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Flight distance : 369321 ft
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Ok, so my brother decides to go drunk droning with my Phantom 4 at 3am. His next bad decision was to attempt to fly the P4 thru the door opening at the motel he was staying at. He clipped the door frame and the drone crash landed. He picked it right up and activated the rotors and took off before the drone was even able to set its home point location. He had the controller in the 'Attitude' flight mode. The bad decisions continued to mount....he just pushed both sticks forward on the controller until it was approx 1000 feet away from him and approx 400 feet altitude. He never hooked his phone to the controller. The controller started to beep...the battery in the controller died moments later....He had no idea what to do besides sit and wait for it to return....it never did. He only knew the general direction in which it flew off. At nearly an hour later he calls me and I rush over there to look for it. It has been over a month now since it left home. Under the battery I have my name and number and a "reward if found" message to which I have received no calls. I have little hope for its return at this point because I have spent many hours searching on foot...by 4 wheeler....and using my mavic pro to look from the air. But if I understood a little more about how the P4 would react in this situation maybe I can narrow the search area a little bit. So if the P4 was receiving a signal from the controller to go full speed ahead as well as climb in altitude, then suddenly lost signal from the controller, how is it programmed to react in that situation? given the fact that it may not have a home point recorded...and the fact that it was dark....and its last signal from the controller had it in attitude flight mode. I did a sync of the flight records with the controller. There is no record at all of its last flight.
I have already learned my lesson from this...my brother is no longer allowed to play with my toys, especially while drinking. LoL Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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