Even with GPS Rescue, it is essential that you create a widget on your radio that constantly displays your G-Code or basically your latitude and longitude. Even with a downed bird, you can take a picture of the values on your radio screen and then use a GPS compass app on your phone to bring you literally within 5-10 feet of the drones physical location. This is all assuming that you still maintain telemetry with the drone during the crash so the values update and are correct. This would have made your search effortless.
Same happened to me with my Helion @4miles out and '5000 up a mountain. Complete blackout for 10:36. I got lucky and got video back and was able to land safely. Since then I have changed my antenna setup to a split-V and it makes a world of difference.
I (and likely many others) would be grateful if you could provide more information on how to create such a widget and the steps to activate the widget on the RM TX16s, Boxer, Pocket or other common radios. I tried a UA-cam search and only found a few (created years ago) but the instructions were not very clear.
How could I live without Craglord and the mighty Helion 10 😂 Shit, I was ready to raise funds and ship you mine from Whistler B.C. May the Crag be with you. Beeper with own battery ? Tile is fantastic ! #WhistlerSearch&Rescue Addictive isn't it. Rewarding !
@PixelRacer64 hahah thanks man! I'm subbed to you, I want to go to BC in the summer and I'll need crag guides! Beeper with its own batt is a good investment and also setting up gps on controller would have been a huge help.
Use the radio link telemetry to add the sensors to your radio. One of the sensors will be the GPS coordinates. So, if that ever happens again, you can see the actual coordinates of the drone on your radio screen. It'll make finding it MUCH easier to have a starting point to head to.
@@tmofpvif you use edge tx, go to model setting, telemetry display, and scroll until you select gps telemetry to be displayed. It will even retain last position even if your rc link break
Glad you managed to recover it. Great shots. I would avoid using max altitude on GPS rescue when you're mountain cruising and diving. Its a massive waste of battery. Seeing as you cant fly behind the mountain and you're always in line of sight current alt is fine. Great shots!
This is why I wish for a hybrid vtx that can switch to analogue for situations like this (activate in rescue mode), as nice as digital is, the reconnect after signal loss problem needs a solution, freeze with no reconnect or the dreaded rainbow screen is a nightmare, glad you put in the retrieval effort. I was smiling as soon as you found it, great job. Bigfoot gutted, no free drone today. 👍👍👍👍👍👍
@@CRAGLORDTbh I dont think an seperate vtx of analog weigh anything. I do know about folks who have angle and gps setup that the analog vtx goes into full power.
That shows your love for FPV hobby, you never gave up and I am very glad you recovered your drone, that’s my dream drone Congratulations to you brother
@@raafatelnakib4236 thank you sir! I do love this drone, it's so fun to fly.... But I can't recommend the helion unfortunately. It's had way too many problems and jello issues
@@CRAGLORDoh really? Thank you so much for the information on the Helion I have always been admiring this drone and wanted to get it but I will listen to your advise Sir.
I second the script writing the GPS coordinates to the radio logs. Haven't had to use it yet thankfully but it brings comfort. Glad you didn't lose two drones and your phone 😁
Got this video randomly recommended, and I'm happy to watch it. Glad you get your Helion back! The first minutes where intense. Keep up the good work mate, but without the loss. Greetings from germany.
situations like this make it so necessary to spent some time to get the correct gps rescue settings. these have to fit to your quad and the location you fly. never trust pre installed things. and do several checks in short distances before you do Longrange
Ah yes, saved by a tile lol. I had mentioned these in the Facebook group and people said “it wouldn’t work” yet here you just saved a quad. Congrats :)
That’s wild. Super glad you found it though. My favorite time of day here in Alaska is just after sunrise and just before sunset because I love the way the purple mountains look. I love your crazy adventures but I also appreciate the killer videos you get. Good stuff buddy
At this point, when you said "I'm scared," my knees started shaking too, just like I do before a flight. I recently repaired the crossfire antenna on my remote control, and found that it had been torn off for a long time. And at the same time, I was climbing 4-5 km behind the clouds. And now I'm even afraid to imagine that I didn't know about it then.
@@CRAGLORD at 1-1.5 km from me, I heard "telemetry lost", but the drone continued to be controlled. I then thought that the signal was blocked by my friend sitting on the side. And this video is just on my channel, a recent one.
Your flight and recovery was spectacular. I appreciate you sharing with us how you recorded the sun and the moon in the same sky, showing how imense and flat this plane called Earth is! Keep flying. Are you flying Lipo or Lithium packs?
