hello fellow pilots....
spoiler: pilot error
sorry for bad English
I will start by saying I am flying quads from 2012,
January 2013 ( if I am not mistaken ) I had my first P1.
ever sens that I have been a DJI fanboy at some days, and a hater in other....
I had every single release of a phantom till P2 ( P1, FC, P2V, P2, P2 VER 2)
and I have stooped at P3P ( you could see DJI stock going down because of that
)
so by this I want to tell each and every pilot, things can happen !! it is my second crash from 2012
I know the drills and emergency ones as well !
but this one was not in the pilot book !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the actual events took place last weekend, as I was helping a photographer friend take a wedding gig
and covering Arial footage.
don't jump at me, I was taking these shoots while no gusts were in ( big luck, never fly above pepole ).
any way I was flying to the middle of this big house yard 300meter by 100 meter
and hovering in place while I am starting to program litchi app to way point flight.
all of a sudden I hear a buzz, and I see another phantom rushing straight in to my phantom,
I got panic and start to look around me to look for the pilot, NO ONE THERE !!
the second phantom was hovering by then right next to mine,
and I really didn't feel comfortable by that
so I start yelling " WOW !! WHOS FLYING HERE," but no one replayed.
I look back to the quad and start making my way down.
after half of the way back I have start to notice that I am not in control on my phantom
and the soft input of my stick become hard knoking left right up up up up but my phantom keep going down
and to the north aiming for a big forest,
at this point no stick input made any different as I see it go behind a big wall.
I am rushing to a point which I can take a pick behind it when I see this man
he looked like the Kettering guy and I am yelling to him
me: " do you see a copter??"
him: "yes"
me: "did it crash??"
him: "no"
me: "is it still hovering ??"
him: " no"
me: " and it didn't crash ??!??!?"
him: "no"
me: " are you sure its on the ground ??"
him: " yes"
me: " does the motors spinning??"
him: " no"
and that's when I did the most stupid thing in the world !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wanted to make sure the phantom is off
and I shut off motor's
now I will tell you what happend !
when I took my eyes away from my phantom to look for the pilot of the second quad and back to my phantom
thats when error number one happend
that was not my phantom !!!!!!
when I panicked and was desperately were trying to control my quad it was doing what ever I told it and went away
by the way litchi stooped feeding me with live video for some reason however I did had my HDMI monitor connected as well
but because of all the mess and litchi stooped feeding me with live video
and "I can't control my phantom" I was sure it is all one big radio interference and hdmi showing me the other phantom
when the Kettering guy which happend to be the Idiot pilot told me the phantom on the ground and fail to tell me it was his
my phantom was 50 meter high and 100 meter away
when I shut off my motors my phantom become a rock !!!!!!!!!!!!!
why I call him Idiot, becouse apperently he was 5-8 meters away from me with a wall in between us
THERE IS NO WAY HE DIDN'T HEAR MY QUAD STARTING UP AND TAKING OFF
AND THERE IS NO WAY THAT HE FLEW STRIGHT TO MY QUAD WITH OUT SEEING MINE !
NO WAY !!
I was up in the air before him, I was right there where he aim his quad for 2 min
and still he decides to take off with out letting me know ( must be thinking to himself " hahah 2 phantoms ")
I wasn't expacting this everything happend so quick
I wasn't taking in consider that I am not looking at my quad, and when you have an out of control quad
you DO NOT HIT RTH !! specially when some people around
when you do have out of controll quad and everything happening so fast you do not think why does my monitor show image but phone is not !
AND THE LAST THING you can not take in consider that you are that stupid for looking at the wrong phantom which catch you un prepared ( no one told me another phantom is going to be there )
end of story my phantom drops from the sky like a rock and splits in to 6 sections
2 meters from the groom's father
leaving me heart broken( I loved my phantom) and so much anger..
now what do you think ?
would you be prepared for such a thing?
would you follow my mistake?
would you kill that other pilot ??
do you think it can never happend to you ??
can you actually understand you can never know how you day would end when flying your phantom
guys don't think you are gods, anybody can make mistakes, you don't get a 10 mi notification before anything happening to you,
be careful, try to practice in your head any scenario and how you should behave before each flight
FLY SAFE........
spoiler: pilot error
sorry for bad English
I will start by saying I am flying quads from 2012,
January 2013 ( if I am not mistaken ) I had my first P1.
ever sens that I have been a DJI fanboy at some days, and a hater in other....
