Hmmm I find that video kind of hard to believe. If it was indeed shot at and hit on the battery I would think the battery would have caught fire. The video looks staged to me. If the pellet broke through the arm those tiny little wires inside would be ripped apart.
I can't watch the video at the moment but i'l check it out later, if it's staged, I wonder if he was attempting to cash in a protection plan to get a new one.
That's a good idea btw, screen record every flight for that reason. Ive got the recorded video of this one, but if he would have hit it and it went down i wouldnt have, it was all fast moving water below it.
Agustine, Apollo11capcom: As for the battery - that was the first thing I thought. BOY if not staged, the battery held up nicely.
His statement at the end of the video about the battery had me believe he was crazy and flew it, in the condition he showed it in, looking like that?. I mean I would be curious also if my drone actually were hit and survived. He's lucky he didn't get a fireworks display.
He does lend further evidence of an actual pellet and the supposed damage the prop arm by showing one still there. If the pellet shot was for real - the angle of the stuck pellet and the damage, the hit caused where it landed -- does look passable.
As for damaging the wiring -- the prop arm seems to have took most of the force before the pellet got to the wiring. Should that pellet have sliced through that wiring -- YES! Since the plastic looks like it "held" as long as it could, the wires would have probably survived. Especially when bunched together or a ribbon type cable, there is more tensile strength for the pellet to compete against.
The few comments posted on this video, this gentlemen did reply to someone saying they knew who done it -- and it was a complicated matter. Could have been kids, or someone he be-grudged, or one of those lunatics that fear that you are peeping on them... kinda complicated? or last but not least... was it "Complicated: because it was staged and he was looking for an insurance payout?
--- Just odd though that he seems to be the perfect magician with luck and flying with a damaged battery and Evo prop arm without incident -- and show some type of video that you can only assume -- he got out that THAT Evo.
Apollo11capcom:
I forget who, what, where I learned of DU Recorder, as I have read so much here and watched so much YouTube about Evo -- but that was just one of many reasons I wanted to "record" my flights. In case of strike or strike/downed situations.
If everything aligns and certain systems continue functioning and I know it's a long-shot -- but not a bad idea, that you might get to see something more tangible than a blip on Google Maps and memories of what you last seen just happen.
I originally was looking at the app to "record" my flights -- so I could mux it together with the actual video from the Evo -- when in post video activities. Did not have the app but a day or two, and it seems to have updated that quickly - so seems to be a pretty maintained app.
The version I installed IMO works without dragging my phone down - Autel Explorer barely does that (btw) and don't even notice it running doing it's thing. It can capture and output up to 1080P.