 and make a reactor. And we are out at this beautiful location of Banda. Well, for us, drone pilot's is actually a beautiful place because there's so much awesome stuff to fly here, but there's also so many places that you can crash and maybe have a little bit of a hard time finding your drone. Yeah, and sometimes your battery gets unplugged and you have no way to find your quad. That's when you're gonna have the hardest time finding a crashed drone because you can't turn on your beeper, you can't see through your goggles. This resulted in some serious drone search missions where we're wading through grass with metal detectors trying to find something. So companies have kind of thought like this might happen. So they've made a beeper that has a battery attached to it. So when your battery unplugged, it'll still beep. Yeah, this is the ViFly Finder 2. It has its own built-in battery and that battery will power the system and after a few seconds of not having power, then it starts to beep on its own. Yeah, which sounds like a really good idea. It sounds like a really good idea until you have to unplug your drone and then it starts beeping and you're like, what is that noise? And everyone at the fly feels like manicure. These things are so annoying. What usually happens to me is it gets ripped off and thrown in the trash because it's annoying. Yeah, it's so annoying because it adds an extra step to unplugging your quad. So we're always looking for a different way that we might be able to find our drones when the battery comes unplugged. It doesn't have so many obnoxious trade-offs and I was going through Best Buy one time and I saw the Apple AirTag. These things were initially invented to find your lost keys, right? You lost your keys. You can say, Siri, where are my keys? Find it, Siri. Oh, look, I got the arrow. I got the arrow. I got the arrow. There they are, right where I threw them dramatically. I mean, to be fair, there's a company that made this technology way before Apple called Tile. Right, I think the Bluetooth that Apple is using now has better range. It can also locate based on anyone else's Apple device. Oh, you could just do it with an Apple iPhone. Anyone that has an Apple, iPhone, iPad, whatever, if they walk by it, they don't need to have like some third-party app installed. Yeah, that's way better. It'll pin you. Apple always knows where you are. And I love it. I don't need privacy. I need to find my truck keys, okay? We're gonna put this to the test. We're gonna see, is an AirTag actually a good way to find your drone? Can it compete with the ViFly buzzer? So we got two teams of two here, and one team is gonna crash a drone somewhere, and the other team is gonna have to use one of the tools to try to find that drone. One of you guys is gonna fly a drone, crash it somewhere with my AirTag installed, and Mako and I are gonna race to try and find it. We're not gonna have any idea where it is. We're gonna crash one of your drones with the ViFly buzzer installed, and you guys are gonna try and use that to find out where it is. What do you do? Those props are fine. What do you mean you gotta change them? I gotta change my props. These are fine. Let's just fly these. I need props, different props. Why does he change their props? He's gonna put gray props on. What? As camouflage as that can be, better. So Sean's got the drone already, no batteries trapped, he's got some Velcro on either side. We're gonna stick it on. Tricks in there, she's gonna crash. Batteries gone. Hopefully this thing makes some noise and we can find it. It's not. It's not throwing things at me. Your drone's gonna be gone forever. Oh yeah it is. Oh yeah. Okay. That's loud. That is so loud. That's so much louder than the AirTag. Oh my God, make it stop. I'm already so mad about it. To make it stop, one way to do it is to plug the battery and unplug it really quickly. So like this, and then it's done. Nope, nope, it's still beeping. Plug it for like one Mississippi, two Mississippi. Unclog. Okay. Oh my God, how do you make it stop? Tructions. All right, you gotta push the button. Okay. There you go. Every time. That's annoying, isn't it? The by-fly buzzer on it, which makes such loud, obnoxious beeps, which makes it easy to find. So all we have to do is prevent them from hearing it. Exactly. It is very loud. So we need a place that is maybe far away and that can muffle the sound. And you know this place better than I do. So I'm gonna rely on you watching me fly and kind of... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ready? I mean, it's pretty good. Yeah. Okay, I'm gonna crash. How are you gonna crash? I don't know. How should I crash? I think you have to bounce on something. Yeah, I think you need to like hit something hard to get that battery to it, Jack. Okay. And then, but you want it to fling into a tree so we're just gonna hope it. Okay, this is gonna be tough to get into the wall. Actually, half is correct, say. I feel like it's so easy for us to crash on a daily basis, but now we're like... Like trying to crash? I froze. I don't know if it actually... All right, if it froze, the battery's in part. Okay. All right, we're gonna get ready. The time starts. Three, two, one, go! Go, go, go, go, go! All right, go! Let's go, let's go, let's go. Oh, we gotta... Okay. We're gonna check in here first. All right, everyone, wait, let's just be quietly fast, everyone. Okay, nothing. I hear it, it's out here. Right here? It's about two minutes. They ain't got it yet. They ain't got it. Yep, I hear it. It's right over here. All right, so I see they're playing dirty. They're playing dirty. You wanna get up there? That's okay, I am team player here. Thank you, Sean. They got the quad. Sean's a real team player. Yeah, you see those weeds over there, the really tall ones? Go crash over there. That's what he said. I know he did. I'll crash mine like a bush over there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I make them climb through the stuff. I mean, it's my drone. There you go. Do we have to get back to them for the time? You gotta even get back to the truck. What? Time doesn't stop, so you can get back to the truck. Nobody gave us these tools. Stop. Four minutes to get back to the truck in seconds. You make up the rules as you go, I swear. Yeah. Four minutes to get back to the truck in seconds. Cheater, cheater. Four minutes to 40 seconds. That's the official time. You know that whole story about a bunny and a turtle? And the bunny stopped to frag? That's you. That was a hair. Hair is the difference. So now you guys are gonna fly this drone with our air tag and we'll see how quickly we can find that. They're gonna expect us to put it in the grass because we just talked about it, right? So we're gonna put it all the way in the back. We didn't even go upstairs. All the way upstairs in the corner. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna like take off and like full throttle over there so they hear the quad go way over there but then I'm gonna go around the back and I can go through that back door over there. Yeah, and then come in and go all the way over there. Second floor is hard to get to as well because there's a bunch of water. All right, here we go. Oh, man, it's getting quiet. Must be in the back room now. So we go right in the corner. All right, is it crashed? Go knock, go knock, yeah. All right, here we go. All right, here we go. See, it still says it's here. It does? It still says it's backed by the truck so it didn't follow it as it was. I mean, I don't know how whatever track it as it flew but yeah, I'm just gonna do find. Oh no, that's my truck. How do I find my drone? Find my drone. Find. Oh yeah, see, it says I hasn't seen it in two minutes. Searching for signal. We got nothing. We got nothing. Oh God. Okay, hold on, hold on. They're not gonna do exactly what we did, right? If they get past three minutes, then realistically, I think we won. Yeah, if they get past four minutes, we definitely won. Come on. Come on, iPhone. Oh no, low battery. Oh no. I wish we could split up but like it can only be paired to my phone. Although, oh my God, if you had an iPhone, you could run around and it would still ping me. Do you have your iPhone on you? No, he's using the first iPhone. No! I'm trying to reverse engineer how smart they might be. We were like, all we have is sound so we tried to muffle the sound with the bush. If they were smart, they would try to block the Bluetooth signal so they'd like fast to the dumpster, maybe? Yeah. There's a lot. Three minutes already. Oh, you got this. Yeah. We're cheating, we still won. Even with your cheating, we still won. What? I hear something. Oh my God, it's the ESC beeper. Is the ESC beeper still working? They didn't get the battery to disconnect. Oh, that's why this, okay. Okay. You're it. Yeah. Is it there? Oh, wait, it's connected. I mean, I hear it. Is it on the other side of the wall? Yeah. It's either up there? It's up in there. I mean, you can go outside or... I don't know. I do that outside. Dude, I don't know though. The ESC beeper hadn't gone on. Shoot. I mean, if you really have no clue where to, you have to be really close to it. I'm still, I still got nothing. I can't turn on my flash. Connected. 12 feet, 11. Now I got my arrow, which is good because I can't see anything. Yeah. I can't, it's so dark in here. More light required. Yep, found it. We got it. All right, let's get it back to the... That's fine. You got the truck to the time to go, man. What are you walking? It felt like an eternity. Wow. Did it actually take you to the right spot? Like when you got semi-close? The ESC beeper went off. I told him, I was like, it's 10 minutes, the ESC beepers going off now. Dude, we had to be so close to it. We had to be so close for it to connect. And then I didn't realize it actually uses, like through the camera, when it got in the dark, it said more light required. So I mean, I was right on top of it at that point anyway, but like, I guess it actually looks through the camera to like try it. Oh my gosh. That is weird. So we actually heard the beeper from the first floor. Oh my gosh. It made it to the corner and I'm like, it's up there. When you're going in with just having no clue where the quad is, I hate to say it, but the loud, annoying beeps, I mean, that's what saved us. And clearly it helps you guys get it real quick. Yeah. So all this fancy technology doesn't always help. Works for some stuff, but it doesn't work for drones. So are they still annoying? Yes, they're so annoying, but like there's no question that it's the best option. If your battery is going to come just connected, you have this baby, this loud, horrible buzzer. I mean, like that's what you, I hate these things, but if you're at all concerned about crashing and ejecting your battery, you don't want to risk losing your quad. It really is a great solution. It just has all these kind of obnoxious behaviors, but like that's how you find it. I think I'm going to put someone on one of my buttons. No, don't do it, dude. I'm trying to sell stuff, dude. I'm trying to sell stuff. Just strap your battery with two battery straps and use Velcro underneath. Do it like that. It'll never come off. But if you guys really want to feel extra secure, we do have these buzzers in the store, Rotorat.com, you have a bunch of buddies. I've got a lot of my friends that use it and they swear by it and they just love it. They just got used to pushing the button when they unplugged the drone and they just don't have to deal with the beeping. I clearly love Apple products, but I don't think this really, it doesn't work for drones. I don't think it's really up to snuff for what we need to do. Thanks guys so much for watching this episode of Rotorat. If you really liked this video, make sure to hit the thumbs up button. We post videos every Monday, so hit the subscribe button so you can stay tuned to our channel. Don't forget the bell. I don't want you to miss a single one. Hit the bell. Every Monday. Guys, I'm LaDrip. I'm MakeAriacha. And I'm Let's Flyer C and we'll see you next time on Rotorat.