained all day Sunday and this morning right up to the point where I shook the bird free. (How I got it free is another day's tale). It dropped to the ground and bounced into the shallows of the lake just before I was able to grab it.
Thanks to the many posts I've read here which have helped me to fly safely, and assured me that I WOULD crash eventually, I kept calm and used the flight log to get close to the last know location. Then I pulled out my Marco Polo locator (also recommended here) between it and the image that was still coming from the quad I found it.
When it came down the locator came off (I have it velcroed to the top of the quad). Just to see if I could find it, I turned on the locator and homed in on the beacon. It was giving me about a 60% strength rating and an arrow pointing into the water. I found it sitting in 6 inches of water- still beeping away. For the record: on a full charge, it signaled from 1pm on Saturday until I turned it off at noon today; through 24 hours of rain and maybe 10 minutes underwater in the lake. I will never fly without Marco Polo again.
1. How best to dry out my rain and water soaked MP? Or is it bricked?
2. One of the arms is mis-aligned - where can I get it repaired?
3. How and where can I post the logs so I can understand and learn from my mistakes? (Beyond what I already know: I got cocky and did a galactically dumb thing)?
The Story:
After almost a year of flying I finally lodged my MP2 about 60 feet up into a tree next to a lake. It started raining later that evening and rained all day Sunday and this morning right up to the point where I shook the bird free. (How I got it free is another day's tale). It dropped to the ground and bounced into the shallows of the lake just before I was able to grab it.
Thanks to the many posts I've read here which have helped me to fly safely, and assured me that I WOULD crash eventually, I kept calm and used the flight log to get close to the last know location. Then I pulled out my Marco Polo locator (also recommended here) between it and the image that was still coming from the quad I found it.
When it came down the locator came off (I have it velcroed to the top of the quad). Just to see if I could find it, I turned on the locator and homed in on the beacon. It was giving me about a 60% strength rating and an arrow pointing into the water. I found it sitting in 6 inches of water- still beeping away. For the record: on a full charge, it signaled from 1pm on Saturday until I turned it off at noon today; through 24 hours of rain and maybe 10 minutes underwater in the lake. I will never fly without Marco Polo again.