An interesting point …
@joe.k, did you have obstacle avoidance on?
It’s not a 2 right? Looks like it passes over with the wire to the left/rear, so obstacle avoidance would have been no use anyway.
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I was thinking downward obstacle avoidance as it went over the one cable - a bummer if it shot up a few feet into the next one.
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Yes . Obstacle avoidance was on .
Would have been . I like the footage just as it is.
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That was nuts.
First YouTube vid that’s made me flinch.
You jammy, jammy git 
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@MementoMori’s post about his narrow escape and then scarpering reminded me of my very first drone! Long before I got a DJI I bought a Siema (I think??? £20 chinese jobby from ebay!) and took it to the park for a first flight.
…up up…up she went… me being me I pushed it higher and higher… got a whooping 50 meters… then the shitty controls lost connection and it banked right and flew at high speed away into a housing estate over the roofs!!!
At this point I gingerly but hastily made my exit as fast as I could! Watched the papers and news for a few days hoping I hadnt killed anybody, but think I got away with it!
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What ? Scarpered ? No …tracking it down and knocking on a door - “Can I have my drone back please ?” 
How far would you go to recover your DJI ?
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Oh for a DJI… well you’d have to go knocking with an apologetic look and an innocent face!
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In the fast flowing river Severn I would have just sat on the bank and cried if the P4P had gone in, I don’t do swimming and wouldn’t even try in that if I did, anywhere else I might though, just not water 
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I bet your drone came down probably only a couple of hundred yards away!, If it was a Syma (X5C), soon as it goes out of range it drops like a brick, with no stick input.
So you should have been able to retrieve it (had you the balls to watch it come down, and not scarpered !)
I made up extra range antennas and put them on mine, (not long after I got it)
Had to smile though at your post.
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It didn’t come down, soon as it lost stick input it pitched right and I watched it shoot out of view, quite a long way off!
Would not have been a Syma X5C then !.
It sounds like it might have been a Syma X8, more like a Phantom size, I had the X8HG for my first drone, I sold that to get a Phantom 4 which I still have and I also still have a modded X5C-1
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I’d probably not go this far…
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Id probably do the same. DJI Care plan requires a physical drone - in any condition - for you to get a replacement, so if I could recover it, I would.
“Excuse me, National Grid, could you black out the Chelmsford region whilst I shin up one of your pylons and crawl out onto the cable?”
"Ah, you need to know the reason? Well, it’s like this … "
Actually, that reminds me of a recent YouTube of someone using one MP with a wire hook underneath to dislodge another MP from some power line cables it had become hooked up on.
Or, if that failed …
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That’s about the best thing I have seen that could have happened to a GoPro Karma, Dave!.
It probably done the owner a favour.
That’ll be the gimbal effed, too.
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