MM AIR
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Thought this might be a good place to mention my drone stuck in a tree story....
Was a nice day looking to get some follow me shots on a trail thru some trees. Got basic shot and was under some large canopy of oak trees. Now when I setup the drone it did not aquire the GPS signal and update the home point. So battery got low and was about to land it and heard drone say returning home! Of course it was set to return home hight of 45 feet. I was scrabling to force it down, but just went straignt up into moss hanging from trees. Tree was too steep to climb and tried to throw bike chain to knock it free as it was dangling from moss. It was about 40 feet up in the air over the trail very high! Of course the chain got stuck in the tree too. Had to re-group and visit Home Depot.
Solution:
Got paint poll with 3x8=24 extention and friut picker another 12ft. Figured this would be plenty long, duck taped together. Wow its hard to control a poll that long took a while but kocked it down. Had wife catch but she patially missed but still works! Returned the poll and picker to HD.
Lesson:
LAND when battery is low and ALLWAYS ensure home position is updated. If not turn return to home off and fly close by. IE follow me. At least this lesson was just a waste of time!
Feel free to share you stupid tree stories.
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