I had every single release of a phantom till P2 ( P1, FC, P2V, P2, P2 VER 2)
and I have stooped at P3P ( you could see DJI stock going down because of that
)so by this I want to tell each and every pilot, things can happen !! it is my second crash from 2012
I know the drills and emergency ones as well !
but this one was not in the pilot book !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the actual events took place last weekend, as I was helping a photographer friend take a wedding gig
and covering Arial footage.
don't jump at me, I was taking these shoots while no gusts were in ( big luck, never fly above pepole ).
any way I was flying to the middle of this big house yard 300meter by 100 meter
and hovering in place while I am starting to program litchi app to way point flight.
all of a sudden I hear a buzz, and I see another phantom rushing straight in to my phantom,
I got panic and start to look around me to look for the pilot, NO ONE THERE !!
the second phantom was hovering by then right next to mine,
and I really didn't feel comfortable by that
so I start yelling " WOW !! WHOS FLYING HERE," but no one replayed.
I look back to the quad and start making my way down.
after half of the way back I have start to notice that I am not in control on my phantom
and the soft input of my stick become hard knoking left right up up up up but my phantom keep going down
and to the north aiming for a big forest,
at this point no stick input made any different as I see it go behind a big wall.
I am rushing to a point which I can take a pick behind it when I see this man
he looked like the Kettering guy and I am yelling to him
me: " do you see a copter??"
him: "yes"
me: "did it crash??"
him: "no"
me: "is it still hovering ??"
him: " no"
me: " and it didn't crash ??!??!?"
him: "no"
me: " are you sure its on the ground ??"
him: " yes"
me: " does the motors spinning??"
him: " no"
and that's when I did the most stupid thing in the world !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wanted to make sure the phantom is off
and I shut off motor's
now I will tell you what happend !
when I took my eyes away from my phantom to look for the pilot of the second quad and back to my phantom
thats when error number one happend
that was not my phantom !!!!!!
when I panicked and was desperately were trying to control my quad it was doing what ever I told it and went away
by the way litchi stooped feeding me with live video for some reason however I did had my HDMI monitor connected as well
but because of all the mess and litchi stooped feeding me with live video
and "I can't control my phantom" I was sure it is all one big radio interference and hdmi showing me the other phantom
when the Kettering guy which happend to be the Idiot pilot told me the phantom on the ground and fail to tell me it was his
my phantom was 50 meter high and 100 meter away
when I shut off my motors my phantom become a rock !!!!!!!!!!!!!
why I call him Idiot, becouse apperently he was 5-8 meters away from me with a wall in between us
THERE IS NO WAY HE DIDN'T HEAR MY QUAD STARTING UP AND TAKING OFF
AND THERE IS NO WAY THAT HE FLEW STRIGHT TO MY QUAD WITH OUT SEEING MINE !
NO WAY !!
I was up in the air before him, I was right there where he aim his quad for 2 min
and still he decides to take off with out letting me know ( must be thinking to himself " hahah 2 phantoms ")
I wasn't expacting this everything happend so quick
I wasn't taking in consider that I am not looking at my quad, and when you have an out of control quad
you DO NOT HIT RTH !! specially when some people around
when you do have out of controll quad and everything happening so fast you do not think why does my monitor show image but phone is not !
AND THE LAST THING you can not take in consider that you are that stupid for looking at the wrong phantom which catch you un prepared ( no one told me another phantom is going to be there )
end of story my phantom drops from the sky like a rock and splits in to 6 sections
2 meters from the groom's father
leaving me heart broken( I loved my phantom) and so much anger..
now what do you think ?
would you be prepared for such a thing?
would you follow my mistake?
would you kill that other pilot ??
do you think it can never happend to you ??
can you actually understand you can never know how you day would end when flying your phantom
guys don't think you are gods, anybody can make mistakes, you don't get a 10 mi notification before anything happening to you,
be careful, try to practice in your head any scenario and how you should behave before each flight
FLY SAFE........
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