"The Wind blew it Away!"

GustavL · Oct 27, 2014

I must share this with everybody....

I found the following on the Facebook page of my Town, this morning.

" Has anybody seen my husband's drone, the wind blew it away..........."

Does it sound like they even read the manual?

The story ended on a good note. Some boys playing in the road found it a couple of km's down the road at the library. Perhaps the Phantom was on it's way to the library to get it's owner a manual.

Pacific Barbarian · Oct 28, 2014

Re: "The Wind blew it Away!"

Must be windy season!

Built Drones · Oct 28, 2014

May have lost sat signal..

GustavL · Oct 28, 2014

I think he lost GPS signals and the quad went into ATTI mode, and he didn't know what was happening.
Wind was quite strong (about 15miles/h), but with GPS lock the wind can't just blow it away.

IflyinWY · Oct 28, 2014

That's too funny

Maybe she was distracting him with her honey dews and he inadvertently had a finger on the right stick, or flipped a switch.
Then he told her to find it or leave, so she went to facebook.

Happy endings are good.

Think he would be interested in a tracking device? :lol:

gunslinger · Oct 28, 2014

UAV-Outlet said:
May have lost sat signal..

Simple equation...

a=max speed of aircraft
b=wind speed
c=aircraft

if a < b (c= buhbye !!!!)

-slinger

knuckles · Oct 28, 2014

I just watched a video the other day where a guy was testing GPS with 25mph winds maybe. It was really strong steady wind plus strong gusts. The phantom maintained GPS area pretty good even though it was getting knocked around. I think something else happend here besides wind but glad it was recovered

jwegener · Oct 28, 2014

Re: "The Wind blew it Away!"

Yep I flew in 20-25mph winds the other day and it was doable. Only was able to go 10-12 mph into the wind (but faster with ATTI of course)

gunslinger · Oct 28, 2014

I'm just saying... You may know the wind speed at ground level, but you most assuredly don't know the wind speed up over 100, 200 , 300 feet etc...

If your Phantom is capable of 34 MPH and the wind speed is 45 MPH... that might create a bit of an issue...

-slinger