Last sunday I went flying on Busloo (recreational area in the Netherlands) on waypoints. After a few minutes I suddenly lost connection. I was not worried because it did happen before and then just did come home. But after 15 minutes I was starting to worry, cause now it definitely should be back.
So I waited for another 10 minutes and realized that I would probably never see my P3A again. I was with my brother and we took the car and drove to latest gps position. Started looking in this area but all water and trees. We decided to go home.
Next day I posted on Facebook that I lost my drone and asked people to share the message. I also put a reward of €200,00 on returning it. So yesterday night I received a message from a guy I know via Policed training and he told me a friend of him who is also training Policedogs has found it. I just thought he was kidding of course but he told me he was not. So he gave me the phone number of his friend and I called her.
She told me it crashed in her garden and saw on Facebook that a friend of her shared my message. I drove to her house and it was there! I took out the SD card and checked images to confirm it was mine. It was.
The damage? Just one broken prop and a broken cable from I think compass (little grey cable to a part that is numbered 3 in the landing gear. So I replaced all the props (still the first) and took the bird out for a very short flight. It was working. Today I have cleaned the P3A, replaced the cable and overall status is ok. And I did a IMU calibration, just to be sure.
Video is here:
So I waited for another 10 minutes and realized that I would probably never see my P3A again. I was with my brother and we took the car and drove to latest gps position. Started looking in this area but all water and trees. We decided to go home.
Next day I posted on Facebook that I lost my drone and asked people to share the message. I also put a reward of €200,00 on returning it. So yesterday night I received a message from a guy I know via Policed training and he told me a friend of him who is also training Policedogs has found it. I just thought he was kidding of course but he told me he was not. So he gave me the phone number of his friend and I called her.
She told me it crashed in her garden and saw on Facebook that a friend of her shared my message. I drove to her house and it was there! I took out the SD card and checked images to confirm it was mine. It was.
The damage? Just one broken prop and a broken cable from I think compass (little grey cable to a part that is numbered 3 in the landing gear. So I replaced all the props (still the first) and took the bird out for a very short flight. It was working. Today I have cleaned the P3A, replaced the cable and overall status is ok. And I did a IMU calibration, just to be sure.
Video is here:
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