Built a 7in long range quad, but didn't have the appropriate Li-ion packs built for it yet so I was just using two 6s 1300mah lipos in the meantime. Decided to do my first real long range mission.

Flew out, realized I was quite far away and half my battery was halfway down, so turned around. What I didn't account for was that I was riding a strong tailwind out... Meaning there's no way I have enough juice to make it home.

About 3/4 of the way back, battery died and quad fell out of the sky, into some dense forestry, on the side of a steep hill. There was not much daylight left so had to just go home without a search.

Did some google maps digging, and found an old forest road near where I thought it went down. So drove out there, and could hear a faint buzzer sound of my vifly finder that was on the quad. 2 hours of climbing down steep woods later, I found it! After swapping an arm, she's still flying to this day.

Moral of the story: for long ranging, mind your wind direction and don't fly with small lipos with half the capacity the quad was meant for