Lost DJI Mini 2 at Blea Tarn
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- čas přidán 15. 05. 2021
- Friday 2nd April 2021, I lost all GPS from my mini 2 at the top of Side Pike at Blea Tarn. Having had GPS signal and good connection - the home point updated 3 times - 1st at Launch then in the middle of the tarn, then at the other side. It lost all GPS at the top of the pike with 7 sats.
My friend Paul Byers who I thank for the additional footage - had 26 sats. Is this a faulty Mini 2- either way I have a new one that is performing well so far.
Shall I sell this or keep for spare parts?
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So glad you found your Mini 2! I lost my Mini 2 near Donner Summit in northern California last year when it was returning from a long flight, but it ran out of battery before it made it all the way back to me. I happened to have a spare Mini 2 that I used to search for the original, but after a couple of hours, not finding it, I received a text from another hiker with a photo of my drone. He found it earlier and took it home. Then he noticed my phone number on the bottom and texted me. We met up and he returned my drone and wouldn't even accept a reward. It was a very good idea to put my phone number on the drone. It made for a happy ending, as yours was. 🤩
Wishing you many happy flights!
Here was your mistake, you kept pressing RTH several times. Press once, drone returns, press again you cancel the return. Be patient, press it only once or just wait 11 seconds and the drone will come back on its own.
In settings in the fly app there is: setting for land if you loose signal, hover in place if you loose signal or return to home if you loose signal. The best choice that never failed for me is to select a RETURN TO HOME 🏠. It doesn’t matter how low you fly or how high, it always comes back to me. So you must of have hover in place if you ever lost signal. Always make sure settings are correct. Also there is no reason to keep a second drone for parts but you could probably sell for $300 or less depends on how long you had it and what shape it’s in.
On the Mavic Air 2, everyone has failed to let people know TWO VERY IMPORTANT MAJOR ISSUES with this drone. To quickly summarize and not bore your readers - FIRST the battery life is AT BEST 15 minutes - I have tested it. It is 30 if you just turn it on and leave it hover - but once you start using the gimble and the software and the presets and the turns and fight the wind - you have 10 to 15 minutes. How do I know this? Because my drone is at the bottom of the Rio Grand Gorge Canyon after IT ALL ON ITS OWN INITIATED A FORCED LANDING instead of having a feature that would bring my drone back when it reaches 35% battery. An easily added feature that DJI refuses to include. SECOND - the drone IS AMAZING when you know how to use it - but you don't know how to use it and you will likely have an issue or a crash or something and THIS COMPANY PROVIDES ZERO CUSTOMER SERVICE - no phone number, no response to emails and they are in China - sheltered from any access by any client. So WHEN you break it or it stops working or you need assistance, who is going to provide it? You? Please be more accurate with your reviews - it is a great drone BUT IT HAS THESE MAJOR FLAWS - LOW BATTERY LIFE (15 MINUTES MAX) - NO FORCED RETURN HOME FEATURE - NO CUSTOMER SERVICE!
@@quijanoguillermo1632 DJI honored the insurance and sent him another Drone. So they back thier claim. 2nd, 100 other DJI reviewers are getting an average of 27min flight time withh 100% return to home functionality. So basically your arguments are null and void.
Yeah I think its because of his return to home settings it was probably set to hover or the return to home height wasn't tall enough I lost my mini 1 drone because the return to home height wasn't high enough it clipped a tree and was stuck on a cliff face I didn't wanna risk my life to retrive it so it's probably still there
Must have not must of.
@@kennethrich2107 I agree, this is exactly what happened. Likely during a firmware update-this has been reported elsewhere. The poor satellite lock should have been a warning not to fly it so far away. It hovered at exactly the height it was programmed to if you figure in the fact he had to increase the max elev. in order to go over the top. There is nothing wrong with the drone unless it got wet overnight.
Just a little tip, orange is the best color to cover your drone in, that's why survival bags are orange as it's the best color to be seen from the air.
Thanks
Plus Orange will also help discourage bird attacks (most birds will avoid it because of the color).
