Fly Away

peterc4 · Apr 18, 2020

raytom said:
The Tower in the front of the picture, do you know what kind of stuff ist installed on it?

It is a BT tower not sure what it puts out have flew here before with no issues

jacksamspike · Apr 18, 2020

peterc4 said:
Well after having a Mavi on pre order then an air on pre order then a 2 pro on preorder the dreaded day came yesterday at 1400ft away my smart controller screen went black and white and lost connection and that was that gone mavic 2 pro gone for ever. Have contacted DJI today. As anyone else been unfortunate enough to have this. Cheers

zeddock · Apr 18, 2020

peterc4 said:
They are great mate love my smart controller

Would a smart controller help in this case?

zeddock · Apr 18, 2020

zeddock said:
Would a smart controller help in this case?

They look nice, and I want one, but I gotta justify it. I couldn't when I bought my Mavic 2 Pro last week. So, looking for a little more experience as to WHY it would be a good add-on.

Thanx!

Great thread here folks!

Robert A · Apr 18, 2020

Did you try to use the return to home on your remote controller?

Bob L · Apr 18, 2020

peterc4 said:
Thanks for your reply please find attached flight log, Thanks again

What program are you opening this in?

Bob L · Apr 18, 2020

peterc4 said:
Wow thanks a lot, based on your report it doesnt look like i have a leg to stand on with DJI, will head up there shortly and have a look as that is where i go for my daily excersize will let you know how i get on, again thanks alot

Any luck finding the drone?

sar104 · Apr 19, 2020

Not A Speck Of Cereal said:
If it's radar and you get too close, it can drop your aircraft right to the ground.

ASK ME HOW I KNOW!

Chris

It's not radar, but those are microwave horns. I had wondered if they might be causing the logging errors, if not the actual flight problem.

peterc4 · Apr 19, 2020

zeddock said:
Would a smart controller help in this case?

Not really mate no i did get my flight log of mine pretty sure not 100% you can get it of the dji go app

peterc4 · Apr 19, 2020

sar104 said:
It's not radar, but those are microwave horns. I had wondered if they might be causing the logging errors, if not the actual flight problem.

It is a bt tower and mostly decomissioned 3 years ago you could not see the the tower for aeriels and dishes have flew here once when it was fully live with no issues

peterc4 · Apr 19, 2020

Robert A said:
Did you try to use the return to home on your remote controller?

Yes 1st thing i done there was no power to the aircraft so didnt work

peterc4 · Apr 19, 2020

Bob L said:
Any luck finding the drone?

No mate have spent a good while looking for it think its in the canopy

peterc4 · Apr 19, 2020

zeddock said:
They look nice, and I want one, but I gotta justify it. I couldn't when I bought my Mavic 2 Pro last week. So, looking for a little more experience as to WHY it would be a good add-on.

Thanx!

Great thread here folks!

Smart controllers are costly i have had mine over a year now and would not have anything else , the main thing being turn on connected and away no phone and the screen is a delight in sunlight, i have 4 batteries and when i have used them there is around 30% left, you wont be dissapointed

Bob L · Apr 19, 2020

peterc4 said:
No mate have spent a good while looking for it think its in the canopy

You would thing someone would invent a locator. Maybe some sort of gps beacon. After all they have other attachments. Even if it would just get you close. It could have a timer that could be set to go off in say 3O minutes or so after takeoff then reset after landing. Seems like there are a lot of lost birds out there.
Just a though.

sar104 · Apr 19, 2020

Bob L said:
You would thing someone would invent a locator. Maybe some sort of gps beacon. After all they have other attachments. Even if it would just get you close. It could have a timer that could be set to go off in say 3O minutes or so after takeoff then reset after landing. Seems like there are a lot of lost birds out there.
Just a though.

There are lots of options for that.

Bob L · Apr 19, 2020

sar104 said:
There are lots of options for that.

Thank you for your post on data.

Bob L · Apr 19, 2020

sar104 said:
It's not radar, but those are microwave horns. I had wondered if they might be causing the logging errors, if not the actual flight problem.

I was a land surveyor and when ever we had to work under or around high voltage lines, I'm talking about the high voltage transfer lines, we had trouble with our total stations. (computerized instruments). Had to move away from them. I would suspect they would also have an affect on a drone. I have never flown close to this type of power line.

sar104 · Apr 19, 2020

Bob L said:
I was a land surveyor and when ever we had to work under or around high voltage lines, I'm talking about the high voltage transfer lines, we had trouble with our total stations. (computerized instruments). Had to move away from them. I would suspect they would also have an affect on a drone. I have never flown close to this type of power line.

These drones are mostly unaffected by high-voltage transmission lines - not enough current flowing to cause problems.

MAvic_South_Oz · Apr 19, 2020

Bob L said:
You would thing someone would invent a locator. Maybe some sort of gps beacon. After all they have other attachments. Even if it would just get you close. It could have a timer that could be set to go off in say 3O minutes or so after takeoff then reset after landing. Seems like there are a lot of lost birds out there.
Just a though.

Besides the several drone specific locator beacons, something like the ARCXL might be good for this sort of event . . . it has the 90db audible alarm as well as the 1000 lumen strobe.

Goes off if the drone(strobe) does not detect movement for 4 Minutes.

FHT ARC XL STROBE / ALARM

Csuyz125 · Apr 26, 2020

slup said:
The flight logs are in the mobile device you used when you flew, nothing is saved in the RC you refer to ...see here under point 3 on how to retrieve them --> Flight log retrieval and analysis guide

The problem is my mobile device battery died while I was flying and I was only using the RC. Every time I pushed the RTH button the RC went into RTH mode and the drone elevated to set altitude and said it was retiring home but then wouldn’t come home. I switched back to manual and it would only respond to going up/down and then when back to RTH mode it would reposition 20 yards over and to the set elevation and then start landing so I would switch back to manual because it was landing in the lake not at the home point. The battery finally died and it landed in the lake and disappeared. I hope to find this summer.
This was on the 4th of July, so wondering if it’s possible that fireworks going off nearby could have caused it not to respond?