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- Mar 21, 2020
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I lost my drone recently. Made two flights just after sunset in dry conditions, 5°C, wind about 7-8 m/s at 50m altitude, wind perpendicular to flight direction. First flight went perfect, started with 69% battery charge, flew 7-8 minutes over a river, returned home, landing on the road, about 20% left. I changed the battery (66% full) and took off for the second flight in the same direction, nothing abnormal so far.
About 30 seconds in flight, I got a message that the drone was autolanding, and briefly a warning regarding overheating.
Unfortunately, the drone landed itself out of reach in the reeds of a salt marsh, not recoverable during night time / upcoming flow. There was no logfile of that last flight on my smartphone, possibly due to crash in the reeds / short circuit / distance between drone and smartphone / ...
I contacted Parrot customer service, quick response, but alas: they claim they can't give warranty without the logfile, although I presented them all screenshots, location info, previous logfile, complete detailed report of both flights of that day etc. , while clearly this was a product failure.
Planning to recover the drone now, but must find a way to do this without jeopardizing my life :s
Does it make sense to recover the drone, even if it was submerged already that first night during flow time?
Whatever the outcome, lessons learned: I'll always fly with a screen recorder from now on, to tackle the 'missing logfile' issue...
About 30 seconds in flight, I got a message that the drone was autolanding, and briefly a warning regarding overheating.
Unfortunately, the drone landed itself out of reach in the reeds of a salt marsh, not recoverable during night time / upcoming flow. There was no logfile of that last flight on my smartphone, possibly due to crash in the reeds / short circuit / distance between drone and smartphone / ...
I contacted Parrot customer service, quick response, but alas: they claim they can't give warranty without the logfile, although I presented them all screenshots, location info, previous logfile, complete detailed report of both flights of that day etc. , while clearly this was a product failure.
Planning to recover the drone now, but must find a way to do this without jeopardizing my life :s
Does it make sense to recover the drone, even if it was submerged already that first night during flow time?
Whatever the outcome, lessons learned: I'll always fly with a screen recorder from now on, to tackle the 'missing logfile' issue...