01:02 How did you fly upside down here? ! 😮
what a beautiful shot at this mirror like lake. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙂
Great footage!
Awesome video,lets fly more👍
The photography is wonderful just don't take the drone so far away from you. People that do that are always taking a chance. Some of them do it for the video of some of them do it for the range test. If you don't want something strange to happen try to keep the drone a little bit closer but closer or go closer to the objects that you're trying to film
Thank God you recover youre drone💖💖💖
Remove those stickers and don't forget to set your loss of connection to RTH and set it higher than the hills. There is no problems with your drone.
We had solar flaires activity 20th to 27 may. That could be a problem also causing radio interference and loss in GPS in some parts of the world. There are channels on you tube that will alert you
I lost my drone (Mini2). I was using my IPAD to view which wasn’t connected to any service e.g. mobile. I went home (about 10 miles) emailed the find my drone (FMD) last location from the IPAD to my mobile, viewed on google maps on the mobile phone, went out and found it EXACTLY where the locator icon said it was - middle of a field. I totally understand the relief you felt when finding yours. My GPS experience was good, unlike yours so FMD does work for the most part.
Great vid!
For loss of signal the settings are: hover in place, descend and land, or return to home. You must have had the hover setting. I have lost signal after cresting a mountain. After about 30 seconds the Mini 2 reappeared doing a RTH. Setting it to hover or land after signal loss is a sure way to lose your drone. If you are higher than the RTH setting the drone does not descend but comes back at that height
On the Mavic Air 2, everyone has failed to let people know TWO VERY IMPORTANT MAJOR ISSUES with this drone. To quickly summarize and not bore your readers - FIRST the battery life is AT BEST 15 minutes - I have tested it. It is 30 if you just turn it on and leave it hover - but once you start using the gimble and the software and the presets and the turns and fight the wind - you have 10 to 15 minutes. How do I know this? Because my drone is at the bottom of the Rio Grand Gorge Canyon after IT ALL ON ITS OWN INITIATED A FORCED LANDING instead of having a feature that would bring my drone back when it reaches 35% battery. An easily added feature that DJI refuses to include. SECOND - the drone IS AMAZING when you know how to use it - but you don't know how to use it and you will likely have an issue or a crash or something and THIS COMPANY PROVIDES ZERO CUSTOMER SERVICE - no phone number, no response to emails and they are in China - sheltered from any access by any client. So WHEN you break it or it stops working or you need assistance, who is going to provide it? You? Please be more accurate with your reviews - it is a great drone BUT IT HAS THESE MAJOR FLAWS - LOW BATTERY LIFE (15 MINUTES MAX) - NO FORCED RETURN HOME FEATURE - NO CUSTOMER SERVICE!
Quijano Guillermo - There was clearly something wrong with your setup (faulty drone/faulty battery/extreme environment etc) because there are plenty videos on CZcams showing air2 gets 25-27 min flight time easily. I myself get over 20 min of flight most of the time (just checked my logs on airdata com), but I try not to stress my batteries, so charge them to 93-95% and land with 15%. Moreover dji does have several layers of protection regarding not losing your drone - and if the remaining battery is just enough to return to the homepoint the drone will initiate auto-return unless cancelled by user. This all has worked for me reliably over the course of several years first with Air1 and now with Air2.
@@quijanoguillermo1632 If we had the chance to look at your flight log for the time when it was lost there would be a simple conclusion, USER ERROR. You and Jonny here made critical mistakes which is why those issues happened. Jonny should have set his RTH properly. When the RTH pinged the second time he should have verified it by choosing his controller as the RTH point. Can only imagine what happened in your case.
@@jaycarl1562 it's my point exactly. With the need to "set up" certain safety features and alerts it makes it prone to user error. The return to hime feature should be a mandatory command in the software when battery (which is clearly over stated in it's fly time) reaches 30% - because at 30% (they know and don't tell you) your battery is basically dead. It's a farse.
