Crashed my new Mavic Air 2 on small island in lake in Montreal

Shismo · Nov 29, 2020

Thanks you all for your inputs and analyses.

Zbip57 · Nov 30, 2020

I'm itching to come help you out, but I'm a couple of hours drive away just outside Ottawa. My boat is winterized and stored away for the winter. If it was summer now, I could just bring my canoe. But the risk of dumping and going for a swim (gulp) in the St.Lawrence River at this time of year is unappealing. The weather is lousy all this week too, with high winds and rain. Really not ideal canoeing weather.

Shismo · Dec 1, 2020

Shismo · Dec 1, 2020

Zbip57 said:
I'm itching to come help you out, but I'm a couple of hours drive away just outside Ottawa. My boat is winterized and stored away for the winter. If it was summer now, I could just bring my canoe. But the risk of dumping and going for a swim (gulp) in the St.Lawrence River at this time of year is unappealing. The weather is lousy all this week too, with high winds and rain. Really not ideal canoeing weather.

Thank you for the thought - I don’t blame you. A bit of luck today - I found a two man crew with a boat who will go out tomorrow to attempt to retrieve it.
The new MA2 arrived today. I’m planning to fly it over the rescue mission tomorrow to capture success or failure. ?
This is one cool video! How did you do that? You should enter a film competition.

Zbip57 · Dec 1, 2020

Shismo said:
Thank you for the thought - I don’t blame you. A bit of luck today - I found a two man crew with a boat who will go out tomorrow to attempt to retrieve it.
The new MA2 arrived today. I’m planning to fly it over the rescue mission tomorrow to capture success or failure. ?
This is one cool video! How did you do that? You should enter a film competition.

Phew. I'm so relieved to hear you found someone to help you. I was actually considering loading up the canoe today, but my wife thinks I'm nuts.

I have a (much) longer 10-minute version of that canoeing video. It's shot using an Insta360 One camera which has two fisheye lenses. Between the two lenses the camera captures a complete 360° spherical view. It digitally removes the long selfie stick and the camera itself from the recorded view.

I used it on my R/C model schooner too.

Shismo · Dec 1, 2020

Zbip57 said:
Phew. I'm so relieved to hear you found someone to help you. I was actually considering loading up the canoe today, but my wife thinks I'm nuts.

I have a (much) longer 10-minute version of that canoeing video. It's shot using an Insta360 One camera which has two fisheye lenses. Between the two lenses the camera captures a complete 360° spherical view. It digitally removes the long selfie stick and the camera itself from the recorded view.

I used it on my R/C model schooner too.

Thank you. Your wife is wise. I’m just as far if you ever need help with a recovery; my wife says I can go to help. ?

Shismo · Dec 1, 2020

Zbip57 said:
Phew. I'm so relieved to hear you found someone to help you. I was actually considering loading up the canoe today, but my wife thinks I'm nuts.

I have a (much) longer 10-minute version of that canoeing video. It's shot using an Insta360 One camera which has two fisheye lenses. Between the two lenses the camera captures a complete 360° spherical view. It digitally removes the long selfie stick and the camera itself from the recorded view.

I used it on my R/C model schooner too.

Those videos are amazing! I’ll look it up.

Dmascot · Dec 1, 2020

I would use a kayak

Dmascot · Dec 1, 2020

Beautiful area

FlyingFilmmaker · Dec 1, 2020

Wow sorry about your crash, interested to see how this comes out. I'm pretty careful to always look where I'm going in the drone camera when I'm far away, but I've made plenty of other mistakes.

Shismo · Dec 1, 2020

DroneFilmmaker said:
Wow sorry about your crash, interested to see how this comes out. I'm pretty careful to always look where I'm going in the drone camera when I'm far away, but I've made plenty of other mistakes.

Thanks. My first of many. All’s well that ends well. I’ll be posting how this turns out.

Shismo · Dec 2, 2020

Shismo · Dec 2, 2020

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I couldn’t fly today as the fog was dense then rain. Kudo’s to Aldrig and Sylvain of Bobino Marina who braved the poor weather and managed to get their boat to the island. I had Zero hope 24 hrs earlier.

Motorcycle Rider · Dec 2, 2020

What a great outcome.

Scuddzy · Dec 2, 2020

Flex your Canadiana, donne a dry suit rent/borrow a canoe, If I lived a few hours closer, id come get it for you in a heartbeat. Actually what about posting a help request on a canoeing forum. Canoeist are some of the nicest people you ever met, and i think most would love to use there skills on a rescue mission, with the nice weather we've been having up till last week its quite likely you'd find a few that haven't stored there boats away for the winter and would be inclined to provide a Christmas miracle.

FlyingFilmmaker · Dec 2, 2020

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Glad you got it! Now DJI care can start working. Looking at the video I saw you were flying sideways when it crashed. That's one thing that is super easy to do! And I wouldn't even trust obstacle avoidance to prevent it.

Anyway, glad you have it back!

DanMan32 · Dec 2, 2020

DroneFilmmaker said:
Glad you got it! Now DJI care can start working. Looking at the video I saw you were flying sideways when it crashed. That's one thing that is super easy to do! And I wouldn't even trust obstacle avoidance to prevent it.

Anyway, glad you have it back!

Side OA sensors aren't active in normal flight. Only in tripod and activetrack modes.

Shismo · Dec 2, 2020

DroneFilmmaker said:
Glad you got it! Now DJI care can start working. Looking at the video I saw you were flying sideways when it crashed. That's one thing that is super easy to do! And I wouldn't even trust obstacle avoidance to prevent it.

Anyway, glad you have it back!tj

Scuddzy said:
Flex your Canadiana, donne a dry suit rent/borrow a canoe, If I lived a few hours closer, id come get it for you in a heartbeat. Actually what about posting a help request on a canoeing forum. Canoeist are some of the nicest people you ever met, and i think most would love to use there skills on a rescue mission, with the nice weather we've been having up till last week its quite likely you'd find a few that haven't stored there boats away for the winter and would be inclined to provide a Christmas miracle.

Hello Neighbour! Thank you. The salvage was successful ?Sse the video of its crash moment.