I hit a power line with my Air 3S!

[Puppy59]

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Flying my Air 3S trying to get a rotation shot of a multi storey car park that's under construction. I could see the cables and I thought I'd cleared them, but didn't realise that the were running diagonally, so when I started my move to the right, I could see I was in amongst the cables, so I panicked tried to go up, and hit one of them.
Only damage was a crack in one prop... lesson learned, avoid power cables

 

[Droning on and on...]

Very lucky!

 

[Puppy59]

Extremely, thought the drone was a goner!

 

[mavic3usa]

Glad everything worked out, don't want to turn off the lights in the region.

So I gotta ask, what is the reason for wanting to fly so low? Once I see there are power lines in the area, I go above them and I make them my minimum....period. Is there a reason why you need to fly that low even away from the power lines? I'm not seeing anything in the area that needs your drone to be close up to. Unless you're flying an FPV drone.....

 

[Puppy59]

I flew over the car park a few months ago, and just wanted to check how the construction was progressing. Last time I flew around the other side, so I wanted to fly around this side.
I won't make that mistake again... I mean fly near any power lines!

 

[Daniel Mclean]

Extremely lucky!

 

[Puppy59]

Cheers, I know I am a lucky boy! I posted this to point out my stupidity, and hopefully prevent someone from making the same mistake!