Losing drone

Orqa FPV Support

started a topic almost 5 years ago

Dear pilots, as always, Orqa is listening to the community.

We would love to hear about your experience with losing drones.
How many times did that happened to you? And in which cases?
Which solution are you using for preventing that? If so, how would you do it better?
What does the FPV hobby miss in this very case?

What do you think could help in this case?
How many of you would like to have something that would prevent that?

Looking forward to getting feedback from you guys!

Kevin Mattern

said almost 5 years ago

one time i stuck in a tree, beeing that bad at tree climbing, an injured man (broken arm!) climbed up in a jiffy and rescued my "flamewheel f450", it was a LOS player. Another day with another quad, my gps/sonar/bluetooth(EZ-GUI)/got-it-all-but-fpv stuffed LOS kwad, was a spektrum - PPM powered TBS ALIEN 500 frame (DIY naze made of stm32 bluepill board) and on it's maiden with a brand new 4.000mAh 3S LiPo the bluetooth module was still connected to my phone which propably had the PPM-signal get corrupted...it was a fly-away. Powered of my DX6i tx and the kwads failsafe kicked in => slowly sinkin and i had to recover the kwad, but i had to pack all my other stuff to get there but never found it in the tall grown field (about 2m high wheat or something). I searched 3h that day and the weekend 2x 4h on sat & sun (16h about 1h with my gopro facing down and watching my 3,5" LCD). I wish i had a beeper connected or something like that.

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Mario Wessolleck

said almost 5 years ago

Hallo Habe öfter schon gesucht und fiel finden können mit denn DVR ! Es müsse immer ein Backup mit laufen, auch wenn man vergessen hat das dvr zu starten!

Jack Kimble

said almost 5 years ago

I, very fortunately, haven't lost a quad yet due to being physically unable to find it. I have only crashed quads and broken them.

I do run buzzers on as many quads as I can and esc beepers on those that I can't.

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Lutz

said almost 5 years ago

could this by any chance be related to the pic in this thread? :D

I run buzzers with their own little lipo on my freestyle rigs, so even if the battery gets ejected I will at least have it buzzing. I also log GPS coordinates to my Radio as a last resort.

On my racers I just rely on Dshot beeping.

So far I have been able to retrieve every quad. But I fear the day when this will not be possible.