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- Aug 18, 2018
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Lost my Anafi today, flight 54. Which is much better than the two Sparks I had before.
I was shooting video of a friend eFoiling when with 30% battery left it just dropped out of the sky and in the water. So... jump in the dinghy... go to the spot shown by the last recorded position... and we recovered it from about 12’ of water. At least I was able to pull the card and get the footage.
I suspect a prop failure as one of the blade is sheared near the hub. Last frame on the screen showed a frozen picture at about 30 degree tilt angle, consistent with prop failure. But there were sea gulls in the area so who knows ...
Oh well... $500... 54 flights with great footage that s about $10 a flight... pennies per pic or video clip.
not sure yet what I ll do next. Anafi has been good, it’s cheap yet yields great footage. Range is the issue for me as the best I ve gotten was 3/4 of a mile which is marginal for what I want to do. Very tempted by the Mavic Air but I m concerned about DJI big brother restricted zones ... I could use a solid 3 to 4 mile range here when coming to the Bahamas But there are many small airstrips so I don’t want to get locked out...
I was shooting video of a friend eFoiling when with 30% battery left it just dropped out of the sky and in the water. So... jump in the dinghy... go to the spot shown by the last recorded position... and we recovered it from about 12’ of water. At least I was able to pull the card and get the footage.
I suspect a prop failure as one of the blade is sheared near the hub. Last frame on the screen showed a frozen picture at about 30 degree tilt angle, consistent with prop failure. But there were sea gulls in the area so who knows ...
Oh well... $500... 54 flights with great footage that s about $10 a flight... pennies per pic or video clip.
not sure yet what I ll do next. Anafi has been good, it’s cheap yet yields great footage. Range is the issue for me as the best I ve gotten was 3/4 of a mile which is marginal for what I want to do. Very tempted by the Mavic Air but I m concerned about DJI big brother restricted zones ... I could use a solid 3 to 4 mile range here when coming to the Bahamas But there are many small airstrips so I don’t want to get locked out...