I have a Mavic Air 2.
50km flight total and 425 minutes.
Really enjoy flying it both shooting photo and LOS. Yesterday did a shoot of a family event and when I was done “tripodding” I went to sport mode and went around to make a pass by in front of everyone. The drone just stopped working mid air and went down, or rather veered left and down. Since it turned it hit the tile roof of the neighbors house and bounced to the ground and got damaged quite a lot. No damage to property or people thankfully.
In retrospect I did things right, not flying over or towards people and lining up the pass to be at a safe distance and angled slightly away from the people and happy with that.
Seeing it happen my best guess was the LF motor got stuck because the way it went down and it has no apparent damage but cannot be moved properly. Prop gone though.
i was hoping the log would confirm that but it shows ok; everything looks fine and then it ends before the crash so it was dead in the air before hitting the roof. The last entry is image signal error and connection error.
Damage is to gimbal, two motors, battery case dented, card corrupted. It starts up still.
So what next? I don’t think I want to try and repair it, sell it on eBay as parts and do something else, try to find another used 2 , upgrade to 2s or 3 or downgrade to a Mini?
Suggestions and thoughts welcome
(BTW I’m located in Sweden but I know most users here are in the US)
50km flight total and 425 minutes.
Really enjoy flying it both shooting photo and LOS. Yesterday did a shoot of a family event and when I was done “tripodding” I went to sport mode and went around to make a pass by in front of everyone. The drone just stopped working mid air and went down, or rather veered left and down. Since it turned it hit the tile roof of the neighbors house and bounced to the ground and got damaged quite a lot. No damage to property or people thankfully.
In retrospect I did things right, not flying over or towards people and lining up the pass to be at a safe distance and angled slightly away from the people and happy with that.
Seeing it happen my best guess was the LF motor got stuck because the way it went down and it has no apparent damage but cannot be moved properly. Prop gone though.
i was hoping the log would confirm that but it shows ok; everything looks fine and then it ends before the crash so it was dead in the air before hitting the roof. The last entry is image signal error and connection error.
Damage is to gimbal, two motors, battery case dented, card corrupted. It starts up still.
So what next? I don’t think I want to try and repair it, sell it on eBay as parts and do something else, try to find another used 2 , upgrade to 2s or 3 or downgrade to a Mini?
Suggestions and thoughts welcome
(BTW I’m located in Sweden but I know most users here are in the US)