DJI Avata - STUNNING STORY after drone crash near a military zone
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- in this surprisingly emotional adventure I talk about how an FPV drone crash and more failures turned to a really inspiring story because I was persistent enough. I destroyed my DJI Avata, but meanwhile I have a new one and I don't regret anything.
But the story goes deeper. It dives into some life aspects and the emotional connection between a viewer and a creator, I call this "the link". In my humble opinion, it is the true art of filmmaking to create such a link. Cameras etc. are awesome, I love it, but basically they are just tools to create a link. I'm maximum a 1st-year apprentice in this art... :)
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Saustark gemacht Andy💪👍. Hatte voll den Link. Danke für das wunderschöne Video mit toller Message🫶. Liebi Grüess, Rafi🙋🏻♂️
Hey Rafi, was für eine Freude, von Dir zu lesen. Tatsächlich habe ich am editieren an Dich gedacht, Du bist auch einer, der dieses Feuer hat. Deshalb auch der Goosebumps Satz am Anfang: "Inspired by Rafi" 😃👍. Herzlicher Gruss, Schwendi
@@TheLensSchwendiFür mich persönlich bist du ehrlich gesagt der Einzige in der Community, der in seinen Projekten eine Gänsehautgarantie hat. Die vielen kleinen Details, die tollen Bilder und die Message in deinen Videos sind das was so herausragend ist. Z.B. schon nur das da 17:13, ist mega nice gemacht👌. Bleib Gesund Schwendi🙌
@@TheGoldBuddies das tut so gut, wenn jemand wie Du sowas sagt! Es ist eben einfach so, dass ich genau das basteln an solchen Details liebe und ich habe den Eindruck, Du bist auch so einer :). Natürlich verzettle ich mich so und bin nicht so produktiv wie andere Zeitgenossen. Aber Du schreibst: "bleib gesund"...
Deshalb ist es wohl am besten, wenn wir all die RUclips Erfolgstipps in die Tonne treten und einfach das machen, was wir lieben... Bleib auch gesund, lieber Rafi!
Hoiii, ich bin in Chur geboren und aufgewachsen, nun wohne ich schon 46 Jahre in Bogotá, Kolumbien,. Ich weiss nicht wieviele Male ich auf dem Calanda wandern war, aber was Sie mit Ihrem Video mir gezeigt haben übertrifft alle meine Erinnerungen an meine Heimat und dem Calanda ! Ich danke Ihnen herzlich für dieses SUPER Geschenk diesen so urchigen Teil des Calandas kennen lernen zu dürfen. Sind fantastische Aufnahmen, welch alle meine Vorstellungen dieser Schluchten und Abrisse übertreffen ! Danke Ihnen, dass ich den Calanda in einer ganz neuen Perspektive bestaunen kann. Wüsche Ihnen alles Beste bei Ihren zukünftigen Abenteuer und viel Erfolg und Freude bei Ihren neuen Enteckungen, viele Grüsse aus Kolumbien, machen Sie weiter so zur Freude aller Ihrer Fan's 😊 Jonny A. Bögli
Hoi Jonny!!! 🤠👍 Vielen herzlichen Dank für diesen super netten Kommentar. Das hat mich wirklich riesig gefreut. Werde ich gleich meiner Frau erzählen. Genau solche Dinge sind es, die ich bei der Videographie so toll finde, wenn man auch anderen Menschen eine Freude machen kann. Also wirklich besten Dank fürs Schreiben, Sie haben mir den Tag versüsst. Und beste Grüsse aus Chur nach Bogotá!
Was für ein aufregendes Gänsehaut Abenteuer. Großartig, spannend und ein Wechselbad an Emotionen von Anfang bis Ende. Vielen Dank Schwendi und beste Grüße Wolfgang
Hallo Wolfgang, vielen Dank!! Das freut mich riesig. Für mich war es echt ein tolles Erlebnis, sowohl vor Ort, wie auch beim editieren. Und das Sahnehäubchen ist, wenn es Leuten wie Dir gefällt. Also danke nochmal und beste Grüsse!
Hello “Schwendi”! Thank you for showing us such a wonderful video! I feel so happy! I look forward to your next work! Have a nice day!
Thank you very much for this super nice comment!! That's really very nice of you! You have a nice day too, brother 🤠👍
An Spannung kaum zu überbieten und wie in allen Geschichten ein Happy End.
