I sure do wish I could see the lat/long position of the Anafi itself in realtime on my screen. If you have a crash, even with VLOS, in a moment of inattention, a json file is not always generated in the FreeFlight controller. Stuff happens fast. Contact between controller and drone are lost, which means you either;
1. possibly lose the drone, or
2. If you had a screen recorder running at the time, you will at least have the distance between the controller and the drone. With this, you can use Google Earth or something similar, to mark your controller position, and then draw a circle with that as the center, using the distance (radius). Then, on the arc of about where you think the drone was last time it was seen, use the Google Earth /tools/path to move along at approximately 100' segments left/right as a reality check, using the lat/long for each point on the path to aid in your field search.
3. Other options I've not thought of. Maybe some of you have a different method?
I've used this method a couple of times with success. However, even some cheaper drones display the realtime positioning, so I don't see why Parrot couldn't do this. I'd be willing to lose a little screen real estate for this. Another way might be to allow the transmission of the json file within milliseconds of a catastrophic event, on the way down, that immediately get sent back to the FF6. However, if the crash happens before it gets sent, all bets might be off, especially if the battery is ejected...
Dan
1. possibly lose the drone, or
2. If you had a screen recorder running at the time, you will at least have the distance between the controller and the drone. With this, you can use Google Earth or something similar, to mark your controller position, and then draw a circle with that as the center, using the distance (radius). Then, on the arc of about where you think the drone was last time it was seen, use the Google Earth /tools/path to move along at approximately 100' segments left/right as a reality check, using the lat/long for each point on the path to aid in your field search.
3. Other options I've not thought of. Maybe some of you have a different method?
I've used this method a couple of times with success. However, even some cheaper drones display the realtime positioning, so I don't see why Parrot couldn't do this. I'd be willing to lose a little screen real estate for this. Another way might be to allow the transmission of the json file within milliseconds of a catastrophic event, on the way down, that immediately get sent back to the FF6. However, if the crash happens before it gets sent, all bets might be off, especially if the battery is ejected...
Dan