Recent content by KIGR

The official opening of KI Airport by the then Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull. I was contracted to do the external and internal timber cladding and decking. During the build I purchased the Mavic Pro and was asked to provide some footage... this is the result.

This is a collection of videos I’ve done with a combination of my mavic pro/osmo/iPhone 8 plus

Entry to our 3 km driveway and arrival at our tourist accommodation

The only way loosing a prop could come into play would be if there was a catastrophic failure via an impact of some sort and there was nothing around that I could see to do that although I didn’t have eyes on the mp at the time of failure. I only caught sight of it during its descent. It could...

I replaced the ribbon and the gimbal was working ok but with a camera sensor error resulting in no video image. I’m waiting on a new video cable and ribbon to attempt a repair of the camera.

Terminal velocity I reckon... near vertical descent?

Thanks msinger, Yes, I did input the Lat and Long in the Maps app on my phone but it still took me 12 hours to find it and in the end I was surprised at how accurate the data was. If i was more trusting I could have saved a lot of time concentrating in a tighter search area. Only one of the...

Thank you Meta4, You were pretty spot on with your crash location. I know it was pretty stupid taking off with low batteries but it was only going to be a 90 sec flight... This is the last screen shot as the drone disconnected showing battery at 50%. I couldn't find the battery around the crash...

Thanks for the responses and input.., Well after about 12 hours in total looking for a needle in a hay stack and just when I was going to call it a day, I eventually almost accidently found it almost exactly where it said it would be! Very frustrating but glad I found it.

Well it finally happened... My Mavic Pro fell out of the Sky after about 45 seconds of flight. It would be nice to know what happened but more importantly, I'd like to be able to find it! I've spent hours searching in the area as shown in the screen shot and beyond to no avail. The flight was...

In general terms AGL means above ground level relative to the ground level at your location. General aviation doesn’t allow aircraft to descend below 500 feet agl and drones are limited to 400 feet agl to avoid conflict. Of course other regulations come into effect around airports and controlled...

How about the local fire brigade... tell them you have a good training exercise for them!

I thought i'd reply to let you know how I got on... It took a couple of weeks for the parts to arrive ( absorption plate and ribbon) and so I got started on the repair and changed the plate. I chose not to do the ribbon as the original looked OK. I put it all back together and on start up the...

Thanks for your response... The only other damage I noticed was a chip in a blade and I have a spare for that. I haven't been keen to turn it on since the crash so haven't seen any error messages as yet. Unfortunately I wont be able to get to it for a couple of days so thought I would get ahead...

After 6 months of incident free flying I eventually crashed... After a couple of hours filming and getting close to completing my task I got a little impatient and tried to beat an automatic door and clipped a prop on the edge of the door flipping the mavic and crashing from a height of 4ft onto...