A normal day out flying turned out to be an epic fail, thanks to DJI Naza and GPS AND a low voltage alarm the RC drone flew itself back home automatically after all hope was lost!
If it wasn’t for a £2.99 Low voltage alarm we never would have heard the quadcopter return and would have left after giving up hope of seeing it again!
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Mate that is enough to give me nightmares so glad for you it came home.
GPS is unaffected by clouds. That is why it is at 1.2 GHz.
+Dennis Ray Wingo normally not because of the clouds, just a dead sopt in
the gps.
No such thing with the full constellation in place.
+Dennis Ray Wingo it uses satalite. if you have aftermarket gps parts they
pickup satalites wquicker and have a quicker thinking time with faster info
displayed so instead of info being received every 2 secs it could be as
quick as 50 ms
The most dramatic ending since Rocky.
I got green smoke! green smoke! ABORT! ABORT!………lets see who gets it
+ChevyShortBus “My wife was the prom queen”
Scene from the rock with Nicholas cage
Just they are about to get blown to smithereens
That is awesome shit… It looks like I need to upgrade to a Quad with
“GPS and a return home button” bahahaha!! Good Shit!
Cool story!!!
Don’t fly GPS you never get a fly away on Manu mode iv got a Dji phantom
never use the GPS
Also have a hk 450 and a hk 330 all both manual
Stay lucky
Brian
+brian forward And you can’t fly it that far away from you either. If you
go high you need GPS because you can’t see the orientation at all.
+sevenrats that is why you fly fpv.
+Aeroworks540 with a osd of course
OSD now your talking or an LCD screen .
Brian
new WLToys ($288 here –
) has the feature Return To Home (RTH) anda it actually works.
Can someone please tell me what the benefits of having GPS in a quad are?
I’m pretty new to do this, so excuse the question I’m sure everyone knows
the answer to. I know that it’s useful for keeping a steady and stable
position, and return-to-home in emergency situations, but what else? None
of those are even necessary, yet it’s still incorporated on almost every
quadcopter I see, raising the price when it doesn’t need to (as far as I
know). As far as I can see, if you’re careful enough to not let it fly
away and are a good enough pilot to keep a position, there’s no need for
it. I’m sure I’m wrong though, which is why I’m asking.
+Ruudy leek know the cheapest osd with rth built in for gliders?been using
osds with all the norm but no rth or any autopilot. im on a tight budget
I am on a tight budget also, that is why I am so upset with losing my Quad
best i can find for airplanes is the cyclops storm but there excact clones
too and i cant tell the difference
My quad has a Ardupilot APM2.6, UBLOX GPS and Minim OSD. All for around
£45. You then need to get the data. The OSD is only any good if you have
FPV. If you just want data, fit a 3DR Telemetry Module £20. In the case of
this video, the GPS was failing, If it had not come back, then all this is
pointless. I now have a TK102 GPS / GSM tracker (£15) on board. It has its
own GPS. It needs a mobile network to function, so be sure to use a
provider that has good coverage in your area. Also, be sure to crash test
the tracker, its pointless if it falls apart on crash landing. I found some
very poor assembly and weak solder joints inside. All of the above can be
found on ebay.
in aus dollars thats around $100 for me but its the space it uses for in a
bix 2 in the fuse. gave up having my video tx and other gear externally cos
it messed with aerodynamics a fair bit and windy days it was hard to fly
back due to the resistance from cloverleafs
Thats just cool
if it was not for the GPS you would of lost it good flight..
Truly an experience of a lifetime, did you enjoy the ultimate adrenaline
rush when you get your quadcopter back ;-)
Save of the day
so many people “lose” these things… and say it like it was just an
verpriced helium balloon. I wounder what they’ll say when one of then
lands on their car or better yet on their head.
+Aeroworks540 it doesnt matter. most people don’t understand the
consequenses of what they are doing. even if you think are “safe”. it is
a calculation of how high, for how long, speed and range for any particular
model that most people don’t consider. These drones can go on in zombie
mode for hours (miles and miles) and some have better safety features than
others. I hope the government implements an ID and registration plan for
long range drones that includes insurance requirements and really steep
fines for negligent use.
hours? no try minuets second from over 200 feet it has already hit max fall
speed. and even if the government implements something just like guns it is
not the person who obeys the laws that f’s it up.
well… no not like guns. it is very hard to find the smoking gun when all
you have is the bullet. This is more like motor vehicles. you may not
obey the law, but a drone large enough to crash and damage your property
should be identifiable and registered to a person whom, if dumb enough to
not insure it, should be personally liable legally. that’s what I am
saying.
