FOUND! Lost my Mavic Pro during storm

[Waynebru]

I put my phone number on the drone in case that someone honest finds it. Is that SOP?

 

[Dabrain]

You should invest in a Marco Polo, there is no monthly service fee and it doesn't rely on cell towers so if you are flying in a "no cell service area" like the mountains of Vermont it still works. It's also smaller and lighter than Trackimo (39 grams vs 12 grams), mounts nicely with landing gear attached (see pic) and is the same price as Trackimo. Marco Polo has already saved my drone once, it works great!

Yeah, I mounted mine on the top back of MP. It's right above compass 1 hasn't caused any problems. Was afraid that if the landing gear detached the MP would be lost and I would only find the landing gear. LOL

 

[Dabrain]

That seems to be a good website, will be checking it now on before i fly my drone.

By the way, I would suggest @ Thunderdrones to see about repair/information.

 

[GAF1568]

I think it probably went further than you searched - around 4 km. If you extrapolate the battery level at the final rate of depletion to the autoland level at that altitude, and then estimate aircraft position based on drift speed in RTH to that time, plus around 30 s to descend from 80 m, you get the following:

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That suggests it should have landed at around 9985 m from the home point. Extending the final track on the map to that distance gives:

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With a guess of ± 3° uncertainty in the heading for that period of drift, we get a lateral uncertainty at 4 km of around 400 m, and that's probably not a bad uncertainty estimate on distance either. The resulting area estimate is depicted by the yellow circle. That's where I would look.

Legend.

 

[GAF1568]

You lucky man!!! Great News.

 

[GAF1568]

You lucky man!!! Great News.