@@quijanoguillermo1632 Return to home doesn't work too well when you're in a boat so I prefer a drone that gives me options over one that tries to be idiot proof. Don't blame DJI for your lack of preparation. BTW: I got my mini-2 two months ago. I've sent 4 email queries to DJI since and have received answers to each one of them in less than 24 hours.
Happy you Got a Mini 2 back. When you go over ridges or top of mountains or buildings The Mini 2 will lose signal. I think because of the Terrain is the reason you lost it and also because you had to change Max Height in mid flight.Stay safe well done ty for the video, New sub Thumbs up
You know its unreliable but your prepared to sell it to someone else and let them loose it.
Nice one!!
This is really interesting. You did a great job telling your frustrating story. I'm surprised they let you keep the first drone. I had a flyaway with my first Mavic Air and had to buy a new one. From that day, I always had connection and drifting problems with the two controllers and four Mavic Airs I would eventually have. I finally traded the Air up to the Mini 2 and it's been night and day. My Mini 2 has never failed or balked at anything which leads me to think that you and I might have gotten duds. A really interesting test would be to remove the skins piece by piece to see if the signal improves. I might advise you to keep the drone for parts if the test fails. You don't want someone else to have a defective drone. The other thing is, the batteries are so expensive, you will want it as a spare. Great, informative video and let us know what happens! - Christian
its not like I didn't try to get it fixed - sent all my logs and videos and still struggled to get a resolution and just manually approved a refresh
I have had a similar experience with a Mavic Pro....I was using the Litchi app and it would get to some random waypoint and just hover till battery death. I usually found that one -- until the last time it repeated the "hover till death" dance over a very inhospitable area....
That's a curious one. I wonder if those stickers have any microscopic metallic substance in the pigment which may have reduced GPS and RF signal strength. Had similar problems with a mobile phone case a few years back. Great video though, what a beautiful spot. Absolutely stunning!
Keep it so you in a friend can fly together
Enjoyed your video. Must let you know I was shocked to find out some plastics/rubber do block signals. I know this from researching what type of phone cases are bad for receiving signal. Guess what is the worse phone case? The rubbery jelly like cases were the biggest signal blocker. I would maybe not cover the whole drone if you still want colors.
looks like it was set to hover when disconnected from rc
I think it was set to land. It couldn't because of a unsuitable landing area so it just hovers in place until forced landing is initiated.
Nice 👍👍👍👍
I am glad your efforts paid off when you found your drone, though that must be very stressful. I lost my drone in Scotland last month never got it back. Technically my fault, I admit, but "find my drone" option in dji app doesn't pinpoint exactly where your drone is. In my case it was a bit far where the map was showing its last location took lots of effort for me to locate where it was beeping from, but then I realise drone got stuck on nearly 45-meter high tree and I left it there. I just ordered another dji mini 2 after watching lots of obstacle sensors failing videos on youtube decided not to buy an expensive drone and this time be more vigilant when flying at new places.
Also now you have another drone. Try same path again with the blue drone. That can be a great test to see this time it works. This time try in dry weather so if you have to rescue it, land will be less slippery.
On the Mavic Air 2, everyone has failed to let people know TWO VERY IMPORTANT MAJOR ISSUES with this drone. To quickly summarize and not bore your readers - FIRST the battery life is AT BEST 15 minutes - I have tested it. It is 30 if you just turn it on and leave it hover - but once you start using the gimble and the software and the presets and the turns and fight the wind - you have 10 to 15 minutes. How do I know this? Because my drone is at the bottom of the Rio Grand Gorge Canyon after IT ALL ON ITS OWN INITIATED A FORCED LANDING instead of having a feature that would bring my drone back when it reaches 35% battery. An easily added feature that DJI refuses to include. SECOND - the drone IS AMAZING when you know how to use it - but you don't know how to use it and you will likely have an issue or a crash or something and THIS COMPANY PROVIDES ZERO CUSTOMER SERVICE - no phone number, no response to emails and they are in China - sheltered from any access by any client. So WHEN you break it or it stops working or you need assistance, who is going to provide it? You? Please be more accurate with your reviews - it is a great drone BUT IT HAS THESE MAJOR FLAWS - LOW BATTERY LIFE (15 MINUTES MAX) - NO FORCED RETURN HOME FEATURE - NO CUSTOMER SERVICE!
