Flying the Solo today. This is unbelievable...
it was close to the edge of the radio range (~700m), all of a sudden the controller said "Fly:Manual"....then almost immediately it said "LAND"!!!!!
Then the controller lost Solo, and the iPhone display froze with the last freeze frame of the video feed.
I waited a minute or two thinking it might RTH, but no sign of it.
Hopped in the car, drove to where I thought it would be.
Somehow reconnected to Solo, video feed showed blades of grass (in the proper orientation, not flipped!)
I swiped the screen to see the map, saw a GPS location....it showed close by!!!
I got out on foot, using the map to see the Solo and my position....FOUND IT!!
It was amazing, it somehow missed a bunch of trees and landed on a small grassy patch.
Looking at the Gopro footage, a couple things...
1--At the point I lost connection to Solo, the GoPro video shows it tilt forward pretty massively, and it started beeping like crazy.
2--After the beeping and disconnection from the controller (remember, it said "Fly:Manual....LAND"), Solo kept going forward, but descending.
3--It was moving right towards a bunch of trees...but it jogged left, then right. it went around the trees!!!
The only issue was that it clipped on tiny stick with one of the props, didn't interfere with the flight at all. It landed on a perfect spot.
NOTE 1: when I found it, the Solo battery light was still on, and with plenty of bars. I was connected via the controller. However, the GoPro had solid red LED indicator and had stopped recording (it got to about 10 minutes). The video shown on the iPhone may have been frozen, I didn't pay attention when I picked it up. the card had plenty of memory left. I had to pull the GoPro battery, then it said "repairing file" after I rebooted the GoPro.
NOTE 2: you'll see from my other posts that I had a SPOT Trace on top of the battery (it is a satellite based tracking system). The only thing I can think is that the SPOT started transmitting and messed with Solo.
Any ideas????
it was close to the edge of the radio range (~700m), all of a sudden the controller said "Fly:Manual"....then almost immediately it said "LAND"!!!!!
Then the controller lost Solo, and the iPhone display froze with the last freeze frame of the video feed.
I waited a minute or two thinking it might RTH, but no sign of it.
Hopped in the car, drove to where I thought it would be.
Somehow reconnected to Solo, video feed showed blades of grass (in the proper orientation, not flipped!)
I swiped the screen to see the map, saw a GPS location....it showed close by!!!
I got out on foot, using the map to see the Solo and my position....FOUND IT!!
It was amazing, it somehow missed a bunch of trees and landed on a small grassy patch.
Looking at the Gopro footage, a couple things...
1--At the point I lost connection to Solo, the GoPro video shows it tilt forward pretty massively, and it started beeping like crazy.
2--After the beeping and disconnection from the controller (remember, it said "Fly:Manual....LAND"), Solo kept going forward, but descending.
3--It was moving right towards a bunch of trees...but it jogged left, then right. it went around the trees!!!
The only issue was that it clipped on tiny stick with one of the props, didn't interfere with the flight at all. It landed on a perfect spot.
NOTE 1: when I found it, the Solo battery light was still on, and with plenty of bars. I was connected via the controller. However, the GoPro had solid red LED indicator and had stopped recording (it got to about 10 minutes). The video shown on the iPhone may have been frozen, I didn't pay attention when I picked it up. the card had plenty of memory left. I had to pull the GoPro battery, then it said "repairing file" after I rebooted the GoPro.
NOTE 2: you'll see from my other posts that I had a SPOT Trace on top of the battery (it is a satellite based tracking system). The only thing I can think is that the SPOT started transmitting and messed with Solo.
Any ideas????