Happy you got it back.
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Glad you got it back ok. It’s amazing just how tough the little buggers are.
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Glad its all worked out well for you Isaac 
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Do you know anyone who works for Openreach? We have an extendable carbon fibre pole for measuring heights. That might reach?
If you read the posts above you’d have seen her already got it back … courtesy of the wind shaking it free.
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I know OP got their drone back which is great, but the mention of a “Drone Saver” reminded me that I looked into the same a while back so thought I should share.
The real ones were way too expensive so I did look for cheaper alternatives, the best option seems to be the kind of extending pole that people use at big festivals to find their group.
Never actually hit Buy so can’t vouch for it, but these come in different lengths up to at least 7m and looked like it might work. Relatively lightweight and collapses to about a meter long.
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In my experience, if you can, find a very helpful GADC member (@clinkadink) with a big drone and a dough hook…
All is explained here… I've Lost My Drone somewhere up there
How ever you do it… good luck
See my post above… you can go up to 10m!
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Not sure how I completely missed that, but great minds clearly think alike!
I have a Mini2 stuck up a tree 3 months now. but it’s in a very overgrown area, the trees don’t lose their leaves , I can only guess at what tree it’s in as I never could pick up where it as exactly, only hear the faint bleep on it. Which now has gone as the battery is flat. Been back 4 times and now I’m having to call it a goner. It’s a difficult overgrown area just to search , it may well have come down but all searches can’t find it.The trees in the area all are very tall and dense. If anyone is in the Kent area and want to try their luck they are welcome to it. I’ll give the rough location, all I can say it’s in the Bobbing Kent area. but even getting to the trees is a task as it entails getting through a lot of undergrowth.
Feel free if you want to find it.
Put a sign up some someone can contact if they find it.
Chimney sweep rods, perhaps!
It’s way too high if it’s in one of the trees. 30ft possibly. But no point in going up a tree until you are certain which one it’s in. (That’s if it’s still up in the tree, the undergrowth is a nightmare as well) very restricted site.
No point in putting a notice up as it not in an area that is normally accessed. You can only get in there when everything has died down in winter. But the trees still have their leaves.
If anyone is genuinely wanting to look for it I’ll give them more details. But chimney poles wont be any use. Everything there is so dense.
Having lost a Mini 2SE myself, I am really most sorry to hear this. Those first few minutes when you think you might be able to retrieve and then slowly realise it’s a goner are horrible; not heartbreaking, but not far off it!
If it’s been up there for 3 months, with the weather we’ve had, it may well be ruined I’m afraid. The only thing I can suggest is that, if it is in the outer part of the foliage (which it probably would be if it crashed from above or the side) it might be locatable with another camera drone. Preferably one with zoom so you don’t have to get too close to the trees…
If you can precisely locate it, (or anyone looking for it) might then have a better idea of how to go about recovering it. Perhaps the local fire brigade might consider it as an exercise for their extending ladder in return for a donation to whatever charity they might support. It needs to be done v. soon, though, as the undergrowth will return with a vengeance in the spring!
My only other suggestion, in case it’s been blown to the ground in one of the storms, would be to get a few friends, or even better children (local cubs scouts, perhaps; kids are better for this because they are closer to the ground and less prone to being stuck in thickets) to do a line search sweep in the area, for beer (or ice cream). I’m guessing you know where it is within a few trees. Make it a game for the kids!
If it can be recovered, it will need to be cleaned and thoroughly dried out slowly. It hasn’t been in salt water, and there isn’t much in there that’s ferrous, that would rust, so you might just get away with it. Don’t give up yet!
Trees are dicks. So are seagulls.
It’s far more difficult than that, couldn’t let kids in the area, so overgrown, nit safe, not normally accessible, also close to a railway line. Can’t use another drone as no room to fly it , the trees are densely packed together.even I struggled a fell a few times trying to get to the location. I’m ex Fire Brigade so I know even they wouldn’t be able to get to it.
I did emphasis it’s extremely hard to get to, just to find it let alone retrieve it. I not that upset by its loss just I hate failing at anything. But one has to be pragmatic, it’s gone and that’s it.
I understand and sympathise, Maxpower; hope it was insured or covered by Care Refresh. There’s a good chance that it could be damaged in the recovery as well, so maybe best to leave it where it is. Bummer, dude…
I won’t go into too many details but it’s there because of a very unusual and embarrassing situation. Totally down to me, and I not a novice.
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