"I don't intend to crash", somebody said.
Yes! I believe that almost all of you think the same. Experience and a lot of practice are the best to avoid making stupid things.
But...! Yes, I fly the drone for nearly 3 years. Once I flew into the tree because of my false predicting where the drone should be without direct visual contact. It happened to be at least 150 m away from the predicted point. I decided then: I'll never fly not seeing what is in front of the drone. At least on the screen (I flew it backward than).
Now I bought the
P4P. I had it only few days when I decided to make filming the house flying circular at around 30 m distance (manually, not with intelligent flight mode). There was only that object and all around were plane fields, so I had no fears to hit something and I flew a bit too fast. It was very sunny day. I couldn't see the drone when it was in front of the sun. The distance from the object to the drone according to the screen picture was estimated wrong, as I was not very familiar with the build in display on RC. It turned out that this distance was near 60m. And the same was the distance to the group of trees behind me. Suddenly the RC began beeping and before I recognized this as the obstacle warning sound I heard the drone fighting with branches of those trees and of course the picture on screen began spinning.
In spite of the soft grass under those trees one leg of the drone was lightly bent and one propeller was broken. This last thing was of no relevance as I have always some of them in the box. I can turn the motors on after that but I've got the warning message that one of the compasses is not connected. In this situation would be unreasonable to fly onward.
The drone is now at service for repair. On my costs of course.
So much about the experience and skills I believe I have and I also had no intention to crash the new
P4P+. And for the top of it, this was the same principle of accident as the previous crash with the old P3A last year.
What to be learned out of this?
The estimated position of the drone if you not been able to see it is usually false, so act having this in your mind. This drones are very fast and they can be far away from the point you predicted to be. And always fly above the highest object around the drone.
Andy