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Run Away Drone

Posted by Mitchell Yazdani on August 6, 2013 at 5:50pm

Hi All,

I was wondering what is everyone doing to avoind loosing a run away drone? How do you track it down?

Like DIY Drones or DJI Phantom.

My Phantom was running away and disappearing in the bush far away and I was lucky I got it back in time. How do you find it in case like that?

Thanks

Mitchell

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  • Tommy Larsen August 13, 2013 at 6:09am

    If you use telemetry remember to set the "Change speed" to zero and got to manual mode before you start searching for your aircraft! Otherwise your aircraft will be lying with a prop trying to move and your battery will empty very fast. Worst case your ESC or engine will fire upp and make fire to the surroundings. I actually lost my plane yesterday and recovered it my using it's lat/lon very easy. The plane was alomost 4km away from me. First thing was to set speed to zero and then manual mode.

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    Richard Boyhan August 11, 2013 at 10:06am
    Install a telemetry modem so when it flys away you have a log of where it went.
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