It's is a beautiful day here in Las Vegas Nevada, The sun is Shining there is light breeze of wind a perfect day for flying, and i was ready to have a blast until the biggest scare of drone life happened..... I drove out in the desert where the mountains looked awesome. Telling myself, "I'm going to get some awesome footage for my next video montage." I popped in my first battery flew out over 1500 feet took some great video, pictures, I was just a happy nothing can ruin my day. about 25 minutes or so my battery starting beeping and took my Mavic "Hank" back in to land and swap my battery. I landed check video looks awesome and decided i need to get some more footage of the landscape. Flew about 200 feet high and about 300 feet away not to far at all. Until i saw this HUGE hawk! its wingspan looked like 5x bigger than my little mavic. Its coming straight for it about 50 feet away close and CLOSER! I instantly start screaming to myself "BAIL!, BAIL!,BAIL!" I pushed Full throttle all the way down and turned so fast, yelling come back to me! and the Hawk turns to come back for my mavic again. Speeding back to me as fast as i can Thinking "sport mode?" didnt have time..... My palms are sweaty, my adrenaline is pumping I'm so scared. Finally made it back to me, having my hands up trying to scare the hawk away, and landed, and just said thank god! that would of been terrible. The Hawk then flew back in the sky and just soars around me, as if it saying "this is my area" for about 20 minutes. I then left and called it for the day and said you win.
I just want to say thank you from all those post about bird attacks because if it wasn't for them. I would have just hovered and say wow look at that hawk! let me get some video and boom! Mavic dead. Ever since reading about bird attacks i always kept a eye out.... looked around to make sure there was no birds. I rarely even see birds here in Las Vegas anyway most i ever see is a pigeons. So i wasn't to worried about it. until today I saw the Hawk i instantly knew it was coming for the drone, no hesitation i bailed, because of reading this forum saved me my drone and money.
So to tell everyone be careful about birds, HAWKS more importantly. even if you think there will be none trust me they are watching.
My questions:
What can we do to prevent our drones getting attack by birds?
Do you have any story's about a bird attacks?
What kind of species of bird are aggresive in the air? Hawk, Ducks, Geese? what birds should you watch out for most?
Thank you again drone pilots.
I just want to say thank you from all those post about bird attacks because if it wasn't for them. I would have just hovered and say wow look at that hawk! let me get some video and boom! Mavic dead. Ever since reading about bird attacks i always kept a eye out.... looked around to make sure there was no birds. I rarely even see birds here in Las Vegas anyway most i ever see is a pigeons. So i wasn't to worried about it. until today I saw the Hawk i instantly knew it was coming for the drone, no hesitation i bailed, because of reading this forum saved me my drone and money.
So to tell everyone be careful about birds, HAWKS more importantly. even if you think there will be none trust me they are watching.
My questions:
What can we do to prevent our drones getting attack by birds?
Do you have any story's about a bird attacks?
What kind of species of bird are aggresive in the air? Hawk, Ducks, Geese? what birds should you watch out for most?
Thank you again drone pilots.
