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Well, the bird fell out of the sky.
I was doing a well planned mission for the Local Government of Benin City (mapping some communities for a development project) and to have all in one battery, the elevation was set to 215 meters.
I've started the mission, did 60 (of the 100) photos when I got an alarm "returning for battery change" although I had still 59%.
I saw the image on my iPad rotating like hell and that's it.
Lost connection
You have to understand that I'm in a very rural area (but with my mandatory escort) and I'm most likely the first white man entering that community in years.
Anyway, my Community Relations Officer explained and gave his number to recover the damage drone.
We left but before we left the village, big commotion and we had to go back. They found the drone. I thought that it is at least handy to open a new "Care Refresh Case" but when I saw the Mavic, it was almost undamaged. One leg was over another and one blade was missing. Further.... No scratch. It was even still on. Although I couldn't connect.
I took it back to the office..... and check. Everything was still working.
Again, it was flying at 215 meters high and the highest building was only 3 meters and the highest tree, maybe 6.
I have enough propeller blades so no problem there. I can't fly now to test because heavy rain. This evening re-calibrate the bird and I'm guessing I'm extremely lucky this time.
Although I have to redo the mapping next week
To be continued
I was doing a well planned mission for the Local Government of Benin City (mapping some communities for a development project) and to have all in one battery, the elevation was set to 215 meters.
I've started the mission, did 60 (of the 100) photos when I got an alarm "returning for battery change" although I had still 59%.
I saw the image on my iPad rotating like hell and that's it.
Lost connection
You have to understand that I'm in a very rural area (but with my mandatory escort) and I'm most likely the first white man entering that community in years.
Anyway, my Community Relations Officer explained and gave his number to recover the damage drone.
We left but before we left the village, big commotion and we had to go back. They found the drone. I thought that it is at least handy to open a new "Care Refresh Case" but when I saw the Mavic, it was almost undamaged. One leg was over another and one blade was missing. Further.... No scratch. It was even still on. Although I couldn't connect.
I took it back to the office..... and check. Everything was still working.
Again, it was flying at 215 meters high and the highest building was only 3 meters and the highest tree, maybe 6.
I have enough propeller blades so no problem there. I can't fly now to test because heavy rain. This evening re-calibrate the bird and I'm guessing I'm extremely lucky this time.
Although I have to redo the mapping next week
To be continued