Nice vid i subscribed to you you gonna watch more now. I have two questions: I guess youre using o3 how can you get so much more range than other people using o3? Also which antennas are you using on your goggles? I have also goggles 2 and im thinking about changing antennas
@cinematicfpv31 thanks dude! Check out my long range helion review vid I talk a bit more about that. But I use the true rc patch antennas and I turn the 03 quality down to 1080p, I feel that helps cause it's less data to transmit and I'm using a action camera anyway....
Congratulations for recovering it. This is a good lesson on why to enable EdgeTx logging, or even just a GPS Lua script, which would have allowed you to find it in minutes rather than days
I (and likely many others) would be grateful if you could provide more information on how to create such a LUA script and the steps to activate the widget on the RM TX16s, Boxer, Pocket or other common radios. I tried a UA-cam search and what I found lacked clear instructions.
@@jc.cantrell Hi, Oscar Liang has written a guide entitled "How to Log Telemetry Data in EdgeTX". You can use this to write GPS coordinates and other telemetry fields to SD card every second while a model is armed. This is IMO essential for long range flying, especially with digital video links like DJI with quirks in regard to reconnecting after signal loss. I believe EdgeTX ships with a basic GPS Lua script showing last known position which can be setup as a telemetry screen. It's also worth setting up telemetry screens so that you know what your quad is doing in the unfortunate event of video loss (velocity, altitude etc).
@@meotyda well it wasn't visually damaged, but I replaced that one wire and all the sudden it's working again. It's a very thin wire so I just assume it got too much current and fried inside
@@CRAGLORD wow, that's strange. did you built this helion yourself, or it's BNF? In other words, maybe you do not fully plug the connector? Or is it a factory mistake?
The only thing better than this amazing story is the beautiful footage you retrieved. Thanks for sharing! I'm looking forward to the next rescue mission.
Haha thank you! Unfortunately it just snowed yesterday so the next rescue mission is impossible now☠. I have two other rescue videos up "mt doom" if you enjoy that stuff!
Glad you got it back! That was nerve wracking! How are you going to address the video signal loss next time? I'm currently working on a helical antenna. I'm just worried that the beam might not be wide and I may forgot and start enjoying the view as I cruise outside of the beam.
@@neilfpv I tracked down the issue to a bad wire and everything is working fine now. If you are using goggles 2, remember they have 2 internal antennas as well that are omni directional. So you should still get decent connection even when outside the beam🤘
@@LenZFPV eh I can't recommend the helion unfortunately. Had a ton of issues with it (hence this video haha) but mostly jello stuff. I will say when it works it's a ton of fun to fly it
Братишка , понимаю твои чувства , тоже терял дрон и долго искал его, и нашел его через 3 месяца. И он был цел , заменил 1 мотор и снова летал. Теперь настроил отображение координат на аппаратуру .
Good job on finding it 💪 I don't want to think about that happening to me 😅 I saw you are using a magnetic DJI mount and I have some jello and can't fix it, any tips?
Now are you going to set your RTH to current altitude? That has always made the most sense to me if you are flying up into the mountains. Then, no matter whether you're flying out or returning it just climbs the prescribed meters then heads home. PS - It shows that you enjoy the edit process.
@@willennsart8955 thx man! I definitely gonna be messing with the RTH settings. I'm afraid to do current altitude, cause if I go behind a peak on accident. I don't want the drone to turn around and run into the backside, I want it to climb and reconnect ideally!
@@CRAGLORD So what's wrong with setting the innitial climbout to say, 50m? In the event of a failsafe or RTH, it climbs 50m above current alt and returns. Had yours been set that way you would not have gone hunting, I think. I mean, how often do you fly behind a huge obstacle at a distance and expect to get your drone back? To me, the only time it makes sense to set it to max alt is when you are flying down from a higher launch. But maybe that's just me...
@@jimlwolfe-empty-midwest it's a great backup, but just know it's worthless until you get within 30 feet or so and connect via Bluetooth. It doesn't broadcast its own location
A slightly less dramatic version of this happened to me which lead to me setting up the GPS coordinates link on the controller. Should just be an automatic link but thats how I discovered it wasnt. Lead to me walking around in a farmers field at night with a torch & couldnt make contact to tell the farmer I was just looking for a drone. All ended well but know that feeling
At least you know not to stuff around so much now, if you've got visual LOS it straight away even if it's sketchy. Angle mode helps a lot here. Great vid anyways 👍
@@kingjam6433 yea I've trained myself to immediately angle mode and full throttle if I lose connection. Haha learned the hard way after panic disarming once ☠️
Great video, full of suspense and such a thrill to eventually find it, great job and that footage was worth all the effort, I've added your channel. Hopefully you'll connect with another drone pilot who has lost a few drones but always goes the extra mile to find them, no matter the cost!😊
Yea it was a fried wire that powers the O3. I just replaced it and its working normally, still gonna need to do some testing before helion gets yeeted into the mountains again.
