Drone Lost in Mission Viejo

[Meta4]

How can someone have a flyaway ?
Like aircraft, drone accidents or malfunctions are more likely than not pilot error.
What say you?

Flyaway usually just means .. I lost my drone (and don't understand the cause of the incident).
Genuine hardware malfunctions do occur but are very uncommon.
Some of the most common causes of lost Phantoms are:

Poor understanding of how the Phantom is programmed and how to use it, particularly RTH.
Flying off downwind in a wind that is too strong for the Phantom to RTH against it.
Not understanding how winds are stronger at high levels.
Flying behind a building, terrain etc, losing signal and having an RTH height too low to clear any obstacles in the RTH path
Launching from steel surfaces or reinforced concrete (it messes up the compass)
Flying into an area where GPS signal is blocked (a canyon, close to a building etc) and not being familiar with atti mode.​

 

[paulmorel]

Thank you for the Microchip idea, I bought a tracking device for my replacement and stickers with my phone #. I will look on eBay but I doubt If there.

may i ask what kind of tracking device you bought?