Yep, I wouldn’t give up. I can usually find them but the trees are reluctant to give them back. May get one of those telescopic fishing poles on eBay, good for quite a few metres and still fit in the car. Have you tried fitting gps modules to the quads worth hunting down? Not so much for the rth feature but locating them in the forest when you’ve got a man down situation. I use the small blue tooth buttons which are reasonable up to 80-100m but shite beyond that.View attachment 3322
This was the crash from my longest search. 6 hours on day one, 2 hours on day two before I found it. I walked over 10 miles back and forth along my flight path. She spent the night upside down in a pond. Lost the FC, the ECCs, the battery and the GoPro (it was cracked so it's no longer waterproof) Everything else works though, and I recovered the SD card obviously. I'd still be out there today if I hadn't found it ?
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Now that’s a ‘where’s wally’ moment...
My experience is always the last battery and I do something stupid. Considering a GPS unit for the chameleon ti as it is clearly my favourite and I will cry incessantly if I lose it. The only standalone unit I can find in the event of a huge stack is along the lines of a Marco Polo unit but then I may as well fly my dji stuff given the bulk of the unit.I use Hellgate buzzers on all my deep woods builds, they're great. I had just started to get cocky when I lost that quad, and the hellgates don't work under water. That's a part I forgot to list. Since they have their own little battery, it was also destroyed in the water. Only $20 though. I haven't tried a GPS yet