Had a few moments of down time at work today so I got the Solo out for a quick flight around the firehall. I think my first sign should've been it took quite a while to get more than 9 satellites ( and that's with the mRo!!) ...finally it grabbed 11 and was ready to go! I got her fired up and off the ground took her up to around 120ft flew over a neighboring construction site that has a tower crane . Flew it right up to the crane all was good I was getting low in battery so I hit return home then quickly remembered the power lines on the way back so I quickly hit A for manual and tried to take control back but it started out the opposite way away from me and would not take commands from the controller and was last seen heading over city hall towards the river and Nissan Stadium. All of us guys at the firehall got in the equipment (engine ,rescue, truck, ambulance) and drove around looking for it, even set up the truck ladder to get on top of roof at city hall( it's last known location before the video feed stopped )....SO Bummed, I just did the mRo and R11e cards along with maddogs Brite Lite mod [emoji37]
I'm just sick about it!! Mainly for the GoPro and gimbal being gone but mostly the fact that I'm trying to get my department's drone program started and this is a huge setback...
Anyways I'm still in shock , I'll give it a few days to set in then try to find another Solo.... just sucks because I was getting decent at piloting the Solo, and started to get the guys interested in the program. One of the fellas was just asking me earlier in the day about my solo and if he should get one and I was totally selling him on it!! ... now he's not so sure... I'm still a believer and will still propose to my department to by some for the program fleet. Anyways just had to vent to the proper crowd. Thanks for listening!
Best regards,
Richard
I'm just sick about it!! Mainly for the GoPro and gimbal being gone but mostly the fact that I'm trying to get my department's drone program started and this is a huge setback...
Anyways I'm still in shock , I'll give it a few days to set in then try to find another Solo.... just sucks because I was getting decent at piloting the Solo, and started to get the guys interested in the program. One of the fellas was just asking me earlier in the day about my solo and if he should get one and I was totally selling him on it!! ... now he's not so sure... I'm still a believer and will still propose to my department to by some for the program fleet. Anyways just had to vent to the proper crowd. Thanks for listening!
Best regards,
Richard