Crashed into another drone! Gimbal & arm repair recommendations? UK

KateFly · May 5, 2019

Yesterday I descended into another drone, lost half a propeller, began a rapid descent before crashing into a field.

Only been flying a month and was in the air along with a friend's mavic pro taking pictures of each other's drones. Doing an ariel view shot, and stupidly went lower instead of zooming in so sat on his Mavic.... I lost half a propeller, didn't respond to controller inputs so i just held it down and it crash landed a few hundred meters away to the left in a grassy farmers field. Gimbal movement was totally erratic

I've replaced 3 of the propelers. Gimbal is totally ripped off. And the back arm is cracked off. Also the casing on the other back arm is not in line... See pics below.

For now I've glued the snapped back arm so i Can fold it back up.

How do i get this repaired? I havent got insurance

dronedoctor or TFix? I'm in North-west England.

How much would it roughly cost?

Any advice appreciated. Thanks.

KateFly · May 5, 2019

Ping^Spike · May 5, 2019

Ouch

KateFly said:
How do i get this repaired? I havent got insurance dronedoctor or TFix? I'm in North-west England.

This firm are rated highly by quite a few people on the Grey Arrows Drone Club: Repairs for all DJI Phantom and Mavic Drones | AB Repair UK (they repair Mavics too)

DroneDoctor seems to have mixed reviews?

KateFly · May 6, 2019

Thanks Ping^Spike

Got in touch with Scott from AB and they are going to sort it

GeekEcosse · Oct 2, 2019

How much did it cost?

MAvic_South_Oz · Oct 2, 2019

What about the missing info from the story, was there any / much damage to the other MP craft, the aircraft the OP crashed into ?

Let's hope the OP did look after any repair costs to other fliers drone too, and now left stick down and zoom button functions are under control.

KateFly · Oct 2, 2019

GeekEcosse said:
How much did it cost?

£209

KateFly · Oct 2, 2019

MAvic_South_Oz said:
What about the missing info from the story, was there any / much damage to the other MP craft, the aircraft the OP crashed into ?

Let's hope the OP did look after any repair costs to other fliers drone too, and now left stick down and zoom button functions are under control.

Thankfully not much! He had hairline splits/cracks in a few propellers which wasnt expensive to replace.
Both got some good pics of our drones mid-flight though. I wont be flying in close proximity to another drone gain tho!

MAvic_South_Oz · Oct 2, 2019

KateFly said:
Thankfully not much! He had hairline splits/cracks in a few propellers which wasnt expensive to replace.
Both got some good pics of our drones mid-flight though. I wont be flying in close proximity to another drone gain tho!

Good to hear.
Sounds like the craft descending might be worse off in such a case, likely your camera had a hit on one of the other crafts' prop.

Obviously yours is all good now . . . re cost, I was thinking it through in my head last night and thought 200 - 250 pounds, based on my once ever crash and losing the camera props, and some minor cosmetic damage to a battery.

I don't fly near others since my son and I flew together for the first (and last) time . . . well at least near the other operator on the ground.
It was some sort of signal interference, affected his P4, my MP wasn't bothered, but he lost input at close range and it came down uncontrolled, only ended up breaking a prop.
We were only a few metres apart, seems to be ok if at least 10m distant.
Funny though, when this comes up on threads here many say they fly 10 or 20 drones in close proximity without issues.

HerManSoft · Oct 5, 2019

KateFly said:
Yesterday I descended into another drone, lost half a propeller, began a rapid descent before crashing into a field.

Only been flying a month and was in the air along with a friend's mavic pro taking pictures of each other's drones. Doing an ariel view shot, and stupidly went lower instead of zooming in so sat on his Mavic.... I lost half a propeller, didn't respond to controller inputs so i just held it down and it crash landed a few hundred meters away to the left in a grassy farmers field. Gimbal movement was totally erratic

I've replaced 3 of the propelers. Gimbal is totally ripped off. And the back arm is cracked off. Also the casing on the other back arm is not in line... See pics below.

For now I've glued the snapped back arm so i Can fold it back up.

How do i get this repaired? I havent got insurance dronedoctor or TFix? I'm in North-west England.

How much would it roughly cost?

Any advice appreciated. Thanks.