Hello!
I’m helping a friend by trying to recover his lost Mavic Mini.
In short, he appears to have done the usual mistake of flying in wind and panicking instead of just landing ASAP, eventually losing contact and then losing the drone.
In his defense, his house is behind a plateau. I live nearby and fly fixed wing mostly and during NW winds I avoid flying due to odd rotors and turbulence from that direction.
But still, I guess this will be a recurring theme with the Minis and inexperienced pilots flying downwind.
Wind acc to the nearest lighthouse station was 9 m/s at 323 (NW) so I did some hand-calculation attempts at estimating the possible landing zone, assuming the Mini is trying to RTH after 11 sec and 51% battery from his screendump and assuming drift speed 1,5 m/s, but the area is simply too big and my calculations too inexact.
Now I got the logs synched to
Airdata. They state a slightly different 293 deg wind. I hope someone here could assist me to improve the landing precision. There are several big fields in the area as well as dense forest, with some luck it could be recovered.
Airdata log:
I’m helping a friend by trying to recover his lost Mavic Mini.
In short, he appears to have done the usual mistake of flying in wind and panicking instead of just landing ASAP, eventually losing contact and then losing the drone.
In his defense, his house is behind a plateau. I live nearby and fly fixed wing mostly and during NW winds I avoid flying due to odd rotors and turbulence from that direction.
But still, I guess this will be a recurring theme with the Minis and inexperienced pilots flying downwind.
Wind acc to the nearest lighthouse station was 9 m/s at 323 (NW) so I did some hand-calculation attempts at estimating the possible landing zone, assuming the Mini is trying to RTH after 11 sec and 51% battery from his screendump and assuming drift speed 1,5 m/s, but the area is simply too big and my calculations too inexact.
Now I got the logs synched to
Airdata. They state a slightly different 293 deg wind. I hope someone here could assist me to improve the landing precision. There are several big fields in the area as well as dense forest, with some luck it could be recovered.
Airdata log: