A couple times a year I go to Mayne Island to do some photography and drone work for a client. It's such a beautiful place with a small friendly community. After the job, I took the opportunity to explore the cliffs, acres of forest land, and then finally the ocean. Unfortunately it wasn't such a picture perfect day. As I flew out to sea, I got way to confident exploring the ocean front properties. I went out farther than I thought and lost line of sight as I unknowingly went behind a hill of dense trees. My goggle signal dropped from almost full to instantly 0 freezing the screen. I quickly tried to boost some throttle and hit the GPS RTH button but after waiting 5 minutes the quad did not come home. I was totally thinking it might have tumbled into the ocean, but my transmitter said otherwise. It was still connected but drone was not moving and stuck at an altitude of 30 meters. I disarmed and thought there was still hope. I decided to go search for it even if it meant trespassing one of these ocean front properties or missing my ferry ride home. I looked at where I last crashed through the DVR of the goggles and also by checking satellite view of google maps, I guesstimated and drove to the closest street to the crash site. In a way I could have also looked at the longitude and latitude of the DVR to get a good estimate on where the quad crashed last too. As I got out of the car, the transmitter light turned green and reconnected to the drone! I then turned on the buzzer and used a widget in my TBS Tango 2 where it displayed a hotter or colder signal bar, where as I walk closer to the quad, the signal bar would go up. If I walked farther away, it would go down. Finally I was getting closer to the drone and as I walked to it I can hear people close to it talking and wondering what the buzzing alarm sound was coming from. I approached cautiously to not scare them and apologized for trespassing. They were so kind and helped point out where they thought the drone was. Thankfully it was on some soil between two trees waiting for me barely with a scratch on it.
If you read this far, this is what you do next time. While flying, instead of hovering your finger over GPS RTH, hover it over angle mode, and once you lose signal, quickly flick to angle mode and give a nice throttle boost to climb and get your signal back, if not, then proceed to hit GPS RTH. In BF, also in your failsafe settings, don't forget to set your initial altitude to something higher, like 100m. Mine was default, set at 30m. So it flew home at 30 meters and crashed into a tree coming home! If I set it to 100 it would have cleared everything and come back to me just fine. If you are interested, check out the video below:
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