Recent content by Ianbickerton

I do each time I fly as my first MA2 lasted two weeks. Hovering at 100 met and filming, there was a click noise and the next thing the drone tumbled out of the sky into pieces. Supposedly a propellor broke( faulty manufacture) thankfully my insurance replaced the drone. Now I am nervous at any...

Hi Philius I have created the link to share the flight detail for the death flight

Hi Old Man Mavic. I have now uploaded the dat files into air data. How do i get the last flight record shared here to be reviewed? Cheers Ian

Ah ok confusion and yes exactly that with the tumble and chaos results ;-)

Many thanks for your input. I will look at the instructions on how to download the DAT file Why i said about the props stopping was because the drone was flying, in fact hovering and the sound was normal and the next moment it was in a steep decent straight to the ground but tumbling side over...

It was purely by chance that my home insurance covered drones as well but yes best insure as they are not cheap to replace ...............

Of the fourth prop you can see what I recovered about three feet away from the drone.The other half was not to be found, and yes it does power up and the insurance company have stated they are not interested in the remains. The blood you see on the blade was from my hand as the seemingly dead...

Many thanks and fortunately my insurance has covered it and my new one should be arriving on Monday

I know I had installed the props correctly and had done 3.85 hours flying time when this occurred. As a private pilot I make a habit of doing preflight checks. As for flying again only if put into a big catapult, see photos

I will do so shortly on my return. I will have to see how to download dat files. Are they the files in the "flight data Centre" Regards Ian

Cheers and thanks

I was fortunate to win a Mavic Air 2 in a competition at the beginning of the month. Thoroughly enjoying the ease of flying until yesterday when hovering at 27 meters to take a photo it suddenly tumbled to earth. With my knowledge of aircraft, I suspect maybe something damaged a propellor like...