pdmike
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Then you're not paranoid. Focus, Moz, focus ......It really is paranoia & they are really spying.
Little Quad Lost
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Zoe Salinas
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I've seen and had these kind of experiences before, and it is heart breaking. I use extra gps tracking device now and attach it to my drone, and double checking my pre-flight so it won't happen again
Zoe Salinas
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Btw, I use a Trackimo, the device tracker I mentioned commenting here on your thread. You should check it out, I love their features
Rick M
Absent-minded professor
My next FPV racer doesn't have a beeper. This is not a good thing. I'm trying to decide if I want to buy and install a beeper or just stick a Trackimo (or equivalent) on it, and just how accurate that thing will be compared to walking a field and listening for the beeping noise.
mozquito1
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Drones that use GPS RTH normally land back within a couple or feet or meters.
That trackimo thing is too big for an acro quad. The best I've seen is the dronekeeper mini. I've never had a buzzer on a quad & touch wood, I've never lost one either. But once they get some back in stock I'm buying a few.
That trackimo thing is too big for an acro quad. The best I've seen is the dronekeeper mini. I've never had a buzzer on a quad & touch wood, I've never lost one either. But once they get some back in stock I'm buying a few.
Rick M
Absent-minded professor
The times I have used a switched beeper to find a quad, I probably would have found it eventually without the beeper. It's the "probably" that makes me uneasy.
Zoe Salinas
Member
Haha! Good one @KentA
Dago Barb
Member
I have a small Akaso 200 that I lost down in the canyon. It's black and green, stupid colors that don't stand out in bushes. Anyway, it caught a thermal and went down somewhere in the canyon, but the camera was on. There was an upside down image of dry grasses and dirt, so looking at the canyon, one area has pine trees. The middle has native bushes. On the left is a small trail, and the only place that matched the image.
I found it, upside down, on the trail! Whew!
I found it, upside down, on the trail! Whew!
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pdmike
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The owner won't let him go up and get it? Why not?
mozquito1
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His own business & probably being funny. Cops told me once I was casing a joint till I showed him my footage, lucky as normally I'm in the middle of nowhere & can spot anyone for a mile or two. If I go over my height by accident or do any dodgy manoeuvres the SD goes away sharp & fresh one goes on. I was at B&Q carparks when the rozzers sneakily crept up beside me, with a we've had reports it looks like your casing the joint. I laughed & said if I wanted to case the joint as you put it
I would come when it's open,
I hadn't been out for a few weeks & punched out longer than needed, showing off & giving a good view. So I landed after that lipo & swapped sd & was half way through a 128gb. So I said to ol Colombo I been here 40mins or so you can check all my footage. Then got nosey about my kit.
All my short range legal quads, well ones I fly around concrete, tarmac got all the old kit on. The stingy and tweaker are my little cows, they only like grass or the odd sand bunker yes sand bunker. Don't ask but it's still better than water or concrete.
I would come when it's open,
I hadn't been out for a few weeks & punched out longer than needed, showing off & giving a good view. So I landed after that lipo & swapped sd & was half way through a 128gb. So I said to ol Colombo I been here 40mins or so you can check all my footage. Then got nosey about my kit.
All my short range legal quads, well ones I fly around concrete, tarmac got all the old kit on. The stingy and tweaker are my little cows, they only like grass or the odd sand bunker
yes sand bunker. Don't ask but it's still better than water or concrete.