living in Ireland ..
the last few days I been working so no flights beautiful weather though
today thursday the 31st im off work off I go towards the beach / coast to catch some views of coastline and cliffs etc ..
brought my dog a springer spaniel I was there 2 min and she decided be a great idea to jump in a huge mud field so cleaned her off and drove to main area ..
could hear the beep beep beep of a low battery my craft was not even unpacked
looks up seen a mavic looked around seen a guy there walked over had a quick chat he landed the mavic we said our hellos etc and introduced ourselves for a sec and wished each other well
I headed back to car about 100 meters from him
unpacked / calibrated / checked sensors / checked battery / home point etc
put up mavic checked all around me brought it to just under 80 ft and off I flew once leisure pace
11 min later maybe I could hear a person running towards me .. can you help please pal my drone has lost connection
checked his controller he was using a Sony phone in it .. drone showed 3202 meters away and 143meters up I looked at him and asked what are you doing that far out and up that high ??
his face said it all I swear he was about 2 seconds away from tears so I said calm !
look relax give me the controller and I check it upon getting the controller I asked are you flying long ?/
got it yesterday was the answer I was like FFS another one so I said fine
checked the drone no response .. remember mine was in the air still so I hit rth on my drone and took his controller
no response from drone / reconnected app / nothing / checked the cable / nothing / asked did he set a return to home point he asked what was that ? I said never mind I knew where this was going !
hit nth and waited about 5 min I could see the last place drone was and screen wasnt changing
then I could hear mine coming him got mine in sight left his controller down manual landed mine .,. back to his 2 min later I could hear the buzz from his but so high nothing in sight
switched off rth and took control listening to the buzz either getting further away or closer and used that then got it spotted and got it back to landing point with 10% battery though I seen a tear in his eye thanked me a million times and gave me his number etc last thing I said was
R T F M
nice guy
long story but a true one
the last few days I been working so no flights beautiful weather though
today thursday the 31st im off work off I go towards the beach / coast to catch some views of coastline and cliffs etc ..
brought my dog a springer spaniel I was there 2 min and she decided be a great idea to jump in a huge mud field so cleaned her off and drove to main area ..
could hear the beep beep beep of a low battery my craft was not even unpacked
looks up seen a mavic looked around seen a guy there walked over had a quick chat he landed the mavic we said our hellos etc and introduced ourselves for a sec and wished each other well
I headed back to car about 100 meters from him
unpacked / calibrated / checked sensors / checked battery / home point etc
put up mavic checked all around me brought it to just under 80 ft and off I flew once leisure pace
11 min later maybe I could hear a person running towards me .. can you help please pal my drone has lost connection
checked his controller he was using a Sony phone in it .. drone showed 3202 meters away and 143meters up I looked at him and asked what are you doing that far out and up that high ??
his face said it all I swear he was about 2 seconds away from tears so I said calm !
look relax give me the controller and I check it upon getting the controller I asked are you flying long ?/
got it yesterday was the answer I was like FFS another one so I said fine
checked the drone no response .. remember mine was in the air still so I hit rth on my drone and took his controller
no response from drone / reconnected app / nothing / checked the cable / nothing / asked did he set a return to home point he asked what was that ? I said never mind I knew where this was going !
hit nth and waited about 5 min I could see the last place drone was and screen wasnt changing
then I could hear mine coming him got mine in sight left his controller down manual landed mine .,. back to his 2 min later I could hear the buzz from his but so high nothing in sight
switched off rth and took control listening to the buzz either getting further away or closer and used that then got it spotted and got it back to landing point with 10% battery though I seen a tear in his eye thanked me a million times and gave me his number etc last thing I said was
R T F M
nice guy
long story but a true one