Decided to go fly the drone after work today. I went to Almonte, Ontario today as I wanted arial pictures and footage of the falls. I setup and started the drone, connected with my Remote controller and started a flight. Within a second of me taking off, the battery popped off the drone. I had thought again that that I lost the drone or at least severely damaged it as it fell at least 15 feet onto some rocks. The battery was easy to get. Just climbed over the wall and got the battery within 30 seconds. The drone wasn't easy to get. Had to climb down rocks to the base of the waterfalls. The rocks were slippery from the spray from the falls. There was a lot of moss which did not help. Luckily I was able to retrieve the drone. It took about half an hour to retrieve the drone.
Luckily the only damage to the drone was to one of the propellors which were easily replaced. I decided to fly again and the drone started to act weird. When I tried to land it, it literally took off on my climbing up at least 30 metres. I luckily got control of the drone and brought it back down. It would not land at all. I literally had to grab it by the underside of the drone and remove the battery from the drone to get it to stop.
After this debacle I wanted to just go home and not fly the drone again as I feared losing a second drone within a month. But I gave the drone a second chance and flew it out maybe 25 metres and just started taking shots and video. Luckily the DJI Spark did not act up. I got what I wanted and I just left. Luckily the only damage to the drone was the rear left propellors had to be replaced which was easily done.
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