Nice area and video. I personally would keep it for spares. Or sell it as spare parts only and not as a proper working drone, as it has a problem. In ending, i know they say a minimum of 7 sats for take off. I always get between 12 to 19. Personally will not take off with only 7 sats. But have not experienced that yet.
That was your problem only having 7 satellites should never fly unless you have minimum 15 satellites
Its like your baby keep it i have mavic air/ mavie air 2/ 2s and the mavic zoom and i will keep all of them any way good flight 👍👍👍🇨🇭🇱🇨
Yes, there is a drone app that shows notams, it will indicate when GPS blocks are in action. Once that home changed position, would have flown back yo reset or changed to controller location in the app
which app ?
I'm glad you recovered your drone. After looking at your video, an idea cam to mind, have you considered adding a SmartTag to the drone? -> as been a separate device it might be of help, but maybe you have considered the pros and cons of adding such a device.. any comments on the idea?
Good suggestion. Thanks for that will look that up
Always check Advanced Safety settings in the first tab, right at the bottom of the menu.
RTH has 3 options Land, Hover or return!
I suspect you had hover or land selected?
Always check this setting as part of your preflight check list, it usually remembers the setting and doesn't need changing BUT I have seen mine reset to hover or land on a couple of occasions especially after a DJI Fly app update.
As for the home point keep changing, just be careful, I have seen this happen on other CZcams videos, where it kept changing constantly throughout a flight, if this happens over a lake, that will be your home point and the Mini 2 will return and land there! 😯⚠️
I've never seen it happen on mine!
Glad you found your drone, I've added your channel, hopefully you'll check out my Mavic Mini related channel and connect.👍😎
Yeah totally missed this.
Thanks
my pal crashed his mavick air at pavey ark, we thought it was 36 metres up, bright sunlit day made it difficult to see it was actually 36 meters to his left, we found it almost a week later at the foot of pavey ark .. still flies but ofc the rear sensors don't work!
What do the DJI logs show? Sounds like hover in place was selected, rather than return to home and the DJI logs should show. One thing I have learnt is no surer way to loose signal that going behind hill which sounds like happened. After loosing connection RTH button will do nothing. Anyway lessons for us all - thanks for sharing. Pleased you got back your Mini 2! Looks lovely location - must put on my list to visit when I holiday in the Lake District.
thanks - yeah it was set to hover - lesson learnt
i also lost the drone. same thing. i try for 2 meter before try to lock a proper homepoint for landing but within 10 sec move all the screen blank n gps lock after all drone its not far from me n just straight from me n its just dont stop n few away. just lost like that. i was shock. could it be happening like that. i was sad to see it. is there a problem with the software.
very sad to see it happening like that.and if it do happen it seem to be unstable with this mavic mini 2
If you still got it donated it to someone that really wants one but can't afford one.
You said it in the end but i also thought those stickers could be the main reason to block gps...
haven't a clue - many say not but unless DJI say otherwise...they're off on my new mini 2
Only time you should set to hover is if you are flying in woods around trees etc. You don't want drone going up into the canopy. Minimum RTH I believe is around 50 feet? Open area flying as you were, deffo RTH should be set. Pre flight checks???
I lost my by running out of juice in battery. What I don't understand it this:I have the coordinate where it fall(lending)but the drone is not their (it a wooden area).I'm just wandering if I somehow lost contact before landing,so the coordinate corresponding are not exact (it possible for the drone to fly farder from the moment of losing contact ,)?
I would THANK DJI for the REFRESH DRONE .
And RETURN the older Drone for a CREDIT when you again need one , since you are back to where you started and now have have a great story to tell your Followers because of the refresh policy by DJI ! You now have a COOL STORY and Experience in which was told QUITE WELL and DJI was Generous to replace it after the fact since you first bought the drone WITHOUT DJI refresh , correct.
