Barrel Roll and Recovery

[combustication]

Pay no attention to the poor video quality, settings were wrong and I hadn't focused. I'm very impressed with how quickly the Mavic recovered from the branch strikes rather than tumbling down into the water. I didn't realize that the strike(s) damaged a propeller, this was flown about 4000 feet immediately after the strike. The damage to the propeller had no effect on the Mavic's flight as far as I could tell.

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Mavic flew 4000 feet with this damaged propeller with no noticeable problem.

Lesson learned, after any incident land and inspect the aircraft even if it's flying fine. Thankful I got a way with no damage to the Mavic after 2 branch strikes and flying with a damage propeller.

 

[Wombat55]

Yeah, should land immediately and inspect for damage after any abnormal incident or collision. If a propeller was damaged and chipped then there's no way of knowing that the collision might have also caused further unseen damage to the propeller which might have led to it failing completely while the Mavic was in flight. Even without a complete propeller failure, flying with a chipped, unbalanced propeller probably isn't good for the motor bearings associated with that propeller.

 

[Strafe1]

Nice recovery!