Flyaway

Steve Carr · Mar 4, 2022

@jamesj91384
Please follow the steps in this video to recover the flight log files. Upload the zip file directly to this page as you did with the other zip files.

jamesj91384 · Mar 14, 2022

Steve Carr said:
@jamesj91384
Please follow the steps in this video to recover the flight log files. Upload the zip file directly to this page as you did with the other zip files.

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Steve, I need to get a SD card and card reader adaptor for MAC, the only SD card I had was in my drone. Will do ASAP.
thank you for helping.

jamesj91384 · Mar 14, 2022

Vaklin said:
@DoomMeister, ask how the files are obtained. I'm almost sure, these files are from the SD card in the ST16, not from the file system.

I don't have an SD card in the controller, can the files be obtained without an SD card? The only SD card I had was in the camera on the drone.

Vaklin · Mar 14, 2022

The simplest way is to use an SD card but with some luck, your computer will recognize the controller. Any SD card with the FAT32 filesystem can be used in the controller.

h-elsner · Mar 14, 2022

The easiest and preferred way is to connect ST16 via USB cable to PC. Easy for all but Mac user. Mac user needs additional application to get connection as Android File Transfer or MacDroid.

See here: How to Connect Android to Mac: Best Methods (2022 Edition)

br HE

jamesj91384 · Mar 14, 2022

WTFDproject said:
Kind of an "off the wall" thing, but can you mark this image to show the approximate direction the drone travelled after losing control? Can you estimate how high above ground level it was?
View attachment 27713

I would estimate the elevation was 200-250 feet. I got on the roof to try and get reconnected and to have a better view of drone.

WTFDproject · Mar 14, 2022

Not good. The direction it traveled suggests it would have travelled a couple of miles before encountering land high enough to stop it. At that distance the chances of it staying on course are not good. Using the estimated height and direction would yield the two areas marked in red as the general search area. Not really much hope in this, but it's all I have at the moment. Maybe better if we can get the flight logs to narrow down the path as far as telemetry held up.

h-elsner · Mar 15, 2022

Non of the pictures I see here have a relationship to the flight log I have downloaded. Can someone tell me what logs do you use?

br HE

WTFDproject · Mar 15, 2022

h-elsner said:
Non of the pictures I see here have a relationship to the flight log I have downloaded. Can someone tell me what logs do you use?

br HE

We still don't have the real flightlogs. The pics above are just Google Map marked up using recollections and estimations from what he remembers.

Steve Carr · Mar 16, 2022

@jamesj91384
Where do you stand with this?
Did you try again to get the flight logs from the controller as shown in the video?

P Howard · Mar 17, 2022

A comment from the peanut gallery to jamesj - Go in to your controller and make sure you have the correct date and time. My Typhoon H controller will frequently default back to some earlier date and time. Files will then be marked with the incorrect date and time.

DoomMeister · Mar 17, 2022

P Howard said:
A comment from the peanut gallery to jamesj - Go in to your controller and make sure you have the correct date and time. My Typhoon H controller will frequently default back to some earlier date and time. Files will then be marked with the incorrect date and time.

If you have good GPS data it should change to the correct date and time (standard as GPS does not use daylight savings), but easy enough to check beforehand. I believe it is the GPS on the ST16 that is used, but I could be wrong.

Vaklin · Mar 17, 2022

DoomMeister said:
I believe it is the GPS on the ST16 that is used, but I could be wrong.

You're right. The copter doesn't know about the clock time at all. The camera uses the time from the ST16. Still didn't check how often it is updated.

Steve Carr · Mar 17, 2022

The only time any of my ST16's update the time and date is when I connect them to the wifi router. I don't recall them ever updating on their own in the field.

Vaklin · Mar 18, 2022

Try to set the time with a few minutes difference from the real one and after that check what happens with a GPS coverage for ST16. Sometime before I tested this and it works. The problem with the ST16 is a chaotic selection of timezone and daylight savings time. This is a known problem, which reflects the time of the taken pictures too. A year ago I was found a balanced solution, now I'm not flying active, so should reconstruct it to the spring.