Sound like you set your drone to hover when a signal is lost in the setting. I will assume a user error in setting before take off.
I'm getting a mini 2 soon so I don't have direct experience with one however 2 things come to mind. Assuming you did have RTH on signal loss, maybe the RTH height was lower than the crest height? or the max height was lower than the crest height, but I think you already changed that while flying. So what does the mini 2 do if the RTH height is lower than the height you needed to get over the crest?
Wanna buy my two and remote ? Yeah should have done RTH rather than hover but I’d only had it one month lol 😂
Keep as a spare. I lost 2 drones already bcos of the return to home loss of control .
Did you try flying it after? Could the stickers have been a factor in loosing gps? Trying fkying it without them see what happens.
The material of the blue stickers might block GPS signal. Is it from DJI?
To find the drone, you should search another location. Draw a line between the last home point and the location of the drone where it lost controller signal.
Walk along the line until you reach the highest place.
Another possibility is that the drone headed to LAT=0, ALT=0 when it lost controller signal.
Stickers don’t block as it’s not metallic and not happened to anyone else. I’d just not set return to home and was set to hover. My bad.
It would be nice if you admit your mistakes for everyone else to learn from. RTH was not properly set, if it was then it would fly back to where it took off from or to the controller. Instead it hovered for over 20 min because that was how you set it up. Happy you found it and received another drone, I suggest abusing the old one with aggressive aerial videography for giggles. Thanks for sharing, Liked and Subscribed!
With your new drone don’t let it fly over a hill, fly LOS at all times 🤷♂️ lesson learnt 👍
Are you sure it lost GPS? I find that hard to believe with no weather or any real obstacle blocking view of the GPS satellites at the top of that hill. Perhaps you lost connection to the controller and that initiated a "land now" command. Do find out and tell us.
I guess i will never get amazing shots because i never go beyond 400m esp of their are obstacles i go 300m.
I will however be able to test it when im in Austria next month lets see!
I lost my mini 2 3 dsys ago!!since i update the latest version of the DJI fly app I lost my singal when i was Just 750 meter away and my image also freeze I puch the RTH button and it came back but 3 days ago i was just flying 45 meter away and 35 meter high and sudently it felt out of the sky drone gone looking for more than 4 ours and the next day 3 again I waching my footage back and i think it fly into the water or it hanging in a big hich tree .I was so mad that order today a new fly more combo 🤬🤬🤬🤬F....DJI WITH YOUR LATEST UPDATE 👍STICK THIS SOME WHERE THE SUN DONT SHINE !!!🤬🤬
I always worry when I fly at altitudes needed for mountain peaks and ridge lines because if I have climbed to 800 feet (240 meters) and my RTH setting is lower that that and I lose signal the RTH will then descend to the RTH setting essentially flying itself into the ground. It looks like you flew over the ridge and lost signal and RTH kicked in and it descended into the ground? The drone doesn’t know it was really only 50 Feet from the ground not 800. The only way RTH would have cleared that stone wall would be if your RTH setting is higher than the ridge line. Just a possibility?
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The drone only rises to the RTH height if it's lower, it doesn't descend to the RTH height if it is higher.
Return to home hight to low in settings?
User´s fault, always do a preflight check....
I think the stickers on ur drone badly affect the gps. It covers the gps module inside the drone and I think its quite sensitive to interference so that prob doesn't help
Would it be possible to have a beeping feature on drones that self land? Of course, the drone would have to land before the battery is totally dead. Don’t they do that anyway? An intermittent beep might allow someone to find it even if it can’t be seen.
I usually attach a very powerfull strawberry light on my drone. it is expensive but the different colours you can choose last 7 hours- You can fly wirhout the load button on for it's so light.
There is a locate my drone function in the app and if there is still enough power in the battery, it will make a sound so you can locate it. What happened in the video was user error. He flew the drone out of sight behind a friggin mountain. No wi-fi can penetrate that at that distance. So he lost video connection, then he panicked and pressed RTH (Return to home) several times, which canceled auto return. All he had to do was wait for 11 seconds and the drone would have returned on its own. User error is the most common reason people lose their drones, they panic and keep mashing RTH and cancel it by doing that.
