Crash Into Tree - Not for the Squeamish

Teamfour · Jan 1, 2017

Some of you may remember my post last week where I reported a lost and found incident. I had the RTH set to 99 feet and encountered a 100 foot tree. Luckily being winter, the tree was bare allowing the Dreauxn to fall all the way to the ground. After replacing the props and doing an IMU cal, the bird flies fine.

In fact, I successfully flew two Litchi waypoint missions today without an issue.

Kirby Johnson · Jan 1, 2017

Teamfeauxr: Great news, you must be living right. Or it was a helluva friendly tree!

Slackware · Jan 1, 2017

I don't get the title. Wanted to see it with it's guts spilled out like a good car wreck.
But glad it lived.

Teamfour · Jan 1, 2017

Slackware said:
I don't get the title. Wanted to see it with it's guts spilled out like a good car wreck.
But glad it lived.

It was bleeding electrons.

Slackware · Jan 1, 2017

Teamfour said:
It was bleeding electrons.

That's good. After a zapping the tree it wont try that again.

Guess since the IMU didn't know what was going on the electrons came from it. Frontal lobe damage could have been much worse.

Banksy · Jan 2, 2017

Teamfour said:
Some of you may remember my post last week where I reported a lost and found incident. I had the RTH set to 99 feet and encountered a 100 foot tree. Luckily being winter, the tree was bare allowing the Dreauxn to fall all the way to the ground. After replacing the props and doing an IMU cal, the bird flies fine.

In fact, I successfully flew two Litchi waypoint missions today without an issue.