I’ve lost a drone in the forest (in Northern Paraguay, while shooting a documentary). My colleagues didn’t take any of the necessary precautions, and actually were not prepared or trained to fly it and it and a mixture of complete inexperience with controls, very heavy winds, and probably even poor satellite signal, made it go out of sight, and the loose battery, and fall or land somewhere in a dense patch of low-trees forest... A pity, because we were fixing to get some amazing images of a very special region of the world not yet very much seen from above :-/

When I look at the DJI Go App, this unfortunate flight has left a record in Flight Records, and I can see the whole path, trajectory, from the place where it took off, and from that we have a rough idea of which area in the forest it is in. But without a precise location it is very difficult.

Does anybody know if there is a way to extract GPS coordinates from the flight record? That way we could know more precisely where exactly it disappeared, and start the search there. It must have coordinates because even being an area without phone signal, when i arrived at proper internet reception, it plots the flight path unto satellite imagery, and it perfectly matches the geographical landmark of the home point, for instance, etc.. I have triangulated that information unto google-earth to try to find an exact location, but I can’t be very precise...

I would appreciate any input..

Thank you!

You can upload the FlightRecord to my online conversion tool:
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Hi, ernestodc. You can ask our service department for help. They can help you. Good luck.

send me a map and the flight recording, so I can start looking, would have liked a inspire in reserve

sorry to hear about your loss. It is however good to know that it was due to a number of controllable factors that were not met, it puts myself at ease as a new user. I would of been more paranoid if you had lost it and it was not down to anything you could of done.

So i think for search into a big area you need another drone. In this case IS more simple find The lost drone!

f.selvini@gmail Posted at 2015-8-15 00:14
So i think for search into a big area you need another drone. In this case IS more simple find The l ...

Lol... Good luck with that idea.

Just for the record, you can also convert your log on http://flylitchi.com/logs, which will give you all coordinates in a CSV file (free)