@@aarondodson1261 no the gps really is only to get to a place where you can reconnect. I don't think it would have landed, and descending 6000 feet in gps mode apparently takes forever anyway lol
@@Suryakakade it's actually in perfect condition. It hit a fluffy tree and soft ground with a lot of leaves. Even the battery and props are OK! Only damage was the dji action 5 magnetic mount.
Its a bug at the current firmware of the goggles keep that in mind. Always log gps data on the Radio. I have lost my helion due to this as well but i could retrieve it thanks to that. But it was quiet a hike 😂😂
So its a lipo battery so it doesnt have the full 7000 capacity, it will go to about 5600 before it dies, and when i actually lost connection it was around 4000mah used. So it just died before it got back. It also had to climb to 6000 feet before returning
I’ve recently perched a couple of these beacons that vifly makes. They beep super loud and light up and they have their own battery and will go for two days or more I think they’re only $20 each totally worth it. I will always use it on the current quad that I’m flying.
Start painting your frames bright colors. Hot pink, fluorescent yellow, anything that’s contrasting to the environment. That and like what someone above said, self powered beeper. Vifly makes one that at night flashes a strobe every few seconds. Makes finding a downed quad easily at night.
Put a bigger angle at rth mode, i almost lost a drone in a safe scenario because the wind was so strong that the rth speed couldn t defeat the wind speed and my buddy blackout me with another armed drone, the sd card was full and i didnt had any recording or log on the remote, but i had the ennoying buzzer that saved me event though we can barely heard it becuse the wind was strong. There is an usefull mod that can write the last 50 coordonates at every each 5 sec even you forgot to activate the other display coord mods. even one rescue mode is usefull but when you have minimum 2 you can find it way faster. Safe flights.
@@eparustefan thx for the advice. Sometimes you would never think of any of this stuff until it happens to you. I could definitely see the wind making rth impossible!
Its a blue tooth tile, It doesnt have its own GPS, the tile will connect to my phone and use that to ping its location. So its worthless unless i get within 40 feet or so
Man, this is exactly why I have inav and have the inav lua script on my tx16s. Send the gps grid coordinates right back to my screen. I just punch that into Google maps and walk right to it. If I still have my radio connected, I'll activate my beeper when I'm close to aid in finding it if it's in thick stuff like that.
what if you had the GPS coordinates displayed on your radio, via telemetry? It could have helped in narrowing down search area drastically, right? I had accidentally disarmed my 5 inch mid flight, lost it some 350 meters away from my home, and I never found it. It was even denser vegetation than what you encountered. It was after that incident, that I configured the radio telemetry to display the coords. It may help in worst case scenario. In your case, that tile device was totally worth it!
@@CRAGLORD Missed to mention that the rate at which the telemetry updates the coordinates displayed on the radio matter - because during a high speed flight at an altitude, if the quad starts to fall down, the gps coords via telemetry may not always indicate precise location. Experienced that too.
This is why I always have Telemetry screens in my radio. incase i lose video I have batt voltage and Link quality and rssi in the radio and gps heading
So no one listened to JB or MADZ when they said don’t fly the 03 air unit they don’t reconnect after the signal loss question what configurator I NAV or beta flight and what flight controller was that
@@mikediggsv2 this was actually a different issue. Power wire went bad for whatever reason. Otherwise I'm confident it would have reconnected. It's a stock helion 10, f7 FC I believe
Even with GPS Rescue, it is essential that you create a widget on your radio that constantly displays your G-Code or basically your latitude and longitude. Even with a downed bird, you can take a picture of the values on your radio screen and then use a GPS compass app on your phone to bring you literally within 5-10 feet of the drones physical location. This is all assuming that you still maintain telemetry with the drone during the crash so the values update and are correct. This would have made your search effortless.
I endorse this message. Learned this the hard way...
Same happened to me with my Helion @4miles out and '5000 up a mountain. Complete blackout for 10:36. I got lucky and got video back and was able to land safely. Since then I have changed my antenna setup to a split-V and it makes a world of difference.
There is also a option to write the GPS coordinates to a log file on the SDcard if your controller.
