Lost drone after 3 days..
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@sar104, if I may just slightly drift off topic for a sec.. (in atti mode..
)If I look at the OP's flight log, then download the CSV file, open CSV Viewer, it says 'corrupt' file or similar and I cant open it.
However, take a .txt file from my device, I can see lots of data..
What am I doing wrong please?
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Hey Max,
One more thing that would have assured the return of your Mavic,
You took off with 66% battery in cold weather,
Never, ever, ever, never take off with less than a fully charged battery.
If your battery was 100% at take off your drone would have landed at your feet.
Sorry buddy,
I feel for you,
Hope you find it.
One more thing that would have assured the return of your Mavic,
You took off with 66% battery in cold weather,
Never, ever, ever, never take off with less than a fully charged battery.
If your battery was 100% at take off your drone would have landed at your feet.
Sorry buddy,
I feel for you,
Hope you find it.
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Unless someone here can view the logs and crunch some numbers, only thing I could think off is walk in a straight line from your home position to the last known location. Look up at trees and roofs. If gps was still working, even as it was trying to land at critical battery, it should be in the straight line.
Unless someone has found it already, and kept it?
I think there was a lot of mistakes made this one instance. Write them down, and make sure you don’t do it again.
@sar104, if I may just slightly drift off topic for a sec.. (in atti mode..
If I look at the OP's flight log, then download the CSV file, open CSV Viewer, it says 'corrupt' file or similar and I cant open it.
However, take a .txt file from my device, I can see lots of data..
What am I doing wrong please?
There are some issues with the PhantomHelp CSV interpretation of the txt files (especially Mavic files), and it doesn't extract all the data to the CSV anyway. It's much better to download the original log file (txt) from the PhantomHelp website and then use that directly in CsvView.
Thankyou @sar104 so do I just click on the link that the OP provided, where then is the .txt? I only see a .KML, a .CSV and a log file that is gobblygook and I cant (or dont know how to..) save it?
Edit: Found it. Right click save file as! Thanks mate!
Yes - the "log file" is the original txt log file. You just have to save it as a txt if that doesn't happen automatically.
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I would say this is the most likely area to look at.
To me your battery at start is the main reason. Newer start a long fly on half loaded battery.
Also it's fighting wind at RTH + altitude is high. In colder weather is's more important to look at the battery level.
I suggest you ask a local drone pilot for help. They can canvas the area quickly from above and check to see if the drone landed on someone’s roof or in a tree. Good luck
Hi Max, sorry for your loss, if it were me I walk the line that it was supposed to be on and if I come across a building I would see if I could ask to go to the top if it were possible to have a look. The Mavic will land anywhere if the battery is depleted. If you know anyone with a drone ask them to send their one up and have a look.
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Hey Max,
I just ran across your thread and glad to see you recovered your drone. Thankfully there are still honest people about.
If I may, I suggest you practice a few emergency landing procedures; preferably in the daylight. I had a similar experience with the wind eating up my battery upon RTH (my fault not checking wind speed) but I initiated an emergency landing procedure which included canceling RTH to gain control of the drone and emediately looked for an LZ and defended. Once at 1 meter AGL I was able to creep along the ground towards a road until the auto landing system kicked in.
I had full battery when I took off, my pilot error was not checking the weather.
A second thought is, if you don’t have DJI refresh, then the parts are redially available online. I’ve tore into my controllers (broke a few things that I had to replace) and learned quite a bit about controllers and radio waves, frequencies in the process.
Finally, as a pilot of a drone as well as having a pilots license for general aviation aircraft, I suggest we all abide by the max altitude rule. Imagine a family on a cross country flight crashing into a drone in the middle of the night in a small plane, or worst, an ultralight aircraft without a windshield.
No lessons are better than those learned the hard way. Again, I’m glad you recovered your drone. Check YouTube for repair instructions and you’ll be flying again in no time
I just ran across your thread and glad to see you recovered your drone. Thankfully there are still honest people about.
If I may, I suggest you practice a few emergency landing procedures; preferably in the daylight. I had a similar experience with the wind eating up my battery upon RTH (my fault not checking wind speed) but I initiated an emergency landing procedure which included canceling RTH to gain control of the drone and emediately looked for an LZ and defended. Once at 1 meter AGL I was able to creep along the ground towards a road until the auto landing system kicked in.
I had full battery when I took off, my pilot error was not checking the weather.
A second thought is, if you don’t have DJI refresh, then the parts are redially available online. I’ve tore into my controllers (broke a few things that I had to replace) and learned quite a bit about controllers and radio waves, frequencies in the process.
Finally, as a pilot of a drone as well as having a pilots license for general aviation aircraft, I suggest we all abide by the max altitude rule. Imagine a family on a cross country flight crashing into a drone in the middle of the night in a small plane, or worst, an ultralight aircraft without a windshield.
No lessons are better than those learned the hard way. Again, I’m glad you recovered your drone. Check YouTube for repair instructions and you’ll be flying again in no time
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eBay is saturated. Also you can find an engineer with a 3D printer. The files for every part of the drone’s structure can be downloaded and printed. I work at a company with lots of young engineers who also fly drones. It seems to be the norm with them to own a desktop 3D printer.
Hope that helps
Hope that helps
Sorry to be OT for a sec... when I was a kid it was cool to find a fresh piece of A4 paper to make a paper plane...
Nowadays, they wouldn't worry....just print one....
hi max, glad your "lost drone" drop worked out.
try amazon they do lots of parts now
or contact thunderdrones Thunderdrones
Hey Max, in respect to your flight path, or predicted one, where was the RPA found?
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Can you turn it on? If so you can get the dat file from the drone and it will tell what happened.
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