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RE: Waddell Beach and Waddell Creek by Drone

in #photofeed7 years ago

Sorry to hear you lost your mavic! 😔
I’ve been flying drones for 6 years and even now if something goes bad, panic kicks in and I wouldn’t think of going manual. Maybe should practice for unfortunate events like that. Once I even considered a parachute to kick at the push of a button 😅.
I once lost control when my RX antenna broke. Since then I upgraded to ezUHF with a yaggi antenna that gives me up to 15km range!! 🤪
Made a post about my crash:
https://steemit.com/video/@valorforfreedom/how-to-make-a-drone-crash-look-good-minnow-support-saturday-winner-post--video

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Forgot to mention there’s a discord channel for drone owners:
https://discord.gg/avvzm

Yeah I have been practicing using the ATTI mode with my P3 now just in case! These DJI drones are suppose to switch to ATTI automatically if the GPS goes out and I was relying on that but I learned the hard way that the GPS can fail without the drone knowing it. Learning the manual override controls is a must!

Gosh thanks for sharing your story @fivealive55. And so sorry to hear you lost the Mavic Pro. :( sounds like I gotta quickly go learn how to do a manual override on my Air...