I (and likely many others) would be grateful if you could provide more information on how to create such a widget and the steps to activate the widget on the RM TX16s, Boxer, Pocket or other common radios. I tried a UA-cam search and only found a few (created years ago) but the instructions were not very clear.
@@nielsB_FPV do you have any instructions / youtube reference on how to do that?
How could I live without Craglord and the mighty Helion 10 😂
Shit, I was ready to raise funds and ship you mine from Whistler B.C.
May the Crag be with you.
Beeper with own battery ?
Tile is fantastic !
#WhistlerSearch&Rescue
Addictive isn't it. Rewarding !
@PixelRacer64 hahah thanks man! I'm subbed to you, I want to go to BC in the summer and I'll need crag guides! Beeper with its own batt is a good investment and also setting up gps on controller would have been a huge help.
Compared to all your other great videos...this one is very interesting and strangely engaging! I love it!
@@kathiclark3964 this one is more aimed at other drone people lol
Good hook/engagement. Music choice and glad you found it🫶
Use the radio link telemetry to add the sensors to your radio. One of the sensors will be the GPS coordinates. So, if that ever happens again, you can see the actual coordinates of the drone on your radio screen. It'll make finding it MUCH easier to have a starting point to head to.
Do u have a guide or video on how to do that? :D
Exactly what I do and I store the flights to a test file on the SD card - full telemetry data for checking.
@@tmofpvif you use edge tx, go to model setting, telemetry display, and scroll until you select gps telemetry to be displayed. It will even retain last position even if your rc link break
@@tommegg8486 thank you sir ill do this!
Even 10,000 ft up a cliff l😂
Glad you managed to recover it. Great shots. I would avoid using max altitude on GPS rescue when you're mountain cruising and diving. Its a massive waste of battery. Seeing as you cant fly behind the mountain and you're always in line of sight current alt is fine. Great shots!
So glad you found it, great effort searching it out!
Ay falconrad
This is why I wish for a hybrid vtx that can switch to analogue for situations like this (activate in rescue mode), as nice as digital is, the reconnect after signal loss problem needs a solution, freeze with no reconnect or the dreaded rainbow screen is a nightmare, glad you put in the retrieval effort.
I was smiling as soon as you found it, great job.
Bigfoot gutted, no free drone today.
👍👍👍👍👍👍
@@geoffowen7627 haha thanks man. That's a great idea tho! It's probably a weight issue why it doesn't exist
@@CRAGLORDTbh I dont think an seperate vtx of analog weigh anything. I do know about folks who have angle and gps setup that the analog vtx goes into full power.
dude i was hooked on this lost visual incident. edge of my seat.
That shows your love for FPV hobby, you never gave up and I am very glad you recovered your drone, that’s my dream drone
Congratulations to you brother
@@raafatelnakib4236 thank you sir! I do love this drone, it's so fun to fly.... But I can't recommend the helion unfortunately. It's had way too many problems and jello issues
@@CRAGLORDoh really? Thank you so much for the information on the Helion
I have always been admiring this drone and wanted to get it but I will listen to your advise Sir.
Dude Im so happy that you found it. Congrats!
@@GoodLuckDuck-si6zr thanks sir! Happy to have found this expensive ass toy
great video and search and rescue
I second the script writing the GPS coordinates to the radio logs. Haven't had to use it yet thankfully but it brings comfort.
Glad you didn't lose two drones and your phone 😁
Good stuff, have to get gps telemetry on your radio happy and SAFE flying!
@@jorgec5335 haha yea I have that set up now thx to the community helping me out! Thx! Have to learn some stuff the hard way ☠️
🫡 Glad you got it back 👊🏻 , quite exciting to watch 🤘🏻
Got this video randomly recommended, and I'm happy to watch it. Glad you get your Helion back! The first minutes where intense. Keep up the good work mate, but without the loss. Greetings from germany.
Thanks sir! Greetings from Alaska!
Glad you Found it after all that work. Another grate gadget is the V fly beeper with a self-contained battery.
Wild dude so dope you found it!
@@Mcgeee thanks dude! Learning the hard way haha
So exciting. A pure thriller for every FPV Pilot. 10/10 would recommend to my local Cinema xD
situations like this make it so necessary to spent some time to get the correct gps rescue settings. these have to fit to your quad and the location you fly. never trust pre installed things. and do several checks in short distances before you do Longrange
Yea haha im new and learning the hard way ☠
Fantastic editing/storytelling!
Thanks sir!
