Often, when I land, I will come towards me and down at high speed, pushing the drone away from me at the last moment. Makes the drone do sort of an air-burnout/brakeslide. The "Whoosh!" of the props and gust of wind are always thrilling, and I find it can often be a conversation starter when you've picked up (a) spectator(s).
Recently, I was in-flight when my spotter transcribed a text message to me which would cause me to need to abort my flight and take care of something important that had come up, and time was of the essence. Hurriedly I flew my drone back towards myself, and once close, while coming in for one of my show-off landings, I failed to appropriately compensate for the ambient breeze, causing my drone to drastically overshoot the "brakeslide zone" and instead of doing an air-burnout, collided with a (closed - after bus. hrs) building instead.
Now, to be fair, it was cold AF (Canada, eh?) so I was bundled up, impacting my ability to detect the breeze. To make matters worse, I took off from a business parking lot that is surrounded on 3 sides by buildings, and then went to the "middle" of the buildings to fly. Without realizing it, that also further impacted my ability to acknowledge and react appropriately as I was cozy alongside a building while the drone was out in the open, not the best place to be aware of the weather
TL;DR - I slacked on being observant and paid the price.
Now to the main topic of this post:
I have DJICR for my MA2 (the unfortunate victim in the above situation) however I live in Canada and the DJI official page basically tells me I don't get any convenient coverage for my drone, heck I don't even get to deal with DJI directly for the warranty case, my only choice is to deal with an "approved/assigned" 3rd party, and if I want to get my drone fixed under warranty I'm going to have to jump through twice the number of hoops as most of the rest of the population. Now, to find out that there is no DIRECT, CONVENIENT way for me to excersize the warranty coverage I ponied up good money for was disappointing, to make an understatement. Now throw Covid into the mix for added "fun" and you can see I'm starting to dread the process I'm about to have to undertake...
Whats the fastest and cheapest way(s) for a Canadian with crash insurance to get back in the air? I don't really want to be sending my expensive toys on round trip holidays to the other side of the planet, or spending months waiting for stuff to dawdle through the postal system, checking tracking info a dozen times a day anxiously, if I can avoid it
Recently, I was in-flight when my spotter transcribed a text message to me which would cause me to need to abort my flight and take care of something important that had come up, and time was of the essence. Hurriedly I flew my drone back towards myself, and once close, while coming in for one of my show-off landings, I failed to appropriately compensate for the ambient breeze, causing my drone to drastically overshoot the "brakeslide zone" and instead of doing an air-burnout, collided with a (closed - after bus. hrs) building instead.
Now, to be fair, it was cold AF (Canada, eh?) so I was bundled up, impacting my ability to detect the breeze. To make matters worse, I took off from a business parking lot that is surrounded on 3 sides by buildings, and then went to the "middle" of the buildings to fly. Without realizing it, that also further impacted my ability to acknowledge and react appropriately as I was cozy alongside a building while the drone was out in the open, not the best place to be aware of the weather

TL;DR - I slacked on being observant and paid the price.
Now to the main topic of this post:
I have DJICR for my MA2 (the unfortunate victim in the above situation) however I live in Canada and the DJI official page basically tells me I don't get any convenient coverage for my drone, heck I don't even get to deal with DJI directly for the warranty case, my only choice is to deal with an "approved/assigned" 3rd party, and if I want to get my drone fixed under warranty I'm going to have to jump through twice the number of hoops as most of the rest of the population. Now, to find out that there is no DIRECT, CONVENIENT way for me to excersize the warranty coverage I ponied up good money for was disappointing, to make an understatement. Now throw Covid into the mix for added "fun" and you can see I'm starting to dread the process I'm about to have to undertake...
Whats the fastest and cheapest way(s) for a Canadian with crash insurance to get back in the air? I don't really want to be sending my expensive toys on round trip holidays to the other side of the planet, or spending months waiting for stuff to dawdle through the postal system, checking tracking info a dozen times a day anxiously, if I can avoid it