Recently I was in Seoul/Korea. My hotel is right on the border of a NFZ (see red dot on the map). I was curious whether I could launch my M2P. So I went up to the roof top and tried, surprisingly I managed to start the props and launched. I was happily droning on the south of the NFZ around the Seoul Tower filming to my hearts content.
Then .... when it's time to return, battery < 25%. The M2P stopped short about 30ft from my home point on the roof top
. ****!!! How am I going to land? It won't come in regardless of what I do. At that moment the battery was around 18%. I look around frantically to see where I could find a safe place to land. The area is heavily congested as it is part of downtown. Then I saw an empty roof top nearby and landed the M2P there. But then I had second thoughts after seeing that there is no way I could get access to that roof top. Launched the M2P again, battery is at 12%. My heart was already racing with all the adrenaline. In my mind - "Going to lose the M2P". Batteries now at 10%, forced landing was issued. I tried to throttle up as long as possible while looking for a landing spot. There is a 25ft gap between 2 nearby buildings. That has to be it where there was nothing else. I ran down to street level to get to the spot where I landed. Next problem ... There was no access to that space between the two buildings where there is a 7ft wooden fence front and back. No one around to ask for retrieval permission. So I took a chance, climbed the fence to retrieve it.
This is one lesson I like to share with y'all. Never fly on the border of a NFZ, especially when you can't go forward to retrieve the drone. In my case - the roof top. It was a great relieve after these few minutesof horror
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Then .... when it's time to return, battery < 25%. The M2P stopped short about 30ft from my home point on the roof top
. ****!!! How am I going to land? It won't come in regardless of what I do. At that moment the battery was around 18%. I look around frantically to see where I could find a safe place to land. The area is heavily congested as it is part of downtown. Then I saw an empty roof top nearby and landed the M2P there. But then I had second thoughts after seeing that there is no way I could get access to that roof top. Launched the M2P again, battery is at 12%. My heart was already racing with all the adrenaline. In my mind - "Going to lose the M2P". Batteries now at 10%, forced landing was issued. I tried to throttle up as long as possible while looking for a landing spot. There is a 25ft gap between 2 nearby buildings. That has to be it where there was nothing else. I ran down to street level to get to the spot where I landed. Next problem ... There was no access to that space between the two buildings where there is a 7ft wooden fence front and back. No one around to ask for retrieval permission. So I took a chance, climbed the fence to retrieve it.This is one lesson I like to share with y'all. Never fly on the border of a NFZ, especially when you can't go forward to retrieve the drone. In my case - the roof top. It was a great relieve after these few minutesof horror
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