Air 2 Great Haseley Windmill

Jeremy Clark · May 22, 2021

So say a sad farewell to my Mavic Air 2. It's currently living high in a tree where it got stuck filming this beautiful windmill near Oxford. It was far too high to climb or to have any effect shaking the tree.The footage was taken from back-up's on the controller so aren't the usual 4K quality. A new one is on the way thanks to insurance. Thanks to Jess for helping me trying to retrieve it, & for filming the hand held footage. And thanks to John Alexander for permission to fly & film at the windmill

Dale D · May 23, 2021

Jeremy Clark said:
So say a sad farewell to my Mavic Air 2. It's currently living high in a tree where it got stuck filming this beautiful windmill near Oxford. It was far too high to climb or to have any effect shaking the tree.The footage was taken from back-up's on the controller so aren't the usual 4K quality. A new one is on the way thanks to insurance. Thanks to Jess for helping me trying to retrieve it, & for filming the hand held footage. And thanks to John Alexander for permission to fly & film at the windmill

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My condolences! Nice flying. Please tell me how to retrieve the footage in the controller if I ever need to do that.

Squidinc · May 23, 2021

Happens to the best… even Jeremy. Sorry for the loss, but great you have another on the way. Just love that cartoon look to reality at the start and finish.

Jeremy Clark · May 23, 2021

Squidinc said:
Happens to the best… even Jeremy. Sorry for the loss, but great you have another on the way. Just love that cartoon look to reality at the start and finish.

Thanx very much

Jeremy Clark · May 23, 2021

Dale D said:
My condolences! Nice flying. Please tell me how to retrieve the footage in the controller if I ever need to do that.

Jeremy Clark · May 23, 2021

I use a Smart Controller. For the life of me, I couldn’t get my MacBook to recognise it even using a usb connection. So instead, I put a Micro SD card in the smart controller and transferred the files to that. Then simply used a micro sd card reader to transfer the files to my Mac. They’re “preview” files so not top quality, but we’re usable

360 Guy · May 23, 2021

Did you loose the drone in one of those trees that you photographed around the windmill?
Nice video by the way, very nice.

Jeremy Clark · May 24, 2021

PANZERFAUST said:
Did you loose the drone in one of those trees that you photographed around the windmill?
Nice video by the way, very nice.

Thanks for the kind comments. Yup, the grove of fir trees near the windmill while I was doing a manual circular arc. No side sensors. I looked down briefly at the controller. Misjudged my height and distance from trees and flew sideways into them. Purely pilot error I’m sad to say and I feel a bit embarrassed. First major accident in over a year, and it was terminal ??