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How much do you want for the drone ? I'm looking to get into flying drones as a new hobby and this looks like a nice little drone to get started . Let me know if you're interested in selling .
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Just noticed this was ages ago sorry .. time for bed for me !
Keep it
DJI firmware is a pain in the 🅰️SS.....mine keeps signal lost with the RC even if it's four feet away from me....
What was your setting when signal was lost ? Was it to RTH or land ?
screen went black - but tried RTH
If the RC isn't connected to the drone pressing RTH wont work.
@@nickh2373 yeah already had pressed RTH. But no good as it was set to hover !!
It would solve the problem if they have put some telemetry on the controller!
I'm glad you find your drone and got the replacement. ;)
I don't understand why, when the RTH was reset over the lake, you didn't reset the RTH to be the controller.
It was set to hover like a divvy I’d not checked - just checked but even DJI didn’t spot that in my settings
IF you travel to different areas is a good idea to re-calibrate.
Dont think its MOD using GPS jamming , they would be knocking out everyone’s mobile phone up there . Also its 8am in the Morning so no low flying aircraft at that time .
If it was a weekend then defo no flying aircraft around .
Should always set it to return to home if signal is lost .
Sell the drone and put the money towards a upgrade
If you lose connection ..wait 20 sec. Dont push the rth button is also pause button..You pusht in pause..than he stayed that way intil you battery was empty and land...next time of you complete lost connection..do nothing than he comes back on his own..
I'm seeing to many glitches with the mini 2
The first reset of RTH was because you were with 20” of the water, luck you did not loose it then. DJI/Profile/find my drone records last GPS of the drone when it turns off or looses link. Check for fun those coordinates, verify on Google Earth, of down loaded map on you phone if out side of cell range is a really good idea, because your phone gps can take you to those coordinates. Great place to fly. Much easier to hike in and find the drone then most places with trees and brush. watch your screen data when flying and if not good land asap, or switch to sport, orient and watch map and then rush home. i have had wind try to run off with my drone twice now. Got to be ready, practice scenarios.
I think the drone wanted to decent to the set hight before return to home but kept hovering because of the sensors under the drone close to the ground.
If the drone is higher than RTH altitude it doesn't descend, just flies home at that altitude.
Please buy some flashing lights for you drone. I found my drone back with that lights.
rth get cancelled if you press the button again
It was a test from God.
How much $$$$
Keep
You shouldn't of been flying a drone out of site!
I would like to buy your drone as long has it comes with all items. Please contact via youtube.
It’s all been tested and nothing wrong with it. It’s user error but doesn’t come with remote.
your drone looks like its from Lidl ,,, take off all that crap on it.... it does not help the gps ,, get some lights for it
Ha ha have mini 2 replacement which is plain. Don’t need lights it’s not the starship enterprise
restart the drone might have helped
its 100% incorrect settings for when signal loss....you didnt have it set to RTH when signal is lost anymore...this is a user error video
This is why it's not legal to fly outside line of sight and why you should fly back as soon as you have any technical issues..
The stickers usually weigh about 6g which will likely block some (a tiny bit) of the signal and put the drone over 250g.
I'm wondering if the issue is with the controller, if the Home Location updated itself you should have brought it home manually and immediately.
It could have been worse as the home location updated in the lake centre, if you had it set to RTH on signal loss (which I would) and didn't get manual control back it could have landed in the water.
Stickers do not weigh 6g 🙄
@@JonnyGiosPhotography The full body packs do.
you made 2 huge mistakes. you cant fly over mountains a mile away and you should set the new one to return to home, not land in screwedville lol
That would be a good video if you didn't talk through the whole video.
Huh, I didn't have any problem.
Maybe don't air all of your dirty laundry. Far from being helpful, this could be fodder for those that hate us.
We don't need to know every meal you have,
@@odinata thanks for your constructive comments. I really hope you are one of those numpty auditors