Even the Army has flyaways

[licensed pilot]

Fort Huachuca drone is MIA in Cochise County

 

[AeroMirage]

Gee... forgot to put on the Marco Polo......?

 

[licensed pilot]

That whole crew is going to be on permanent KP...

 

[AeroMirage]

Yeah, I guess so.... $1.5 Million...... and we thought DJI gear was expensive!!!

 

[licensed pilot]

Fort Huachuca drone is MIA in Cochise County

Found in a tree...in Colorado. Must be a new record for a flyaway.

 

[Viper Pilot]

WoW! Very interesting!

 

[licensed pilot]

Found in a tree...in Colorado. Must be a new record for a flyaway.

Apparently it was just trying to get home, but pulled a "wrong way Corrigan"
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Army’s missing drone is found in tree in Colorado

ASSOCIATED PRESS

DENVER - An Army drone that disappeared on a training flight in southern Arizona has been found hundreds of miles away in Colorado, and the military is trying to figure out how it got there.

Officials at Fort Huachuca say a hiker found the $1.5 million Shadow drone stuck in a tree Thursday. Officials couldn’t immediately say where in Colorado it was found. It was missing a wing.

Soldiers lost contact with the drone at Fort Huachuca nine days earlier. A search failed to find it, and the Army concluded it probably crashed and disintegrated in the area.

Officials say the drone is capable of flying for eight or nine hours.

Soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state had gone to the Arizona post to train with the aircraft.

 

[NickU]

They were using DJI go 3.1.2 on an Android ground station and hadn't realised the home point was a bit out

 

[licensed pilot]

LOL, probably just completed the latest DJI software update

 

[NickU]

Jeez, don't go there... Mr Bean with a DJI Quad doesn't bear thinking about . In fact, maybe we should just blame him for all the airprox reports

 

[AeroMirage]

So then this statement is slightly incorrect, "The drone has an endurance of about nine hours and can fly a distance of about 77 miles."
In nine hours it could (and did) certainly cover more ground than 77 miles. Perhaps the 77 miles refers to the distance of the controller signal on whatever frequency or satellite link it operates with. Again, they need a tracking device of some sort.

 

[licensed pilot]

So then this statement is slightly incorrect, "The drone has an endurance of about nine hours and can fly a distance of about 77 miles."
In nine hours it could (and did) certainly cover more ground than 77 miles. Perhaps the 77 miles refers to the distance of the controller signal on whatever frequency or satellite link it operates with. Again, they need a tracking device of some sort.

Guess Trackimo is out of the Army's budget?

 

[AeroMirage]

Somebody is hiding something. I refuse to believe the Army doesn't have radar tracking or some other monitor of these flights.
"Soldiers lost contact with the drone at Fort Huachuca nine days earlier. A search failed to find it, and the Army concluded it probably crashed and disintegrated in the area." C'mon now!! Who's fooling who??
My BS detector is beeping steadily on this one!!

 

[William Gaddy]

That whole crew is going to be on permanent KP...

 

[William Gaddy]

Yeah, a six hundred mile flyaway. That's simply outstanding. They weren't even searching in the right STATE.

 

[Katarinaconnors]

Trumps first raid got an Osprey crashed $20 billion or more and intentially destroyed because our pilots havent learned that sand obstructs vision.... wonder how many hungry and sick people that would have helped. Possibly if we spent on helping and less on killing we might be respected and not hated.

 

[wfh222]

Trumps first raid got an Osprey crashed $20 billion or more and intentially destroyed because our pilots havent learned that sand obstructs vision.... wonder how many hungry and sick people that would have helped. Possibly if we spent on helping and less on killing we might be respected and not hated.

maybe hes trying to protect us obama was not

 

[William Gaddy]

Trumps first raid got an Osprey crashed $20 billion or more and intentially destroyed because our pilots havent learned that sand obstructs vision.... wonder how many hungry and sick people that would have helped. Possibly if we spent on helping and less on killing we might be respected and not hated.

Many military craft operating in sandy environments are equipped with infrared lidar to give pilots a clear line of sight, even in brownout conditions. I know Apaches are, not sure about Ospreys though...

 

[licensed pilot]

Trumps first raid got an Osprey crashed $20 billion or more and intentially destroyed because our pilots havent learned that sand obstructs vision.... wonder how many hungry and sick people that would have helped. Possibly if we spent on helping and less on killing we might be respected and not hated.

 

[wfh222]

ITS THE TRUTH