Did you read the manual? If so, what was your course of action when it began to fly away from you on its own?
Shh everyone else, interested in seeing his response
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Pressed home a few times, tried to manually drop drone to wherever it was. Lost visuals and that's it. Been searching by walking around area, found nothing. Submitted ticket and says 24 hr response time. Also called and says isn't open until 8a Monday.
Do I just wait to hear from them? Literally first flight and it's gone. Gut is telling me it's long gone:/
Sounds like you lost GPS and it drifted in Manual mode, which is why Home button and pause will not work. Post you log as soon as you can here. Let us take a look at what happened. There are a couple of threads on here about retrieving logs if you need them.Pressed home a few times, tried to manually drop drone to wherever it was. Lost visuals and that's it. Been searching by walking around area, found nothing. Submitted ticket and says 24 hr response time. Also called and says isn't open until 8a Monday.
Do I just wait to hear from them? Literally first flight and it's gone. Gut is telling me it's long gone:/
On the odd chance, was it right side up? any visible damage??Just got on parking garage and found it across street on another bldg! Don't see direct access so will have to wait to contact building maint on Monday I guess.
I do agree, seems a bit ambitious. This is my main argument though...If GPS is lost then it's simply not possible for it to come back home as it no longer knows where home is or where the solo itself is.
Most likely this was due to operator error. Post your logs here and someone can take a look. By now most issues have been ironed out with Solo and there are fail safes in place that you can read about in docs. Sounds like your first flight was a bit ambitious and perhaps maybe some more reading/research could have mitigated the loss.
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GPS disconnects and Solo takes off like a bat out of hell. Does it really matter where I started the flight (in a very open parking garage rooftop, not very close to other buildings)? The demo video on the flight school shows several tall trees in the area, I believe my location was even more open than that.
Let's not be too hard on him, guys.
The biggest thing I see here is our general advice to set Fly:manual mode to your A and/or B buttons. Had he done this, he could have hit the button, regained control, and brought it back.
I think after seeing this one (among others), I'm going to move the button assignment tip to the top of the FAQ.
Adamdrone: I sincerely hope you were able to recover your drone and that it is repairable. Hopefully, you also searched around and found your GoPro as well.
Thanks for the helpful advice/post Erik. You must be a real pro.It's pretty simple. New user ignored warnings about flying around buildings or in a populated area. Ignores advice about flying in an open field (especially for first flight!). Crashes drone on first flight. Can't understand why. Next time you drop over a grand on a new toy read the fking manual.
And yes, it's possible to fly in and among buildings, but with the new rules and all the bad press because of pilots like this, you better a) have permission first, and b) be an experienced pilot, with a properly configured set of parameters, who knows what to do if GPS glitches.
It's pretty simple. New user ignored warnings about flying around buildings or in a populated area. Ignores advice about flying in an open field (especially for first flight!). Crashes drone on first flight. Can't understand why. Next time you drop over a grand on a new toy read the fking manual.
And yes, it's possible to fly in and among buildings, but with the new rules and all the bad press because of pilots like this, you better a) have permission first, and b) be an experienced pilot, with a properly configured set of parameters, who knows what to do if GPS glitches.
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