Lost another drone

[Rchawks]

I’ve have two mishaps with planes and trees in my lifetime. First time was in a tree on the Blvd and I noticed that someone who looked like he was in his 20’s watching from a rest area when it happened. So I found a tie down strap from the back of my car and threw it up and over the bottom branch which was about 15 ft from the ground. I doubled it over and pulled myself up hand over hand until I could grab the branch to pull myself up. I climbed up the tree to the point where I could shake the branch and it dropped to the ground. While climbing back down to lower myself to the ground was the scariest thing you could imagine for someone in their early 40’s. The risk of falling is very high with something like that but it was all adrenaline at the time.
The second time was on Christmas day and bitter cold. I’d just launched and was gaining altitude when it caught the top of a tree (I was at the bottom of a hill). I was messing with my gloves when it happened. I tried for hours to get it down. I tried everything I could to reach it to no avail. This was on Christmas day and needless to say my wife wasn’t very happy about spending the day without me while I was doing all this.
I ran into the Director of the parks dept. and told him what happened and the next week he got it back for me, great guy.
Long story short DON’T RISK YOUR LIFE OR HEALTH trying to retrieve something that can be replaced! One mishap could change your life forever.