Picanoc Jack
First Officer
Flight distance : 10326581 ft
Canada
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A few days ago while on vacation at my cottage in NS I had my first experience with what happens when coming into a NFZ, these two little kids happen to somehow get away from their Mom and float away on their floaties and taken away by the high tide, 911 were called, and I was trying to get anyone with a boat to get them, some firemen showed up but the rescue boat still had to come from the town, meanwhile the firemen had ask me to fly to the kids to find out if they were ok, got the drone ready to fly out, I didn't record the flight as the only thing that they wanted was a visual, the sun was bright so visual on my Ipad was terrible, but all of a sudden the screen went black, could not get anything on my screen, I hit the RTH button and the beeping sound came on but nothing else, I figured that my drone ended up in the Nortumberland Strait, then my wife said that she heard the drone, what a relief, as it turns out what had happen was that where I am situated there is no restrictions whatsoever, but directly across the open waters to the other point there is a very small airport and since I never use the map when flying I never seen that a NFZ that appears if I was to increase the map screen, I did check for the warnings that show up on my app but there was nothing except that I had activated my RTH. Would I be right in thinking that since I was starting to enter a NFZ the complete system shut down and sent my droBTW my altitude was 19 meters.
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