Ah yes, saved by a tile lol. I had mentioned these in the Facebook group and people said “it wouldn’t work” yet here you just saved a quad. Congrats :)
@@D.Bergeron maybe I got the idea from you! Haha
Wow! And congratulations on finding your quad!
Great video and determination.👍💯
That feeling u get when u know ur drone is going down. This is why im hanging onto my full size crossfire module, shows gps coordinance. Nice video.
man this is a really good tile advertisement lol
That’s wild. Super glad you found it though. My favorite time of day here in Alaska is just after sunrise and just before sunset because I love the way the purple mountains look. I love your crazy adventures but I also appreciate the killer videos you get. Good stuff buddy
Fanx dood
Oh wow, awesome resue mission vid! Great you found it! 😁
So glad you found your drone. This is one of my biggest fears/ concerns when it comes to my LR drones.👍👍👍💯💯💯
@@peteroman4297 people say don't fly LR unless your prepared to lose youre toy! It always is painful anyway tho haha
At this point, when you said "I'm scared," my knees started shaking too, just like I do before a flight. I recently repaired the crossfire antenna on my remote control, and found that it had been torn off for a long time. And at the same time, I was climbing 4-5 km behind the clouds. And now I'm even afraid to imagine that I didn't know about it then.
@@PavelMy haha yea dude it can be terrifying when you lose vision/control and know it's just flying around up in the clouds ☠️
@@CRAGLORD at 1-1.5 km from me, I heard "telemetry lost", but the drone continued to be controlled. I then thought that the signal was blocked by my friend sitting on the side. And this video is just on my channel, a recent one.
This might be a classic. Love that you found that 10"
@@cllgscreative thank you sir!
Wow that so amazing 🎉
Very cool story. I was so excited that you found it. Great video. Watched every second. I subbed up.
Thanks dude! I feel this was one of my weaker videos, check out "death crag" its the one I am proud of haha.
@@CRAGLORD i will. Thanks for the time you put in.
Your flight and recovery was spectacular. I appreciate you sharing with us how you recorded the sun and the moon in the same sky, showing how imense and flat this plane called Earth is! Keep flying. Are you flying Lipo or Lithium packs?
Thanks dude!! This was a 7000mah high voltage lipo and im amazed how long it did last before dying.
Awesome my bro
so happy for you :)
Nice vid i subscribed to you you gonna watch more now. I have two questions: I guess youre using o3 how can you get so much more range than other people using o3? Also which antennas are you using on your goggles? I have also goggles 2 and im thinking about changing antennas
@cinematicfpv31 thanks dude! Check out my long range helion review vid I talk a bit more about that. But I use the true rc patch antennas and I turn the 03 quality down to 1080p, I feel that helps cause it's less data to transmit and I'm using a action camera anyway....
@ thanks! Your Videos are really nice to watch!
Congratulations for recovering it. This is a good lesson on why to enable EdgeTx logging, or even just a GPS Lua script, which would have allowed you to find it in minutes rather than days
I (and likely many others) would be grateful if you could provide more information on how to create such a LUA script and the steps to activate the widget on the RM TX16s, Boxer, Pocket or other common radios. I tried a UA-cam search and what I found lacked clear instructions.
@@jc.cantrell Hi, Oscar Liang has written a guide entitled "How to Log Telemetry Data in EdgeTX". You can use this to write GPS coordinates and other telemetry fields to SD card every second while a model is armed. This is IMO essential for long range flying, especially with digital video links like DJI with quirks in regard to reconnecting after signal loss. I believe EdgeTX ships with a basic GPS Lua script showing last known position which can be setup as a telemetry screen. It's also worth setting up telemetry screens so that you know what your quad is doing in the unfortunate event of video loss (velocity, altitude etc).
@@earthsgrip Thank you for all that information. I should have known to check Oscar Liang's content.
@@earthsgrip dude thank you for the pro tip. I will definitely do this!!
That footage is fantastic mate. Congratulations on getting your drone back mate. 😂
What an adrenaline rush! Glad you were able to recover it!
Glad you got it back! Wonder why the Goggles never reconnected to the Air Unit... Congrats on the footage :D
I just took the helion apart and the wire supplying power to the O3 was fried. I was using a high voltage battery, that could be why!?
@@CRAGLORD Can you do a video about it? What do you mean fried? Like burned?
@@meotyda well it wasn't visually damaged, but I replaced that one wire and all the sudden it's working again. It's a very thin wire so I just assume it got too much current and fried inside
@@CRAGLORD wow, that's strange. did you built this helion yourself, or it's BNF? In other words, maybe you do not fully plug the connector? Or is it a factory mistake?
