Daveb500
lvl.4
Flight distance : 191742 ft
United Kingdom
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I had that first feeling today of i've lost my drone. I went to survey a river bank, one ive flown and worked on for somrtime now. First issue was when I got on site I could not get a clear connection to the drone through the go app. After a number of shut downs and reboots of everything I checked my phone, and found it had also conected to the wifi, so I shut the phone down completely. I use an old sony Z1 for the drone, it has worked fine until now. Anyway that gave me a good signal on the sony, and I managed to take off, I flew to the start point and started recording. I flew down the river, height was 120ft, and clear of all obstructions, this river meanders aloth her so line of sight wasnt far, but flight disatnce was as I twisted and turned down the river, then 3 mintues into the flight the app froze on the phone. As I was using that to follow the twists, I had lost which dot in the sky the phantom was. So I flicked the return to home togle, and waited. I heard the voice stutter badly go ho,e. well ggggg o o go H h home. Nothing happened the screnn was still fozen, I could see the battery live dropping, it showed 47%. After a couple of minutes looking and listening, I still couldnt hear the bird. Thats when I thought ohh s****t . I killed the app, and startred to walk down stream towards where the bird should be, still could nt hear it. I tried rebooting the app, still nothing. so I rebooted the phone. As I did that I tried the return to home switch again. After a minute I heard the buzz of the bird, and what a feeling of relief I saw the dot flying towards its take off point. I ran back to take control and landed safe and sound.
Back home I checked the flight log, and after less than a minute the log stopped. the next recorded log was when I had rebooted the phone and the bird was on its return to home about 1800ft away from me. Everthing else is lost.
As to the recoding it recorded the flight for 3.30minutes then again nothing.
After that I dont want to use the old sony again, so it time to start finding a tablet that will work with no worries.
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