Had very close call with a hawk yesterday on the Mavic's maiden flight. It was scary to say the least. Imagine if it had gotten hold of the drone ... a crashed maiden flight would be the result.
Apart from the hawk, I came close to coming away with a disastrous first flight;
1. Just beyond the school (in the video) were power lines and I had no idea where my drone was in relation to these.
2. While backing away from the hawk, I lost orientation on where my drone was in relation to the take off point and I descended it not realising that I was already over the roof of a house and could easily have hit a TV antenna or some other structures.
Tonight I was taking some shots of a newly completed mosque at Lima Kedai.
All went OK until I was descending; I was distracted by a green and red light above me which I thought was my Phantom 3 and kept descending until I noticed that although I heard the Phantom getting louder and louder the two lights weren't moving and when I realise they did not belong to my drone, my drone was just 1.5m from the ground!!! It was descending and I wasn't looking at it but at some strange lights (reflection off my glasses perhaps?). I could have hit a lamp post while coming down!
But the night started badly; first I didn't bring the lightning cable for the iPad Mini 4 and 2) the Huawei Mediapad 2 wasn't charged.
So I used the phone instead.
Yes. I think the red and green lights were reflections on my glasses of the traffic lights behind me.
Otherwise it was an 'OK' night ...
I have been flying these camera drones for a good 3 years, and yet I still make mistakes...silly ones like today's.