@@meotyda Its a BNF, Im just guessing, but I think the LIHV battery possibly fried a wire.
The only thing better than this amazing story is the beautiful footage you retrieved. Thanks for sharing! I'm looking forward to the next rescue mission.
Haha thank you! Unfortunately it just snowed yesterday so the next rescue mission is impossible now☠. I have two other rescue videos up "mt doom" if you enjoy that stuff!
Did you even test RTH before attempting this flight?
Yea the RTH worked, the issue was how long it took to come back! I knew it was gonna die so i took LOS control and it died before i got it down.
@@CRAGLORDbroo.. nice and epic stories ❤, glad to have the helion back on the bench🎉🎉🎉🎉, left no drone behind, especially have an GPS finder 😁👊🙏
@@erlandfpv haha thanks dude. I'm learning a ton from these comments actually! Hopefully no more lost drones from here ☠️
Never give up, well done mate.
Dude so happy for you that you recovered your Helion. 🎉
Glad you got it back! That was nerve wracking! How are you going to address the video signal loss next time? I'm currently working on a helical antenna. I'm just worried that the beam might not be wide and I may forgot and start enjoying the view as I cruise outside of the beam.
@@neilfpv I tracked down the issue to a bad wire and everything is working fine now. If you are using goggles 2, remember they have 2 internal antennas as well that are omni directional. So you should still get decent connection even when outside the beam🤘
@CRAGLORD mine is goggles v2. I'm not sure if it's the same as goggles 2. Their names are confusing😆
@@neilfpv yes very confusing! Goggles v2 are different 😂. Not sure if they have internal antennas so be careful! Lol
Well done mate, very happy for you ;-)
Great video!!
What exactly is the name of this search beacon? How far away from the drone were you able to connect to it?
Its called a "tile" only connects via bluetooth, so it is worthless unless you get within 30 feet of it or so
Awesome. Can’t wait to see Alaska.
Lemme know if you come up! Ill take you to all the good spots!
@@CRAGLORD I’ll be visiting JBER (Anchorage) 4x a year. Def wanna get some flight time in. I wanna get a helion too. Seems amazing.
@@LenZFPV eh I can't recommend the helion unfortunately. Had a ton of issues with it (hence this video haha) but mostly jello stuff. I will say when it works it's a ton of fun to fly it
@@CRAGLORD I’ve heard about the hello issues. That’s in the GoPro? Like straight of vibrations? Then what’s a good long range quad?
Братишка , понимаю твои чувства , тоже терял дрон и долго искал его, и нашел его через 3 месяца. И он был цел , заменил 1 мотор и снова летал.
Теперь настроил отображение координат на аппаратуру .
Good job on finding it 💪 I don't want to think about that happening to me 😅 I saw you are using a magnetic DJI mount and I have some jello and can't fix it, any tips?
@@Tr0x1g I actually have some jello too lol so I don't think I'm the right guy to ask atm. I'm not sure if it's that mounting style yet
Now are you going to set your RTH to current altitude?
That has always made the most sense to me if you are flying up into the mountains.
Then, no matter whether you're flying out or returning it just climbs the prescribed meters then heads home.
PS - It shows that you enjoy the edit process.
@@willennsart8955 thx man! I definitely gonna be messing with the RTH settings. I'm afraid to do current altitude, cause if I go behind a peak on accident. I don't want the drone to turn around and run into the backside, I want it to climb and reconnect ideally!
@@CRAGLORD So what's wrong with setting the innitial climbout to say, 50m?
In the event of a failsafe or RTH, it climbs 50m above current alt and returns.
Had yours been set that way you would not have gone hunting, I think.
I mean, how often do you fly behind a huge obstacle at a distance and expect to get your drone back?
To me, the only time it makes sense to set it to max alt is when you are flying down from a higher launch.
But maybe that's just me...
Great video! I'm ordering a tile today!
@@jimlwolfe-empty-midwest it's a great backup, but just know it's worthless until you get within 30 feet or so and connect via Bluetooth. It doesn't broadcast its own location
do you loose drones often?
@@KwadzUK eh I'm been doing fpv a year now so it's becoming less common I hope 😂. Alaska is an unforgiving place to learn
Awesome 👍😎😎👍👍👍 great job 👍👍👍 so happy 💯👌👌👍
amazing bro！
Thx dood!🤘
Glad you found it. Good luck on finding the second one.
