#Lost a very expensive drone when it suddenly started spinning out of control.

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hybrid kettle
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Hey everyone, my Nazgul lost its marbles and itself in the cornfield. / this happened the other day and I cannot find the damn thing anywhere in the corn. Here's the goggle feed, unedited. Feel free to send this around if anyone has ideas on how I could possibly track it down in 10 feet tall corn. Gotta find it before the evil corn farmers harvest my nazgul accidentally with the corn and it becomes corn and they make me eat it.

https://youtu.be/UYq8DVvlF0M

lost my drone in 10 foot tall corn field. serached the field for hours with my dad a few different times, no luck :( . if anyone has any ideas of to track this thing down PLEASE LET ME KNOW ASAP!!

thanks for whatching :)

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lavish fossil
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I'm not sure what you can do about finding that, but in the future you can use GPS telemetry to your radio and a self powered beeper. If you have access to the land, that should nearly always let you find a downed quad.

molten hound
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Nlg you might be cooked but look in the general area and keep looking at the fottage as you search

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Also harvesting that drone might cause a fire cuz of the battery

hybrid kettle
molten hound
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maybe it bounced into one of the corn

hybrid kettle
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Who knows, I'll probably fly out there everytime I go now and see If I can spot a piece of it 😂

tranquil summit
hybrid kettle
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What makes you say that?

latent lodge
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it's right there

hybrid kettle
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Hahaha yupp, a couple guys and I searched though that area for another 4 hours today, but the grass is so tall you can't see a thing. I was paranoid that if I put a GPS on my drone the government would come steal it or something 😂. Lesson learned. Expensively.

latent lodge
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get out there 💪

hybrid kettle
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I went back and looked with another drone today, no luck. But idk how much more I can look for it.

latent lodge
hybrid kettle
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Ill let the next generation of drone scavenging civilization come back for it.

tranquil summit
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before it goes into a complete spinout

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It's like one of the motors was occasionally producing thrust

hybrid kettle
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Gotcha, thank you

formal mango
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i was gonna say look in the tree itself, and not the corn

west parrot
# hybrid kettle Ill let the next generation of drone scavenging civilization come back for it.

Yeah. As others have said; if you're gonna fly like this, in places like this, you need a GPS and something like a ViFly Finder.

Stick the GPS co-ords on your OSD, and you get that last frame visual plus the last known GPS co-ords on the DVR. The self powered buzzer should be audible when you get to that location.

Nasty way to learn the lesson, but it's not something you'll do twice, I suspect.

hybrid kettle
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Yeah, gps/beepers are on the way for the rest of my fleet. Idk why I was so against a GPS previously lol