Not a hippy or a bee expert, but I do care a bit about these little suckers. Here in Australia they aren't "Killer Bees" they just sting a bit when they try to give you hugs and honey.
Yesterday I was flying in a new park, and went right up did a pano then as I was about to come down the Girlfriend "lost control" of her spark, so I went to the rescue and hit RTH on my drone and went and helped her.
If I had not used RTH I would not have decended so slowly as to retain the mini swarm of bees that seemed to be attacking my drone (again in Australia, our bees don't swarm unless a hive in under imminent attack, this was a highly unusual sight).
I also noticed that they were committing Kamikazi against the props, soon a swarm of 30 or so was 0. Nothing I could do to shake them (I tried).
Once I had landed I looked at the body of the AC and saw a very familiar splatter pattern across the drone. I had seen this on multiple flights before however not this bad and I had always chalked it up to flies or something.
My theory is (and please feel free to weigh in) that they "heard" or "felt" the vibration created by the drone and assumed it was an enemy swarm that was attackiing them, so they went into battle. And when I am normally controlling the drone I decend much faster and obviously lose the swarms. I also tested the height at which I attract them and it seems to be around the 100m mark.
I am definitely going to be doing faster decents now. I was also using the newer more efficient props, I might do some experimentation with the original DJI Mavic Pro props and see if it has the same effect.
Yesterday I was flying in a new park, and went right up did a pano then as I was about to come down the Girlfriend "lost control" of her spark, so I went to the rescue and hit RTH on my drone and went and helped her.
If I had not used RTH I would not have decended so slowly as to retain the mini swarm of bees that seemed to be attacking my drone (again in Australia, our bees don't swarm unless a hive in under imminent attack, this was a highly unusual sight).
I also noticed that they were committing Kamikazi against the props, soon a swarm of 30 or so was 0. Nothing I could do to shake them (I tried).
Once I had landed I looked at the body of the AC and saw a very familiar splatter pattern across the drone. I had seen this on multiple flights before however not this bad and I had always chalked it up to flies or something.
My theory is (and please feel free to weigh in) that they "heard" or "felt" the vibration created by the drone and assumed it was an enemy swarm that was attackiing them, so they went into battle. And when I am normally controlling the drone I decend much faster and obviously lose the swarms. I also tested the height at which I attract them and it seems to be around the 100m mark.
I am definitely going to be doing faster decents now. I was also using the newer more efficient props, I might do some experimentation with the original DJI Mavic Pro props and see if it has the same effect.
