maclean156
lvl.2
United Kingdom
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Hi, thought I would share what happened to me today.
Was out flying, had a great time and then decided to walk the mile back to the car. Decided I didn't want to carry inspire back to car so thought I would fly it back. So there I was happily walking back with inspire about 10 feet in front of me and 20 feet off the ground. Nearing the car the app told me I was getting low on battery but I ignored it as I would be at car in 5 minutes. Near car app told me critically low and will go into go home in a few seconds. So decided to land it. Inspire got to within 2 ft from ground when suddenly went into go home mode and climbed to 200 ft ( I set that earlier) and then headed to home ( from where I started walking back)....fast.
I thought...."bugger" and then went into fully fledged panic mode. Don't know why, but decided to press any button or stick to gain control back......no luck. But what I did manage to do was turn the motors off.......what was I thinking? So I just stayed calm and watch my inspire fall 200 feet......like a rock. Walked in the general direction of its crash but it had fell beyond a wall of bushes, forced my way through them and found my inspire hanging 2ft off the ground in a bush, no damage whatsoever, the camera vibrating board thing came off and had camera attached to it, popped it back on and all good, boy was I lucky.
Must remember if I'm walking along to set home point as where aircraft is and land when first battery warning.......scared me to death. By the way, I'm new to drones and I only fly in the middle of nowhere so the only things that are hurt are my inspire and pride. |
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