Drone Lake Rescue

[Coffeycake]

southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) Tweeted:
Which director would be most likely to use a shot like this? De Palma? Hitchcock? https://t.co/WaRfIL3qxV

https://twitter.com/x/status/1160234993593016320

 

[Thomas B]

Nice save... must have been a forced landing due to flying the battery to low or a NFZ entry.

 

[Coffeycake]

I don’t know this person. It was sent to me on Twitter by a friend who knew I went to drone school. I thought it was awesome. Not sure where it was filmed.

 

[T9Creative]

Nice save... must have been a forced landing due to flying the battery to low or a NFZ entry.

The tweet says it was a low battery, if that's the case... should have landed well before this happened, that's unfortunate. (But agree, nice save)

 

[LeRoytheBoy]

Plays center field for the NY Yankees.

 

[Marco Cantieni]

I once had a force landing experience due to low battery below 5% with a still established. connection. After I've fishing the bird out of the water and have dried it, I've simulated the force landing later on over dry ground. I was very surprised that even when the bird has entered the force landing mode it stays full maneuverable. Even pushing the stick up let bird climb again. If I've known this before I could have saved my bird in the previous incident.

 

[TyCool]

I bet he’s heart was beating fast ha ha
Brilliant save

 

[passedpawn]

Hmm, operator kept camera on swimmer. Skeptic in me wonders how far people will go for "likes"...

Even so, it's an impressive feat.

 

[Drgnfli]

I don't understand why droners "push it" to that limit. Don't they read or watch the videos telling you that flying against the wind on RTH might not make it home? It must be nice to be rich...

 

[Marco Cantieni]

I don't understand why droners "push it" to that limit.

In my case I was overwhelmed of the great view of the swiss alps. I recognized I had 40% battery left. Smart RTH has not reminded me yet to come home immediatelly so I stayed calm but started my flight home. With 350m distance and 120m height the situation appeared under control. Even while decending the bird stayed below 5 km/h due a severe wind gust. 4 Minutes later the battery was down to 5% and still 80m to go. Force landing kicked in and the bird decended without any stick input. I did not realise I still had the chance to couteract the force landing by pushing the stick up. If I would have known that I would have saved my bird.