Almost killed my M2P

Took the drone out today to try and get a comparison of M2P and M2Z.

I was up at the top of a reservoir and took the drone few hundred feet below to try set up an up and over shot.

Was a little too cocky in sports mode and flew it backwards into some trees. It dropped about a meter then recovered, I could hear it hitting branches from where I was standing.

Relieved it was still in the air I hit record and then that’s when things got weird. As I was trying to fly it out of the trees I was getting OA warnings and it felt extremely unstable and wouldn’t fly in the direction I asked it to.

By this point I was worried Id damaged a prop or something else was so seriously wrong so did not hit RTH.

The video shows me trying to get it closer to me where I planned on ditching it.

On landing I realised the gimbal was limp and that’s the reason It wouldn’t fly where I thought it would and felt really unstable. In the video I can now see that the camera flopped to the other side while I was bringing it back changing the controls again.

Quick check over and all is well, heres the video.

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Is the gimbal fubar. Or did a restart sort it. Congrats on getting it back.

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Restart sorted it out. Branches must have overloaded the motor.

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Happy days. :ok_hand::+1:

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Surely deserving of a buttock-clencher badge, @Committee?

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More a Plonker Badge, I think … I mean, who flies backwards into trees in Sport Mode to ensure your rear sensors are not working?

Awarded! :stuck_out_tongue:

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:rofl:

Yeah, I think plonker sounds about right

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Think DJI added a "gardening and hedge cutting mode"Looks like @callum may have found it…!!! :wink::rofl::rofl:

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Joking aside,glad you got your bird back safely,and no damage…:+1::+1:

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When it started to tumble in FPV feed I did think the worst.

Really lucky it corrected itself and didn’t land in the overflow directly below.

Ill not be flying back and down in sport mode again.

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Twitchy bum flight back I bet :grimacing:

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