Geebax
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The Saint Posted at 6-7 17:53
thanks for bring up that scenario. sorry did you say you had an example of a blown away drone by high winds that was found and located using the marco polo?
I will freely admit if you fly your Mavic Mini in high winds and you are a mile out downwind 50mp and 400 feet up with 5% battery left on cine mode, the gps location in the Mavic Mini is not going to bail you out. i agree with you, for that situation it is absolutely and completely useless. but do we know how many times it has been helpful when a drone has been crashed and lost under ordinary and regular conditions? a few times, most of the time? will a Marco Polo probably work better? perhaps. but I simply cannot recommend polo for mm and ma2 drone pilots. get a vifly beacon locator thingy instead, that would be my opinion.
The vifly beacon is not a lot of use unless you are right on top of it, and with a continuous beeping alert, it will run out of power in a short time. The Marco Polo put out a radio beacon, the hand-held tracker shows you on a map display where the aircraft is located and when you are close, it can be made to beep at you. Much better solution, particularly for those countries that have dense bush undergrowth. |
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