Did you find your drone in the end?
Nope, the farmer has since harvested the long grass for the winter feed and not been in touch to say he found it.
That leaves the fracking company, the farmer, and the beast of Bolton as the likely suspects. I'm unsure how it would/could be anyone else.
A new mavic has been drafted into the airforce, this one has a tracker and insurance. It's doing between 15 & 30k's a day and so far has been good as gold. They can really handle the wind in sport mode! I would like to find something like the online data analyzers to find out just what wind-speeds it has been put through but offline, I really don't want my data "out there."
Suffice to say the highest wind we have dared fly in would make him drift in GPS mode, but happy to lean in and make headway in sports. The weather forecast was showing 20mph but conditions both locally, and in the air, would have been different.
We had to get a new phone as the Galaxy 4s refused to connect after 4 months of an app crash riddled time, and even an Iphone 5s (which is compatible according to the website (but you got to really look for that list)) which was working fine for three days and then crashed to the point I updated EVERYTHING and it still wouldn't hold the connection. I reinstalled Go4 and since it has been fine, though slowing down a little every now and then.
Why can they not make an app that works on a majority of phones not just a select few, for those like myself that don't care about fixed wing mode or active track and just want a good old FPV monitor with battery notification and a simple map. It worked fine for months on the SGS4 which has a bigger screen that the crappy i5s.
When the App behaves the Mavic is a dream to use, and it has made my job so much easier. Quiet, compact and lightweight but with enough power to handle big wind. I would love to see a race between a
P4 and MP in high winds, I still reckon the
P4 would win though.
The one thing that has p'd me off is the "platinum" and it's quiet props. I like quiet as it has less chance to annoy anyone, why can the pro not use these props as well?