Rookie Mistake

[GFields]

It is very important to slow down and look for obstacles. Today was very hot and the project required a lot of stills and video. As I was nearly finished with the shoot, I made a huge "rookie" mistake. Fortunately, my Air 3 was fine after rebooting it.

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[Yorkshire_Pud]

did it climb into cables or something?

 

[GFields]

did it climb into cables or something?

Yes. I flew straight up into a power line.

 

[Yorkshire_Pud]

Whoops.

 

[GFields]

Whoops.

Exactly! I was afraid that the drone was fried. I got a message to check props and the gimbal was going crazy. But after restarting the drone everything worked perfectly.

I did go ahead and replace the props

 

[AeroJ]

How did you get it down ?! Looks like it remained up there from the footage !

 

[AlanL]

How did you get it down ?! Looks like it remained up there from the footage !

Gravity never sleeps.....

 

[Yorkshire_Pud]

I was afraid that the drone was fried

That comment prompts the thought ........ Just as a matter of interest are those cables covered in insulation ?
It looks like it got hung up, which probably meant trying to recover it with a pole etc. If the cables are uninsulated and the pole was a conductor then you might literally have been frying.

 

[AeroJ]

Lols - yeah - power cables come with their own set of rescue requirements, hey ? At least trees can't kill you in the rescue attempt ! Unless you try and climb them and fall of course...