Daroga
First Officer
Flight distance : 3517287 ft
United States
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tobias,
Sorry for your experience! That's a real bummer video but also very well produced, Thanks!
The major flaw with this crash appears to be impromptu flying. That's flying without any prior planning. There are two groups of impromptu flyers - those that have crashed and those that will crash.... The greatest flaw for remote pilots is depth perception both in visual line of sight and beyond visual range. At almost any distance, it's difficult to always know if you are in front of or behind an obstacle when flying, climbing or decending. Without minimal prior planning, you're flipping the coin with each flight -> crash or dumb luck....
Now I'm not trying to take any fun away from flying. It's just that aviation comes with risks and it's important for all of us to perform some risk assessment to configure our aircraft, the GO4 App, and to then fly to minimize these risks.
Had you planned to fly aroud that building, you could have looked at Google Earth to see that it appears to be about 125m tall. The futher building is about 30m taller. So you could have been prepared to set your RTH for 150-160m. What was your RTH?
DJI and government aviation agencies recommend remaining in visual line of sight, but more important is our antenna line of sight. Fly behind a hill, a building, a tower, etc and you will loose your connection. Only some of our IOC functions like POC or waypoints allow you to plan a mission and have the aircraft execute that mission even when antenna line of sight may be lost. But even then, you must set an appropriate RTH height.
So in the future, at least minimally plan your flights, double check your RTH and vision system settings, and know when and where you might loose your antenna line of sight. You can use use obstacle avoidance to back you up, but don't expect it to always bail you out of your pilot respnsibilities as it can be fooled....
As others have noted, the aircraft flight logs will show your settings and the details of the flight.
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