unfortunately, I’ve experienced every FPV pilot’s worst nightmare. I bought a Chimera7 Pro V2 HD, and on its very first flight, I crashed it twice within 10 minutes near a lake and bridge. It started raining, so I had to leave. The next day, I recalibrated the Tango 2 Pro joysticks, but something went wrong with the calibration, causing the controls to misalign and preventing the Chimera from arming its motors.
That led me into nearly two weeks of learning, troubleshooting, and testing everything—fixing the endpoints, midpoints in Betaflight, creating models in the Tango, and configuring GPS, fail-safe, and more. Countless hours of effort, all while eager to fly but barely getting time to practice in the simulator due to the controller’s miscalibration.
Yesterday, after finally solving the issue, I armed the motors in my room, and without a second thought, I went out to test everything. Sadly, my Chimera decided to say “bye-bye.” I lost connection about 3 km away. I hit the fail-safe button, hoping it would return, waited 10-15 minutes—nothing. I spent the whole day yesterday and today walking across private fields and farmlands, soaked in water and horse manure, searching the last known coordinates.
It’s been a horrible experience, and now I’m thinking about buying another Chimera because I truly want to master this and fly long-range. The silver lining is that this disaster has taught me so much—before this, I had only flown DJI Mavic drones, which are an entirely different experience.
My biggest regret is not thinking of taking the GPS tracker off my motorcycle and attaching it to the drone. That’s my recommendation to all FPV pilots—use a GPS tracker. If your battery dies, you can’t use beepers or lights to help find your drone, and if it crashes somewhere out of sight, like mine did in a maze of private fields and woods, it’s incredibly difficult to recover.
If anyone has any advice on how I could track down my drone using the GPS coordinates, I’d appreciate any tips, though I’ve pretty much lost hope at this point.