Mark The Droner
Second Officer
Flight distance : 2917 ft
United States
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Ideally, a drone will crash and the tracker will send its location after crashing. Or a drone will crash and the tracker will have sent it's location a second before the crash which will be logged on your mobile device. Since Flytrex turned off their servers in Aug 2017, I've been using Trackimo. It's not nearly as good as Flytrex as it only updates once a minute unless you manually request an update. And it doesn't always connect with the cell towers which means you will often have several minutes with no connection (Flytrex updated twice per second and didn't have cell tower connection problems). Nonetheless, it is possible to track the Trackimo location live in real time which can be handy provided you manually request the location, although you can only do it 3-4 times per minute since it takes 15-20 secs per request. I've crashed twice with the Trackimo, and neither time did it help me locate the drone. The first time, the Trackimo turned itself off on impact with the ground, although the device wasn't damaged. Turning itself off on impact is not helpful. The second time, the drone crashed near a barrier wall and so the Trackimo couldn't get satellites with so much of the sky blocked and so couldn't give me a helpful location even though I had the cell tower connection. Frustrating. Nonetheless, I use it anyway because I don't know of one that's better and I figure it's better than nothing. Theoretically it would work but it has failed me two out of two times, although it did give me its location prior to the crash which is somewhat helpful. I keep hoping somebody will develop a good tracker because Flytrex proved the tech is there - somebody just needs to figure it out and do it. Annual fee for the Trackimo is around $60 a year. Good luck. |
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