Hi All,
I just wanted to share my experience from last weekend... Not the best weekend as you can tell from the thread.
I bought a karma 2 weeks ago, super excited. I wanted to wait before flying it, cause I didnt want to be that guy who crashed his drone first flight...
I went for a weekend away, a long drive from Wellington (NZ) to Rotorua, a 5.5 hour drive or so. I found a nice clear remote area, I checked that it wasnt an illegal place to fly. I did all the pre-flight checks, and off we went.
The karma drone was lifting off, went to a stable hoover in front of me. I did a small turn checking the controls, all was working fine. I flew back to my start position and framed my camera to start recording. I slowly went higher and further, looking at the controller framing up the shot, 38 seconds in, all of a sudden the sound of the drone went. I look up and see it fall in free fall. Around 10 meters above ground the engines went back on, but too late.
I went looking for it for hours, but noting to find. The area was full with high grass/bushes of about a 1-1.5 meter high. Once I arrived at the hotel, I uploaded the flight log from the controller. Next day I went back to look for it again, unfortunately no luck either.
To make matters worse, in my great state of mind (angry, disappointed, sad you name it) I of course managed to forget the controller, must have been at the place I searched for the drone (3.5 hour drive from Wellington).
Weekend ruined!
I'm in contact with Gopro now, but of course they say.. hey we need the serial number of the controller. I think this is weird, since I uploaded the data from the controller logged in under my gopro account. Of course I'm going back to look for it, but chances are small I find it, plus the 3.5 hour drive is not something you can do easily.
Does anyone have any advice for me? I feel so incredible stupid loosing the controller that I tent to forget that the drone dropped out of the sky first flight!!! How is this possible! How often does this happen? Any others on the forum that had the same experience?
I will keep you all posted on the progress with gopro, but any thoughts or ideas are more than welcome.
David
I just wanted to share my experience from last weekend... Not the best weekend as you can tell from the thread.
I bought a karma 2 weeks ago, super excited. I wanted to wait before flying it, cause I didnt want to be that guy who crashed his drone first flight...
I went for a weekend away, a long drive from Wellington (NZ) to Rotorua, a 5.5 hour drive or so. I found a nice clear remote area, I checked that it wasnt an illegal place to fly. I did all the pre-flight checks, and off we went.
The karma drone was lifting off, went to a stable hoover in front of me. I did a small turn checking the controls, all was working fine. I flew back to my start position and framed my camera to start recording. I slowly went higher and further, looking at the controller framing up the shot, 38 seconds in, all of a sudden the sound of the drone went. I look up and see it fall in free fall. Around 10 meters above ground the engines went back on, but too late.
I went looking for it for hours, but noting to find. The area was full with high grass/bushes of about a 1-1.5 meter high. Once I arrived at the hotel, I uploaded the flight log from the controller. Next day I went back to look for it again, unfortunately no luck either.
To make matters worse, in my great state of mind (angry, disappointed, sad you name it) I of course managed to forget the controller, must have been at the place I searched for the drone (3.5 hour drive from Wellington).
Weekend ruined!
I'm in contact with Gopro now, but of course they say.. hey we need the serial number of the controller. I think this is weird, since I uploaded the data from the controller logged in under my gopro account. Of course I'm going back to look for it, but chances are small I find it, plus the 3.5 hour drive is not something you can do easily.
Does anyone have any advice for me? I feel so incredible stupid loosing the controller that I tent to forget that the drone dropped out of the sky first flight!!! How is this possible! How often does this happen? Any others on the forum that had the same experience?
I will keep you all posted on the progress with gopro, but any thoughts or ideas are more than welcome.
David