Lost drone

kave2

Lost my drone Tuesday evening, XK X380 in Roscam, end of Boireann Bheag area and possibly the fields. I'll give reward if found. Here is picture of it

thesandeman

Again? Are you sure it's not a homing pigeon you bought?

Sorry, couldn't resist.

biko

As drones get more popular I suppose we'll see more threads like this.

kave2

thesandeman wrote: »

Again? Are you sure it's not a homing pigeon you bought?

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Not funny at all.

biko

biko wrote: »

As drones get more popular I suppose we'll see more threads like this.

Never been a fan of lost and found threads on here tbh.... Chances of someone finding it and skipping the usual options(guard station) are remote.

Hope you find it anyway OP, my rant above isn't about your thread per se.

Casshern88

kave2 wrote: »

Lost my drone Tuesday evening, XK X380 in Roscam, end of Boireann Bheag area and possibly the fields. I'll give reward if found. Here is picture of it

not being funny, but dont some models have a feature where if they go out of range / battery reaches a certain level they will automatically return to a pre defined base area.... obviously i presume your doesn't have this?

Casshern88

Casshern88 wrote: »

not being funny, but dont some models have a feature where if they go out of range / battery reaches a certain level they will automatically return to a pre defined base area.... obviously i presume your doesn't have this?

I think they all have that feature, but if you crash land, you're in trouble. (ie; if it lands on it's side or upside down or such, it can't take off again).

Yardleys Lavender

If you keep loosing it and it doesn't have GPS, you should consider sticking a Tile on it so at least you have some hope of finding it.

gozunda

kave2 wrote: »

Lost my drone Tuesday evening, XK X380 in Roscam, end of Boireann Bheag area and possibly the fields. I'll give reward if found. ...

Have you made contact with landowners / farmers in the area?

Atlantic Dawn

Hope you find it. Too late now but labelling them with a mobile number is a good idea.

kave2

It does have GPS, it was coming back where it took off from(rth function) and around 20m from that spot it changed it's mind. I found it few minutes later hovering over the near by houses. Try to regain control, but wasn't able to and few minutes later seen it going down.

Talked to all house residents, searched the field for last 2 days.
Unfortunately I didn't have my name and number on it.

Lissavane

kave2 wrote: »

It does have GPS, it was coming back where it took off from(rth function) and around 20m from that spot it changed it's mind. I found it few minutes later hovering over the near by houses. Try to regain control, but wasn't able to and few minutes later seen it going down.

Talked to all house residents, searched the field for last 2 days.
Unfortunately I didn't have my name and number on it.

I hope you get it back. If it was flying over houses, you're lucky it didn't cause damage to people or property when it fell, or that, if one of those householders found it, they didn't make a false accusation of injury / damage against you.

I don't want to be a killjoy and I hope to get one myself soon but you need to be careful with them in populated places.

kave2

Lissavane wrote: »

I hope you get it back. If it was flying over houses, you're lucky it didn't cause damage to people or property when it fell, or that, if one of those householders found it, they didn't make a false accusation of injury / damage against you.

I don't want to be a killjoy and I hope to get one myself soon but you need to be careful with them in populated places.

I didn't mean to fly over houses, quad itself flied there. I was flying over the fields. Luckily it didn't injured anyone.
Even if found after all the raining today it's probably ruined by water, so is the camera.

mmmull

Sorry about your drone, kave2.

Do you upload the drone footage to the web somewhere?

kave2

mmmull wrote: »

Sorry about your drone, kave2.

Do you upload the drone footage to the web somewhere?

You tube

mmmull

kave2 wrote: »

You tube

I was hoping for a link

Gadgetman496

mmmull wrote: »

I was hoping for a link

He's as elusive as his drone

kave2

mmmull wrote: »

I was hoping for a link

Hehe. Here you go. I know, not great, only my second video ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC6ojpNGbWg

misstearheus

Do ya reckon it's definitely weather-damaged? Is there any chance someone found it soon after and tried to sell it on or anything?

kave2

misstearheus wrote: »

Do ya reckon it's definitely weather-damaged? Is there any chance someone found it soon after and tried to sell it on or anything?

Depends when they found it. It didn't rain for 3-4 days when it happened. I lost all the hope anyway. Maybe someone kept it just for the camera.

thesandeman

Can it be used by someone else if you have the control thingy?

kave2

thesandeman wrote: »

Can it be used by someone else if you have the control thingy?

Yep, you can buy the controller for 30e.

Sofa King

I would have assumed that Drones would have had some sort of GPS attached to them.

biko

Nah, the basic models don't. You need to splash the cash if you want gps/camers/chainsaw/whatnot

Also, if it's on the main battery it'll stop working when the battery dies.

kave2

Sofa King wrote: »

I would have assumed that Drones would have had some sort of GPS attached to them.

Mine did have GPS, but for some reason drone malfunctioned and didn't return home. The GPS is used just for RTH and obviously flying, there is no tracking for user in case it goes down. Many people are using GPS trackers with it's own battery especially on the more expensive ones.