TBoyAZ
lvl.4
Flight distance : 31345 ft
United States
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I had a bird go after my Mavic 2 Pro already and my gut instinct was to land. After seeing how fast the bird was traveling i knew there was no way in hell i was going to make it anywhere safe to land, let alone get on the ground before he/she got there. My only option was to Sport mode and haul butt out of there. Towards the end the bird was about 20 feet from the craft and i figured well if it's going to be an impact. I pulled back hard on the stick and was going to make sure that it gets a full propping and hopefully it will fall strait down with minimal damage as possible; I was prepared to lose a new drone.
What actually happened is that i scared the bejesus out of the bird. The bird wasn't expecting a sudden decrease in speed nor a direction change which resulted in the drone starting to face him. After the bird saw the drone flare back towards him and heard the even more angrier prop sounds. he/she soon realized that it was going to go after him. He evaded me (Flying underneath and off to the left) and turned around, so i chased him for about 40 feet and then came back, landed, laughed, cleaned out my shorts, and left.
Not sure what prompted him to try to attack my drone, but figured if i am going to lose it, let's try reversing the roles and see if that makes a different, it actually did.
Now, i am not saying this is a good practice at all because it is clearly not, but all my other options were not going to result in a safe landing before the bird got there. And a Straight engine cut and drop worked for me only once. Friends said it looked like a condor or vulture of some sort. big guy indeed. Been back to the desert area many times since then and have not had a problem with any birds except for that one time. |
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