Drone Crash DJI F550

I took my DJI F550 Hexacoptor (6 props) out for a flight today after updating the camera gimbals firmware, updating some antennas, and adjusting the roll of the camera, as it sat at about an 8-10 degree angle and it annoyed me.

Before I left my house, I was concerned about the wind, however, not having a single calm day since I bought this drone 3 months ago, I went ahead and took it out anyways to take advantage of my day off from work.

I went to my normal flying place in Oshkosh, WI at Asylum Point Park. When I arrived, I felt the wind was far too high, but I've had an itch to fly it, I had the day off and was here, so I'm flying!

It took me a while after arming the motors to actually feel the wind was calm enough to take off. The wind was steady at about 20-30 mph. It's nothing I hadn't flown in before, and before I knew it, I found my break in the wind and lifted off without incident.

After I got air-born, I became increasingly concerned about the wind speed as it started to get fairly unsteady. The drone was rapidly rising, dropping, swaying left to right, front to back; I decided to set it down and wait out the wind.

After waiting for a short time, I re-armed the motors, increased the throttle, waited for the right break in the wind to take off, and right as I increased the throttle further, taking much of the wight off of the craft, a wind gust larger than anything that had been experienced so far, blew my drone over backwards, forcing my rear props to a very quick stop and causing minimal damage to the carbon fiber blades.

I inspected the parts, armed the motors, physically held the drone to the ground, increased the throttle and decided no immediate dangers existed from the crash.

I reset the drone, waited again for a calming of the wind and took off without a problem. The drone flew better in the high wind after I got it out into the open, but I still didn't feel completely comfortable as the wind was moving the hexacopter up and down quite a bit, but I tried to keep a decent altitude to avoid a crash into the ground.

I spun around a bit, got some shots of the ice, the cracks, the clouds, and then after a while, decided to turn around and shoot the lighthouse from a different angle than I previously have.

Shortly after turning around, the wind hit a new high speed and the craft became increasingly hard to handle. The wind is now about 35-45 mph, and after having one close call already, I am rapidly looking for an opportunity to immediately set down, as the drone has reached its limit in correcting the wind and is now barely controllable.

Seconds before I make my attempt to land, a wind gust that nearly blew me off my feet, causing me to compensate my standing position to an angle, a gust of 50-60 mph catches my drone, blowing the craft beyond its ability to correct the roll, swiftly carries it into the ground, and flips into the weeds, coming to a rest on the rocks and snow alongside the frozen lake.

Parts fly away from the drone as a sound of a head hitting concrete fills the winter air, creating a silent moment of disbelief as I look around to see if anyone saw the crash. Luckily I think it went unseen; Until now!

I hope you enjoyed! I played with some color correction filters while editing this to give the sky the fiery feeling (as it was very dull outside), and I am going to try to play some more with this in future videos.

In the mean time, I need to figure out why my camera gimbal seems to no longer have any power, and fix my brand new retractable landing gear, as both of these were effected in todays crash.

I was told over and over by professionals, read stories and saw videos almost every day, about how "YOU WILL CRASH!"
It is indeed inevitable. If you fly a machine, a machine that is not perfect, you/it will crash. Today the conditions caused the crash, but I can only be happy that nothing more serious than some super glue, hopefully some calibrating or re-wiring, and maybe some new props in the near future will completely and cheaply fix this crash. It could have been a lot worse and I am gaining an increasing respect for this and the damage it is capable of if conditions aren't exactly perfect.

As always, thanks for watching and I hope you click the subscribe button! There will be more to come! Maybe even more crashes....!

Видео Drone Crash DJI F550 канала Eric Ott