Sorry for making this so long. I’m a new pilot actually just made an account and I would really love some opinions from more experienced pilots because I’ve only been doing this drone stuff for about a month and most of it has been watching YouTube videos.
Hello everyone reading this, let me begin with saying I lost my drone. Well, I know exactly where it is but it’s unreachable. It’s exactly here actually: 36.393353 ,25.437452 . It’s Santorini Greece on the side of the mountain. Let me explain how it got there.
If you couldn’t tell by it’s location, I’m very new to this. I’ll share a link to the google drive with my flight records so you can see. I got the mavic air, on June 12, 2019 if I remember correctly. You can see in the flight records that my brother and I have only flown it a couple times each before I went to Greece and most of the flights were pretty basic and close quarters flights. After a few weeks in Israel I went to Greece and took the Mavic Air with me. I went to a location that seemed appropriate to capture a nice video of the sunset. I started with the normal stuff everything was okay. I did a manual take off for some reason I find it more fun to manually take off. It really was on the side of a mountain which is above the height limit allowed to fly in Greece. Without thinking I proceeded to fly my drone in the air just a couple feet from me because I was honestly petrified I was so scared of losing the drone and boom that’s what happened. After a couple seconds of it in the air I felt comfortable enough to begin moving forward down the mountain.
Once the drone was around 20-40 feet infront of me I noticed that it started going down by itself. I looked down at my screen and it said that I have passed the maximum limit allowed in this area, and it must auto land. I kind of started to panick but I thought to myself okay I can just cancel it. I tried canceling it and bring the drone up but it didn’t work. I kept clicking cancel auto landing and nothing happens and the drone would not go up.
Eventually the drone hit bushes and crashed in the side of the mountain.
if anyone could give me some feedback on this I would highly appreciate it. I’ve started a case with dji and they’re very kind and helpful. I also searched the forums a little bit and saw that this community is also very helpful. Again thank you in advance to anyone who can answer my prayers.
What do you think will end up happening?
Google drive link : Mavic Air Flight Records - Google Drive
Hello everyone reading this, let me begin with saying I lost my drone. Well, I know exactly where it is but it’s unreachable. It’s exactly here actually: 36.393353 ,25.437452 . It’s Santorini Greece on the side of the mountain. Let me explain how it got there.
If you couldn’t tell by it’s location, I’m very new to this. I’ll share a link to the google drive with my flight records so you can see. I got the mavic air, on June 12, 2019 if I remember correctly. You can see in the flight records that my brother and I have only flown it a couple times each before I went to Greece and most of the flights were pretty basic and close quarters flights. After a few weeks in Israel I went to Greece and took the Mavic Air with me. I went to a location that seemed appropriate to capture a nice video of the sunset. I started with the normal stuff everything was okay. I did a manual take off for some reason I find it more fun to manually take off. It really was on the side of a mountain which is above the height limit allowed to fly in Greece. Without thinking I proceeded to fly my drone in the air just a couple feet from me because I was honestly petrified I was so scared of losing the drone and boom that’s what happened. After a couple seconds of it in the air I felt comfortable enough to begin moving forward down the mountain.
Once the drone was around 20-40 feet infront of me I noticed that it started going down by itself. I looked down at my screen and it said that I have passed the maximum limit allowed in this area, and it must auto land. I kind of started to panick but I thought to myself okay I can just cancel it. I tried canceling it and bring the drone up but it didn’t work. I kept clicking cancel auto landing and nothing happens and the drone would not go up.
Eventually the drone hit bushes and crashed in the side of the mountain.
if anyone could give me some feedback on this I would highly appreciate it. I’ve started a case with dji and they’re very kind and helpful. I also searched the forums a little bit and saw that this community is also very helpful. Again thank you in advance to anyone who can answer my prayers.
What do you think will end up happening?
Google drive link : Mavic Air Flight Records - Google Drive