It just snowed yesterday, so the other one is doomed ☠😥
A slightly less dramatic version of this happened to me which lead to me setting up the GPS coordinates link on the controller. Should just be an automatic link but thats how I discovered it wasnt. Lead to me walking around in a farmers field at night with a torch & couldnt make contact to tell the farmer I was just looking for a drone. All ended well but know that feeling
@@Dec_K haha happy it ended well, I'd hate to confront a farmer in the dark, they can be pretty protective folk
Nice job finding it. I see what people say about the Helion not being the most stable drone, I'll stay with a 7"
@@ugpfpv361 it's really fun to fly but chimera still the way to go
So lucky... Im happy you can find the helion
At least you know not to stuff around so much now, if you've got visual LOS it straight away even if it's sketchy. Angle mode helps a lot here. Great vid anyways 👍
@@kingjam6433 yea I've trained myself to immediately angle mode and full throttle if I lose connection. Haha learned the hard way after panic disarming once ☠️
Can you tell us the distance and the total time of the battery
@@vemous100 I can't, because I didn't have osd. All I have is what you saw when screen when black. It flew for 10 min after that
Does the dji system not attempt to reconnect??
oh yea it normally reconnects in less than a second. This was a different issue
Great video, full of suspense and such a thrill to eventually find it, great job and that footage was worth all the effort, I've added your channel.
Hopefully you'll connect with another drone pilot who has lost a few drones but always goes the extra mile to find them, no matter the cost!😊
@@pdtech4524 thanks dude I appreciate it! 🤘
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how lucky you are to have found them. And lucky again that it didn't get stuck in one of the trees.
I didn't get it: why you lost your video reception and why it's not reconnected.
It was a fried power wire. Not sure why the wire failed but thats why it happened. Never flew LOS or anything.
@@CRAGLORD power wire to the googles? 😳
@@VlaViRus no a power wire leading from the FC to the O3 air unit. Not fault of dji this time
@@CRAGLORD oh, got it. Bad placing in the drone?) It's fried by itself or something else?)
@@VlaViRus It fried on its own. Only possible factor is that I was using a high voltage batt? Maybe?
What firmware are u Running on the DJI 2 / O3? Normaly it should reconnect - did u find the causing fault? 🤔
Yea it was a fried wire that powers the O3. I just replaced it and its working normally, still gonna need to do some testing before helion gets yeeted into the mountains again.
So was it the gps climb that killed the battery otherwise you would have not made it back regardless of signal loss
yes climbing up and then coming back down was taking wayyyy too long. I took LOS control and it died just after
@CRAGLORD shouldn't the gps have landed for you i saw you went behind a part of the mountain were you lost signal
@@aarondodson1261 no the gps really is only to get to a place where you can reconnect. I don't think it would have landed, and descending 6000 feet in gps mode apparently takes forever anyway lol
@CRAGLORD it will actually and you can change the settings as to how fast it flies back and decends even how high it initially climbs
@@aarondodson1261 nice! thx man ill look into this
nice video! I would recommend to use telemetry on your radio to get the coordinates without googles working...
Congratulations on the battle, what equipment did you use to locate it on your cell phone? Hugs
Great efforts, please show you the Helion 10 condition after the crash
@@Suryakakade it's actually in perfect condition. It hit a fluffy tree and soft ground with a lot of leaves. Even the battery and props are OK! Only damage was the dji action 5 magnetic mount.
Its a bug at the current firmware of the goggles keep that in mind. Always log gps data on the Radio. I have lost my helion due to this as well but i could retrieve it thanks to that. But it was quiet a hike 😂😂
@@5L1K-l33t you have any video of you're mishap? I'd love to see it! This one wasn't actually the firmware issue I believe, I tracked down a bad wire
@ Aaah shoot. Its just gnarly when ur visiona gone 💀😂 I have the Footage im thinking about uploading it 😃
Congrats on the sweet ending 🎉
THX dude!
something is wrong. 2800mah used. 2.58 km to home, 7000 mah not enough to return? u started with empty battery?
So its a lipo battery so it doesnt have the full 7000 capacity, it will go to about 5600 before it dies, and when i actually lost connection it was around 4000mah used. So it just died before it got back. It also had to climb to 6000 feet before returning
@@CRAGLORD i checked it's from another footage. 1:30
Oh snap the Craglord is at it again!
Damn that was a cool and exiting video. Now i gotta think about how i could implement smth like this for my chimera 7
I’ve recently perched a couple of these beacons that vifly makes. They beep super loud and light up and they have their own battery and will go for two days or more I think they’re only $20 each totally worth it. I will always use it on the current quad that I’m flying.
