I haven’t made enough flights to have that rush of fear yet, although I know at some point I will. What was yours?
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It's not a rush really more like panic and happens fast normally.
The first was 5 years ago watching my FC40 autoland cause the app crashed and i had it set to hover(was a noob then) and couldn't find it in a cut over. Looked everyday several hours four about 1 month and never found it but wife did 3 months later when our pond got low and there it was. She came in with it all green and slimy.
I had got a P2V though after a week of searching to help look for it (what i told her ) and had crashed that thing several times already. Not bad but still.
Now since then i have crashed about all i have had for different reasons but all were UE.
My second MP and this M2P i still fly a lot like i stole em but haven't crashed them .
Yet
Oh and that 40 i striped it and cleaned it all up and sold all the parts including the shell and almost got in parts what i paid for it on e bay.
My very first drone flight I hovered about 50 ft at my friends house and a hawk carrying a snake came and whacked the drone. It went into atti mode and being brand new I lost the drone to a fly away. DJI replaced the Phantom 4 drone with a new one for me. ?
Makes me uneasy just reading about it... Btw, when RTH (and espetially when RTH and fighting wind), "Sport" mode is your friend...Well, when I first started flying these little birds, I remember having a little bit of a panic the first time I lost the video feed. That was on my Mavic Air and I was facing west and the little guy was flying south. But my first real panic attack happened just a few days ago with my Mavic Pro Platinum; I was doing great; about 3000' in front of me when I started to get high wind warnings. I still had 80% power but when I turned to come back home (I was also about 250' up) my speed went down to 4-5 mph and I was actually losing ground because the wind was pushing it. Full throttle and watching it get farther and farther away made me sit up and take notice! The wind did come up all of a sudden, so I just brought it back down to about 175' and she came back; struggling, but she came back. Landed her with 55% battery and packed it in for the day. Went inside and saw we were getting 25mph wind gusts.
been there done that...well all except for the hawk and the snake..
a really big LIKE to all the comments!