Kids Find a Crashed Drone and Play With It | A Drone Pilots Worst Nightmare
- il y a 7 ans
Two kids find my crashed quadcopter in a bush, and my GoPro records their entire adventure with it. Caution: May cause slight discomfort to drone pilots.\r
Quick note: Please be nice in the comments. Yes, the kids were a little rough with the drone, but they didnt know any better. Please minimize your hatred towards them in the comments as much as possible.\r
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Also, if anyone is curious about how the drone was found, here is the full story:\r
Immediately after I lost sight of the drone, as you would expect, I began to sprint down the field towards the trees. My friend and I spent about 2 or 3 hours that night looking through the trees and the nearby brush. While I was in one of the trees, I noticed some kids throwing something in the air on a hill far away. I couldnt tell what it was, but it was pretty windy that day so I assumed it was a kite. Soon it was too dark to see, so we headed home. The next day, after plenty of rain, we were searching for it all around the area where I had last seen it, still thinking it had landed in one of the trees or in the surrounding brush. After about 3 or 4 hours of searching, we took a lunch break. While I was eating my pizza under our tent, my grandmother was just curiously looking around with some binoculars we had and just happened to see a little white dot about a hundred yards away or so on the hill I had seen last night. I couldnt see it well enough to tell if it was the drone or not, but we werent having any luck where we were anyway. We drove to that area and it was there! One propellor was broken, the GoPro and its housing were off and separated (which at the time I had thought to be caused by the imp...), and there was plenty of water droplets on everything. After drying everything out, I downloaded the footage. boy was I surprised by what I found! Of course I was a little upset with those kids, but they really are kids and they dont know any better. In their mind, they were just helping out by trying to get it back in the air! So now I just look back at it all and laugh. Thank goodness my newer DJI Phantom 3 has resistance to power lines!
Quick note: Please be nice in the comments. Yes, the kids were a little rough with the drone, but they didnt know any better. Please minimize your hatred towards them in the comments as much as possible.\r
\r
Also, if anyone is curious about how the drone was found, here is the full story:\r
Immediately after I lost sight of the drone, as you would expect, I began to sprint down the field towards the trees. My friend and I spent about 2 or 3 hours that night looking through the trees and the nearby brush. While I was in one of the trees, I noticed some kids throwing something in the air on a hill far away. I couldnt tell what it was, but it was pretty windy that day so I assumed it was a kite. Soon it was too dark to see, so we headed home. The next day, after plenty of rain, we were searching for it all around the area where I had last seen it, still thinking it had landed in one of the trees or in the surrounding brush. After about 3 or 4 hours of searching, we took a lunch break. While I was eating my pizza under our tent, my grandmother was just curiously looking around with some binoculars we had and just happened to see a little white dot about a hundred yards away or so on the hill I had seen last night. I couldnt see it well enough to tell if it was the drone or not, but we werent having any luck where we were anyway. We drove to that area and it was there! One propellor was broken, the GoPro and its housing were off and separated (which at the time I had thought to be caused by the imp...), and there was plenty of water droplets on everything. After drying everything out, I downloaded the footage. boy was I surprised by what I found! Of course I was a little upset with those kids, but they really are kids and they dont know any better. In their mind, they were just helping out by trying to get it back in the air! So now I just look back at it all and laugh. Thank goodness my newer DJI Phantom 3 has resistance to power lines!