gtsdart
lvl.1
Flight distance : 19879 ft
United States
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I was very happy to see my Mavic 2 Zoom instantly recover from my dumb ass mistake and save its self and my day as well. As has been noted, the RE goggles are expensive toys that have very low range and serve no purpose other than to drain my wallet!
Sunday at the lake I was learning the modes and capabilities of the Mavic and found that it didnt come close to 5 miles or 7 kilometers before signal was lost with the transmitter alone and RTH at least kickes in at about 2 and one half miles. The goggles have at best 1000 ft range. Maybe if I go some place where I can maintain line of sight with no trees and such in the way, it will do better. I'm getting away from the point of my post, which is while I was playing with the flight modes in the goggles "head tracking is so cool" I managed to cause the Mavic to rise off the trailer I had it sitting on under a big Live Oak. Been flying off it all day cause the Mavic's camera is so low it will touch the ground if the surface is not level and give you a gimbal warning.I lifted the junk goggles and the Mavic hit the lowest branches of the tree and both right side props sheard leaves big!
My heart sank in that millisecond as the Mavic fell to Earth. It would have hit the side of the trailer and really tore it up, but that Mavic 2 zoom only dropped about one foot and it was upside down and sideways, then instantly flipped its self over and turned its self around to resume the last position it was in before I got stupid. This all happened in less than one second after hitting the tree branch, it went to a perfect hover and sat there looking cool!
Not one scratch on the props which as I said sheared leaves that went flying! I have to give the Mavic huge points for saving its self and being smarter than I was,"no big feat".
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