Kamikaze Flyer
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United States
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I feel for you man. I lost mine 3 times and fortunately fate intervened. My son in law gave me mine for Christmas if 2014, we didn't fly it on Christmas day because the battery needed charging and I wanted to read a bit more in the instructions. So about a week later he and I were flying the Phantom at a nearby country park. It was my turn to fly and I decided to see how fast it would fly. The last I saw of it was as it passed a bunch of fir trees on its way over the near by mountain. So I wouldn't be totally culpable I quickly shoved the controller into my son in laws hands and yelled "save it" . Of course he couldn't. So we somberly watched the expensive toy sail off into the wild blue yonder.
We spent over an hour searching for the drone. I was searching the near side of the river and he was on the other side and up the side of the mountain. He had done one thing I should have mentioned, he shut off the controller as soon as I handed it to him.
Now as we were driving out of the park I looked out at the field where we had been flying the drone and there it was big as life sitting right were we were flying it from. I hadn't read far enough in the directions to learn that if the drone us flying in GPS mode, and you shut off the controller the drone will fly straight up to 65 feet and return to where it was last set.
The other 2 times were very similar. I was flying the drone in my back yard which is really too small even if it is about an acre, Anyway, I got the directions and instead of flying toward me it flew right into the forest that surrounds out property. I could hear it thrashing about in the forest before it quit. It was getting toward dark and I gave up after searching for about an hour with no sign of the drone. I went in to eat dinner and I suddenly had and idea. I had not turned off the controller and thought the lights on the drone might still be blinking. Sure enough, when i approached the woods, I could see a light blinking way in the forest. Other than me getting shins barked and many scratches I retrieved the Phantom laying in the dirt not hurt a bit. Even the leading edges of the props were fine. |
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