I just found this footage from one of my 1st Arizona flights in Sept. I did everything wrong. It was much darker than it looks, right at sunset. Black Mountain is much steeper than it looks. Flying up a steep slope is hard... My XSP was far out of my viewing range, about a mile upslope . I could hear it, nobody up there but bobcats, so I wasn't worried. Then, I barely noticed on the dark iPad screen that cacti were getting closer, then REALLY close, so I stopped, turned around to come home. BAM! Looks like the camera hit one cactus square-on -- not going very fast, the XSP recovered quickly, so I didn't notice. It gets dark super-fast up there, I couldn't see a thing on the screen a minute later. I hit RTH, and it came right back. A learning experience for sure...
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