With all of my haphazard ways, I thought this day would be much sooner- but it finally happened-- I crashed my drone. The story goes as follows: There was a dead owl in a tree behind our school and it was kind of dangling there- like a flag- So we decided it was best course of action was to remove it. We couldn't shake it out of the tree, for the tree was too large. We couldn't get a rock up that high, for the tree was much too tall. So we decided to take some wool yarn and attach it to the base of my drone, and wrap it around the flimsy stick that was holding up the great raptor. I managed to wrap the yarn around the stick, but as I was descending- about halfway down, the yarn got sucked into my propellers and took her down! There she flailed there, dangling by the flimsy stick just four meters off the ground. The spool end of the rope was jerked from its position in my school teachers hand and whisked off into a bush, slightly too high for us to reach. This rendered my drone at the mercy of nature, as it dangled from the tree. I sat below the drone in hopes of catching it, all the while laughing at our plight. Eventually the rope was reclaimed after much avail, but was we were lowering the drone to the ground the stick atop snapped and down went my drone- 3 meters give or take, crashing cataclysmically into the soft ground. At first it looked fine, the LED cover was popped off, but otherwise I thought it was fine. I get out of the bush and start tearing down the drone, when I realize that the motor arm had cracked. Right where the motor meets the arm. Even though it cracked I am still shocked as to how strong this little drone actually is! Still flies, even though it has the crack in the motor arm, however I have grounded it of course until I can get it repaired, I am genuinely shocked I didn't even scratch any of the propellers! I go through them like crazy, I always seem to crack the propellor blades when I brush up against something. But again, this is my first serious crash- I cannot complain. Still totally worth it! I however, regret using Squaretrade protection as my warranty, I should have gone OEM with the DJI refresh thing, makes the warranty process so much more streamline. You what the worst part about this is? We never got the bloody owl corpes out of the tree!
Anyway- heed be my warning- Fly safe, and probably go DJI refresh instead of aftermarket warranties.
Samuel Bona
Offnote the drones name is "Just read the instructions" Akin to Elon Musk's Droneships. Just a funny little tidbit.
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