Thx for pro tip dude!
luky~
Start painting your frames bright colors. Hot pink, fluorescent yellow, anything that’s contrasting to the environment. That and like what someone above said, self powered beeper. Vifly makes one that at night flashes a strobe every few seconds. Makes finding a downed quad easily at night.
Yea haha, this hobby is wild! Still learning so much. Thx for the tips! I think ill go with orange!
Put a bigger angle at rth mode, i almost lost a drone in a safe scenario because the wind was so strong that the rth speed couldn t defeat the wind speed and my buddy blackout me with another armed drone, the sd card was full and i didnt had any recording or log on the remote, but i had the ennoying buzzer that saved me event though we can barely heard it becuse the wind was strong. There is an usefull mod that can write the last 50 coordonates at every each 5 sec even you forgot to activate the other display coord mods. even one rescue mode is usefull but when you have minimum 2 you can find it way faster. Safe flights.
@@eparustefan thx for the advice. Sometimes you would never think of any of this stuff until it happens to you. I could definitely see the wind making rth impossible!
But why did it lose video? even as it got closer? Nice recovery!
Turns out the power wire to the O3 air unit got fried☠
Great find brother! Had a similar issue and took me a week to find!
Did you find what the problem was? Why it didnt reconnect?
@CRAGLORD I did not; still not sure myself.
@@rustyscrewsrc I just replaced the power wire to my 03 unit and it's working now. Maybe try that!
Upgrading to Analog will solve the issue brother, great save !
@@platyfpv I'm in too deep with dji haha. Gonna just have to suffer the caveats that come with it
And... Why did the vtx disconnect?
No drone left behind…😊
Great story!! Does any gps device can connect back to the android?
Yea the Tile uses bluetooth. I was hoping my phone would connect to it if i got it close enough.
You had a gps ring in your drone ?? I didn’t understand what you showed ??
Its a blue tooth tile, It doesnt have its own GPS, the tile will connect to my phone and use that to ping its location. So its worthless unless i get within 40 feet or so
Looks like you didn't have an autonomous beeper! Why? JHEMCU ones is just 5$ on ali!
i think this is the dji goggles 2 disconnecting glitch
Possibly, but I replaced the power wire to the O3 and its working now.
Goggles 2 and O3 have no issues. It's the Goggles 3 that disconnect with O3 randomly
You can adjust the speed of the return to home flight. Usually its set quite slow. I think making it faster would have probably got it back.
I didnt know this, thank you! I never imagined id have to use GPS for anything other than just reconnection.
Man, this is exactly why I have inav and have the inav lua script on my tx16s. Send the gps grid coordinates right back to my screen. I just punch that into Google maps and walk right to it. If I still have my radio connected, I'll activate my beeper when I'm close to aid in finding it if it's in thick stuff like that.
Even with the cheapest Radiomaster Pocket you can record telemetry and EdgeTX even has a script to display a Google code of a last known location.
@kmieciu4ever yeah, it is definitely worthwhile to get that setup on whatever radio that supports it.
Ill definitely be doing this from now on. Thank you!
Mantap bro salam kenal salam satu pilot 👍✌️
what if you had the GPS coordinates displayed on your radio, via telemetry? It could have helped in narrowing down search area drastically, right?
I had accidentally disarmed my 5 inch mid flight, lost it some 350 meters away from my home, and I never found it. It was even denser vegetation than what you encountered.
It was after that incident, that I configured the radio telemetry to display the coords. It may help in worst case scenario. In your case, that tile device was totally worth it!
Yea after making this video people told me about this! I have controller telemetry all set up now, thx for pro tip!
@@CRAGLORD Missed to mention that the rate at which the telemetry updates the coordinates displayed on the radio matter - because during a high speed flight at an altitude, if the quad starts to fall down, the gps coords via telemetry may not always indicate precise location. Experienced that too.
This is why I always have Telemetry screens in my radio. incase i lose video I have batt voltage and Link quality and rssi in the radio and gps heading
So no one listened to JB or MADZ when they said don’t fly the 03 air unit they don’t reconnect after the signal loss question what configurator I NAV or beta flight and what flight controller was that
@@mikediggsv2 this was actually a different issue. Power wire went bad for whatever reason. Otherwise I'm confident it would have reconnected. It's a stock helion 10, f7 FC I believe
Trying to watch the Helion with your Mavic was genius. Shame it didn't work.
I didnt realize the helion was at 6k feet.... mavic wont go even close to that high. Thanks tho!