Hey, I want to thank everyone who has offered well wishes, advice and help. I searched again this morning for a couple hours, I really checked the flight path thoroughly, again no luck. I don't think I will continue looking, and I don't think the drone went down on the flight path.
No indication of the drone's owner, but I had forgot to replace the memory card in the camera and borrowed the one from my phone, so I lost that too, but there was nothing too important there. My Dad knew one of the locals and they'll let us know if it turns up, though I think it's hiding really well and will likely get harvested with some soybeans.
@Just Mark and everyone who has been judgmental, yes I flew above 400 feet. I've never been real good at following rules even when I would benefit from doing so, and while I'm sure you mean well and you yourself are a paragon of ultimate virtue I don't appreciate your attitude or your comments on my video, but you're welcome to your opinion. I will say your comments on my driving are really out of line. Had I not been focused on driving safely I'm pretty sure I would have found my drone. I would have slammed on the breaks and pulled off the road when I noticed a change on the screen of my phone out of the corner of my eye, but instead I continued safely until I found a place to pull off the road and let the person behind me pass. Regardless I obviously regret my negligence and poor flying that day.
In my defense, I had no intention of flying above 400 feet that morning, this was a very spur of the moment flight, no planning, just quickly drove out to this lake to catch the sunrise. I was climbing and around maybe 200 feet, I stopped looking and was checking out the sunrise and I checked again and I was at 1000 feet. That's when I tried to return and realized I couldn't. It took me a few minutes to reach the conclusion that wind conditions were totally different up there then they were where I was. Dumb I know and I paid the price.
When I lost the drone I immediately said I was done, no more drones. The next day I caught myself checking drone videos on youtube. The day after that I was on banggood looking for another model. When I bought my P3 I moved up from a Hubsan X4 which was my first drone, and one I've since sold. I had almost went a different direction and bought a racing quad. A couple days ago I ordered a Eachine Wizard and plan on actually learning to fly quads. Tonight I ordered one of those little mini FPV quads with 5.8G goggles to fly around the house and practice.
With the freestyle quad I'll have to force myself to be a bit more disciplined and keep it closer to me and closer to the ground which is a good thing.
One question, can anybody recommend a tracking solution for drones like "tile," do those work?
Again, thanks for the help!
