Da-Jiang Innovations user
lvl.3
Flight distance : 1121230 ft
South Africa
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Last weekend, I took my drone (mini 2) for a flight, recorded some footage ETC. Something happened to me for the first time.....I had a rather hard landing (or light crash) in long grass and a shrubs.
It landed about 800 metres away from me, and in a mountainous area. I am no stranger to using the "find my drone" and tried this immediately, but as luck would have it, there was "no connection" between the drone and remote. Weird I thought....The battery would not have been below 80%. So all I could use to track was cached video footage to the phone.
Geez, what a huge difference the drone flying angle makes!!!
It took me a good hour, and a lot of visually lining up similar looking rocks and shrubs to pinpoint where it could be.
When I got there, and found my drone... surprisingly - the drone was on it's head and still turned on, the battery well above 80%.
If I didn't have the cached footage to track it down, I would probably still be up there looking for my drone (believe me, I wouldn't stop until I found it)
This makes me wonder.... What if there was an Independent module system or something, not relying on the drone's battery. Wouldn't it be great if it had it's own seperate internal battery which could charge (just spitballing here) via a small solar panel, or draw current (somehow) from the main battery..It would still just need to beep and flash.
Or maybe it could insist on a certain percentage charge before it would take off.
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