Re: New (for me) drone
By: Digital Man to All on Fri Sep 01 2023 09:47 am

Last week, just before leaving fir an island vacation, my wife suggested I bring my drone (a DJI Phantom 3 I got as a Xmas gift from her in 2015) to take awesome airial videos of our adventure. That drone is pretty big and heavy and I hadn't flown it in years and (unbeknownst to me at the time) the battery pack was totally dead (won't charge due to bad battery maintenance). So I said I do it, but only if I could buy a new smaller DJI drone - she relented.

So I brought the new drone to Mo'orea for our next vacation (wedding anniversary and wife's birthday celebration) and well...
it didn't come back with me. :-(
https://youtu.be/NhhVuSZ6hvg
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Re: New (for me) drone
By: Digital Man to All on Mon Oct 09 2023 01:50 am

So I brought the new drone to Mo'orea for our next vacation (wedding anniversary and wife's birthday celebration) and well...
it didn't come back with me. :-(
https://youtu.be/NhhVuSZ6hvg

Not sure if his fishing was illegal, but I'm pretty sure shooting one out of the sky is!

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Re: New (for me) drone
By: Digital Man to All on Mon Oct 09 2023 01:50 am

So I brought the new drone to Mo'orea for our next vacation (wedding anniversary and wife's birthday celebration) and well...
it didn't come back with me. :-(
https://youtu.be/NhhVuSZ6hvg

i couldn't see this ending any other way, really.
if someone is signaling for help they usually do an on-off pattern.
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Re: New (for me) drone
By: MRO to Digital Man on Mon Oct 09 2023 03:44 pm

Re: New (for me) drone
By: Digital Man to All on Mon Oct 09 2023 01:50 am

So I brought the new drone to Mo'orea for our next vacation (wedding anniversary and wife's birthday celebration) and well...
it didn't come back with me. :-(
https://youtu.be/NhhVuSZ6hvg

i couldn't see this ending any other way, really.
if someone is signaling for help they usually do an on-off pattern.

From the shore, that's exactly what is looked like: an on-off pattern, due to waves or obstructions or whatever. It looked like someone was trying to signal the houses *or* frantically searching for something in the water. From the drone's perspective it looked more like a search light, but I certainly didn't guess it was a night spearfisherman. But I was flying too low, obviously.
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Re: New (for me) drone
By: Digital Man to All on Mon Oct 09 2023 01:50 am

So I brought the new drone to Mo'orea for our next vacation (wedding anniversary and wife's birthday celebration) and well...
it didn't come back with me. :-(
https://youtu.be/NhhVuSZ6hvg

Not sure if his fishing was illegal, but I'm pretty sure shooting one out of the sky is!

Yup, definately is if you can prove it... same penalties as shooting at a manned aircraft :D

The problem is getting them to even be bothered about it.

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Hello Digital Man!

** On Monday 09.10.23 - 15:44, Digital Man wrote to MRO:

.. but I certainly didn't guess it was a night
spearfisherman. But I was flying too low, obviously. --

Yup.. probably way too close to another human being (aren't
there regulations for that?) and for too long. As soon as you
ascertained there was no emergency you should have scooted out
of there.


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Re: New (for me) drone
By: Ogg to Digital Man on Tue Oct 10 2023 08:51 am

Hello Digital Man!

** On Monday 09.10.23 - 15:44, Digital Man wrote to MRO:

.. but I certainly didn't guess it was a night
spearfisherman. But I was flying too low, obviously. --

Yup.. probably way too close to another human being (aren't
there regulations for that?) and for too long. As soon as you
ascertained there was no emergency you should have scooted out
of there.

Yes, hindsight is 20/20.
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Re: New (for me) drone
By: Digital Man to All on Mon Oct 09 2023 01:50 am

Re: New (for me) drone
By: Digital Man to All on Fri Sep 01 2023 09:47 am

Last week, just before leaving fir an island vacation, my wife suggested I bring my drone (a DJI Phantom 3 I got as a Xmas gift from her in 2015) to take awesome airial videos of our adventure. That drone is pretty big and heavy and I hadn't flown it in years and (unbeknownst to me at the time) the battery pack was totally dead (won't charge due to bad battery maintenance). So I said I do it, but only if I could buy a new smaller DJI drone - she relented.

So I brought the new drone to Mo'orea for our next vacation (wedding anniversary and wife's birthday celebration) and well...
it didn't come back with me. :-(
https://youtu.be/NhhVuSZ6hvg

I filed a "fly away" report with DJI, not claiming it was their fault in any way. They looked at the report (complete with video, telemetry data) and agreed to give me 40% off the purchase of a replacement DJI 3. Since I was already planning on rplacing the DJI 3 with a DJI Mini 4 Pro, they're applying the discount ($200) to the purchase of a Mini 4 pro. DJI is a pretty cool company for doing that!
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Re: New (for me) drone
By: Digital Man to All on Mon Oct 30 2023 05:57 pm

I filed a "fly away" report with DJI, not claiming it was their fault in any way. They looked at the report (complete with video, telemetry data) and agreed to give me 40% off the purchase of a replacement DJI 3. Since I was already planning on rplacing the DJI 3 with a DJI Mini 4 Pro, they're applying the discount ($200) to the purchase of a Mini 4 pro. DJI is a pretty cool company for doing that!

did they see the video of the guy nailing it?
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Re: New (for me) drone
By: MRO to Digital Man on Tue Oct 31 2023 01:17 am

Re: New (for me) drone
By: Digital Man to All on Mon Oct 30 2023 05:57 pm

I filed a "fly away" report with DJI, not claiming it was their fault in any way. They looked at the report (complete with video, telemetry data) and agreed to give me 40% off the purchase of a replacement DJI 3. Since I was already planning on rplacing the DJI 3 with a DJI Mini 4 Pro, they're applying the discount ($200) to the purchase of a Mini 4 pro. DJI is a pretty cool company for doing that!

did they see the video of the guy nailing it?

Indeed. And I explained exactly what happened. This was their (accurate) conclusion: "According to the analysis, the incident was not caused by any product issue. The aircraft cannot detect or avoid any obstacles. Please fly with caution."

Other models (e.g. DJI Mini 3 Pro) *can* detect and avoid obstacles, so I wonder if they would have given me an even bigger discount on a new drone if it were one of those models.
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Re: New (for me) drone
By: Digital Man to MRO on Tue Oct 31 2023 10:57 am

Re: New (for me) drone
By: MRO to Digital Man on Tue Oct 31 2023 01:17 am

Re: New (for me) drone
By: Digital Man to All on Mon Oct 30 2023 05:57 pm

I filed a "fly away" report with DJI, not claiming it was their fault in any way. They looked at the report (complete with video, telemetry data) and agreed to give me 40% off the purchase of a replacement DJI 3. Since I was already planning on rplacing the DJI 3 with a DJI Mini 4 Pro, they're applying the discount ($200) to the purchase of a Mini 4 pro. DJI is a pretty cool company for doing that!

did they see the video of the guy nailing it?

Indeed. And I explained exactly what happened. This was their (accurate) conclusion: "According to the analysis, the incident was not caused by any product issue. The aircraft cannot detect or avoid any obstacles. Please fly with caution."

hahah. i guess them giving you a discount is to keep your business.
amazon does that a lot too.
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