…and yes, drones will go in zombie mode for many miles… and yes,
most civilian drone users can’t tell you how far and thus, are not capable
of making a tangible determination of whether they operation “safely” AND
yes, drones will only increase in capabilties, and thus range, size range,
battery time… etc so regulation is required.
wow, I am a Rc drone pilot and I have yet to have this problem. most of the
blackouts were on the phantom 2 and are not common. Finally seeing that
most have a flight time under 15 min at half throttle you would be lucky to
get a mile
Brotip: add simple relay which will pop if battery voltage drops
dramatically and it then releases parachute.
Haha what an awesome video! Awesome save there by the GPS and then you
guiding it back down.. great video! :D
I can see your point about going distance flying that’s were fpv with head
tracking comes in .
Personally as I said I only fly manual and if I do distance then I go fpv
.although all that’s going to change I think with rules and red tape and
its only going to be LINE OF SIGHT flying .
So enjoy what ever your into whilst you can
Brian
i have been hearing that for years. Besides, even if the red tape does come
out, do you think any of us will stop?
Thats when the “fly and run” flying sessions will have to come into play
another Apollo 11 landing on the moon
Yes that was so lucky , well done:)
Now that is timing
lol great video….funny as well
but knowing you hit rth, someone should have stayed there just incase….I
bet if that happens again you will hesitate to leave your home position
Wow! I really enjoyed this video 🙂 keep it up
I really wish I had thought of this for my Sky Rover Stalker, I had this
cool blue one, but I didn’t know that infrared wouldn’t work with wind, or
outside because I realized it’s only meant for indoor play, and the wind
going 17mph didn’t help either. It went fucking southeast of my house, and
it may be up to 2(+?) miles away. And it’s a tiny thing too, I don’t want
to get another blue one just yet, hoping someone will find it. Yes I know,
I shouldn’t have flown the thing outside, but I didn’t think that my
controller would stop responding, and I’m gonna guess that if I also hadn’t
turned the thing off, that might’ve helped at least a little bit, but I
didn’t really know that if you turned it off, or the copter got out of
range, that it would continue its last action. Yeah, next outside one is
definitely going to be radio controlled.
+Sonicfan1661 infrared doesnt work with sunlight. the sun emits strong ir
light alongside white colour and uv. go for a 2.4ghz or a digital radio and
you will have long distances of 300 meters+ and with a antenna mod 1-1.5 km
depending on remotes stock signal strenght x the aftermarket antennas
strength
Might try that. Might attach a camera of some type too.
FANTASTIC JOB!!! This is so good to see and have under my belt in case of
emergency. Thanks for sharing this! I just purchased a Yuneec Q500 and
would hate to lose it.
Well that certainly had a PUKKA factor .call me a Dinosaur but to me GPS
isn’t real flying a monkey could do it THATS GOING TO UP SET QUITE A FEW
PEOPLE .but to me if your not on ati or manual then your never going to
improve your flying skills.BUT IM REALY GLAD YOUR QUAD CAME HOME .
HAPPY TRAILS
Brian
London
Don’t rely on GPS ever!
+Ruudy leek then get lost from distances or high alts. the gps was possibly
set to a certain location and was not set to “set home where power was
applied” so many people forget to change this setting on gps autopilots for
fpv
The Blade 350QX sets home lock when you start the motors, if you are in GPS
mode.
A tear in my eye…
Love the way you put the video together. Kept everything exciting and I’m
glad your expensive drone made it back!
Learned this today…..got my drone back….had to climb on top of my house to get it
Naza it`s naza 🙂 Fly away for no reason
I drove my heli and then it randomly flew away and now it’s gone forever 🙁
Very lucky to get that back! It looked and sounded very windy, at one point the quad was at 45 degrees just hovering maintsining its position. As you went higher the wind speed will increase it looked like that could have caused the drifting maybe?
Hope you learn’t a big lesson from that, can’t understand why people fly so high, rules state 120m line of site in NZ, when I fly my U580 I have FPV and OSD but never fly out of site and never over buildings or people and it is a known fact that cloud is not a good time to fly with GPS, you were very lucky indeed.
the epic fail was behind the sticks
I can’t believe that free fall worked. I wouldnt think it would regain stability
IF you MUST break the law and fly that high, then PLEASE fit a strobe… Be careful the pulses don’t affect your other electronics, (add a toroid if you aren’t sure) but do it. Give the light aircraft, microlights, helicopters and gliders half a chance to see the damn thing at least whilst you are having your illegal “fun”. Goes for all of you out there who are unable to fly below the 450 feet that most aviation safety agencies recommend. Fit a strobe. Also for night flying, (who doesn’t?) red on the left, and green on the right, makes it much easier to fly when you get used to it, and it’s what the “real” aircraft do.