Drone lost in the long pasture.

magatoVolador · Feb 6, 2018

Hello friends,

Sadly I've to tell you that today I lost my 3DR drone, I was flying and made a bad maneuver and fell, the problem is that it was on a very long and leafy pasture, and I was around 2 or 3 hours walking through the sector without achieving find it, and I really think that it'll be very difficult for it to do it since in the place there is really too much and long grass about 2 meters high.
Does anyone know what can be done in this case? Is there any way to get the latest GPS position of the drone?

Well friends, any advice will be very helpful.

Thank you very much

Saijin_Naib · Feb 6, 2018

This is my favorite way:
System Logs | 3DR Solo Development Guide

I use Token2Shell/MD on Windows 10/Mobile, however. Same concept though.

IrishmanPDX · Feb 6, 2018

It's a pity you lost your solo in the long grass, otherwise you could use it to fly about the long grass to look for the solo ..... ohhhh... that's one of them pair-o-ducks things, isn't it....

jimloss · Feb 6, 2018

magatoVolador said:
Hello friends,

Sadly I've to tell you that today I lost my 3DR drone, I was flying and made a bad maneuver and fell, the problem is that it was on a very long and leafy pasture, and I was around 2 or 3 hours walking through the sector without achieving find it, and I really think that it'll be very difficult for it to do it since in the place there is really too much and long grass about 2 meters high.
Does anyone know what can be done in this case? Is there any way to get the latest GPS position of the drone?

Well friends, any advice will be very helpful.

Thank you very much

If you use Solex it can show you the location.

Otherwise, download the solo tlog files from your controller and use an application such as Mission Planner to see where the flight path ends.

JBAlaska · Feb 7, 2018

Don't give up hope! And when you find it, you'll really want to get a Navigation Strobe. It really lowers the "pucker factor" when your way out of sight of your main gimbal bird, you can clearly see the strobe!
Good luck and keep us posted [emoji94]

richnat · Feb 7, 2018

While it was still on doesn't the Solo app or Solex show the altitude and distance from the controller? Theoretically, if you walked toward the Solo wouldn't the distance get smaller and smaller until you got close enough to locate it? Or does the controller only measure those distances from where the Solo originally took off from?