Went out this morning hoping to get some follow me video of myself riding my snowmachine. Made a pilot error in my setup that ended with my Anafi up in a Balsam tree 26 feet up. Same Anafi that spent last winter in a tree. Seems it likes trees 
Using just my phone I had set up for tracking which makes the Anafi want to track from the back. As it started to go around to where it would track me I never thought about the metal building I had parked beside. I guess as it was going around and got closer to the building it just took off at a high rate of speed. It happened so fast I could not react to what was going on. Luckily I was low enough that it ended up in the trees. Now the hard part was trying to get it out of the trees. I always use elastic bands now on my battery just in case of a situation like this. So it never lost the battery and I could hear it up in the tree but could not see it. Ended up going back home and got my pool skimmer pole to see if I could shake the branches enough to knock it to the ground. Not knowing exactly where in the tree it was that did not work. Went back home and got a extension latter and climbed as high as this old body would allow me but I could still not see where in the tree it was. Back home and this time I brought the big guns back to the tree. Started the power saw up and 3 minutes later the Anafi was back in my hands. No damage to the Anafi, not even a broken prop but I am afraid the tree never made out so well. LOL
I consider myself a experienced UAV pilot but even we can make dumbass moves.
Using just my phone I had set up for tracking which makes the Anafi want to track from the back. As it started to go around to where it would track me I never thought about the metal building I had parked beside. I guess as it was going around and got closer to the building it just took off at a high rate of speed. It happened so fast I could not react to what was going on. Luckily I was low enough that it ended up in the trees. Now the hard part was trying to get it out of the trees. I always use elastic bands now on my battery just in case of a situation like this. So it never lost the battery and I could hear it up in the tree but could not see it. Ended up going back home and got my pool skimmer pole to see if I could shake the branches enough to knock it to the ground. Not knowing exactly where in the tree it was that did not work. Went back home and got a extension latter and climbed as high as this old body would allow me but I could still not see where in the tree it was. Back home and this time I brought the big guns back to the tree. Started the power saw up and 3 minutes later the Anafi was back in my hands. No damage to the Anafi, not even a broken prop but I am afraid the tree never made out so well. LOL
I consider myself a experienced UAV pilot but even we can make dumbass moves.
