Hi Andrew
I was wondering how you managed to crash into the Forth? Was this a technical problem?
I crashed into the Holy Loch last year after a bird took a dislike to the P4. It took me 3 weeks with an underwater camera to retrieve it from 30m but it was a bucket job!
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Impressed that you retrieved it, well done. Sadly mine was a long way out. To this day I don’t know what happened. It’s a toss up between complete brain freeze and an undetermined flyaway, but the logs seemed to show perfect flying, just not in the right direction!
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I hasten to add, I was outside the airport NFZ !
I think we have to hear this story!
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Certainly do. I’d like to know about the retrieval.
Impressive achievement recovering it at that depth, looking at it it looks like it’s been under a lot longer than 3 week
Hi folks, I thought I would tell you more about the loss and retrieval of my Phantom 4 which came down the the Holy Loch in Argyll. I was desperate to try a flight from my boat which is moored there but very apprehensive! I tried floats by they made the drone very unstable in flight, then discovered a capsule system which inflates on a long line for retrieval. On approaching the stern to land the aircraft was attacked by a number of very angry gulls and went in at 45degrees… I took a bearing on the position and noticed bubbles but no capsule! My brother had an underwater camera on a long line so I thought it would be easy to retreive… Not quite. Its pretty deep with poor visibility and strong currents, so every day at low tide I’d scan the seabed in a pattern. On the day I was giving up I spotted it a long way from the entry point and used a small grapnel hook to pull it up. It had exploded and blown the entire bottom section off and was full of worms, mud and stank to high heaven! The memory card was burnt out and the data card unreadable. Needless to say I was on ebay looking for a replacement.
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Nice effort anyway. I thought you’d been looking for it with scuba gear and hope you had a drysuit!
That’s fantastic, well done!
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