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Andy
Vielen herzlichen Dank!! Es war ein tolles Erlebnis und ich konnte es beim editieren nochmals durchleben. Liebe Grüsse aus Chur
Schwendi,I love your channel. Don't worry about haters online. The haters are jealous, and the hate they feel comes from a deep sense of the failure in there own lives. Stay positive my brother. I'm Jason from Alaska.
Hey Jason, thank you so much for kind words. Very true, I guess. I'll remember your advice 👍. It's sometimes not easy, but your advice sure helps. I guess, you still have snow in AK... Are you in the MatSu Valley? Here in Switzerland snow just came back. Thanks again for writing and have a great Sunday 👍
Schwendi love this video and your style. I really enjoyed how you narrated and pulled it all in to a continuous Journey of growth and adventure
Thank you so much my friend! Your feedback means something for me. There are so many rips and hacks, how to make successful YT videos. But I ingnored them all and just made the video the way, my heart told me to do. Sounds a bit melodramatic 😃, but it's true.
Hallo Schwendi. Was für ein tolles Video, was für eine klasse Geschichte. Deine Begeisterung ist greifbar und die Sache mit der vergessenen Drohne hätte mir so auch passieren können.
Gruß Gerhard
Hallo Gerhard, vielen Dank. Das war echt ein tolles Erlebnis. Und wegen der vergessenen Drohne: Lustig, das haben mir schon einige Kollegen gesagt, einer meinte sogar, er habe immer gedacht, sowas kann nur ihm passieren, haha. Ich wollte gerade fragen, wie Euer Neuseeland-Abenteuer war, aber ich habe gesehen, Du hast mir ein Email geschrieben. Freue mich, schon den Bericht zu lesen. Beste Grüsse von Schwendi!
Such an inspiration! You have great storytelling abilities! Keep it up!
Thank you so much for this great feedback! I aapreciate! Have a great day 👍
Wie immer ein Meisterwerk ❤😊
Dankä vilmol ❤️
Einfach toll Deine Videos und die Art wie Du sie erzählst! Großes Kino! Grüßle aus dem Nordschwarzwald. Harald PS: Und ich hab immer noch keine Drohne!!!
Hallo Harald, vielen herzlichen Dank. Das freut mich sehr. Ich kann Dir wirklich empfehlen, es mal mit einer Drohne zu versuchen. Macht echt Spass. Herzlicher Gruss aus dem Süden
Willst Du meine alte DJI Spark um mal mit Drohne zu starten? Ich würd sie Dir schenken.
@@TheLensSchwendi Schick Dir eine Mail!
Eigentlich hat Rafi schon alles gesagt. Was mir aufgefallen ist, du hast beim Finden der Drohne wieder schweizerisch gesprochen 🤣.
Alles gut Andreas. Mach deinen Stil der Videos. Du hast deinen Anspruch auf super Qualität und den kann dir keiner nehmen.
Beste Grüße und bleib so lebendig wie du bist. Glück Auf 👍🤠
Vielen lieben Dank Peter, daa hat mich sehr gefreut. Und ja, in gewissen emotionalen Situationen rede ich so... 😃😃😃.
Nochmals vielen herzlichen Dank und schöne Grüsse aus den Schweizer Bergen
I enjoyed the follow-up. You are indeed a story-teller!
Is there going to be another episode with the video of the impact as captured on the drone? I have been having a slow motion exchange with DJI about some small damage to my Avata after I experienced the "yaw turn" bug earlier this year (although it was a different kind of manoeuvre that induced the fast pitch forward to inverted and subsequent hard crash into the ground). Since then I only fly with a small piece of electrical tape over the SD card door as that opened in the crash and was damaged by the still spinning prop. The damage is such that I don't really trust the door to stay shut by itself now. Maybe you still have your damaged drone as I can not find any other way to get just a replacement "door" and I don't want to pay NZ $50 for the whole prop guard including door part! 🙂
You are lucky to live in such a wonderful area. I can't complain about my area either but there are not quite the same opportunities for 1000 metres dives that I think you have! It looks to me that if you could find your way to about 46° 51.237'N 9° 28.340'E then this should be possible, allowing also for the DJI hard coded maximum height of 500 metres above the take-off point. I look forward to maybe seeing that one in the future also! (First I spent a lot of time in Google Earth "flying" around Switzerland trying to geo-locate the flight location. A few minutes after finding the right town but also not recognising it for sure I read the full description for your video. Hah!)
Have you ever tried geocaching? I ask only because there is a geocache fairly close to where I live called "Chur Bro!", or similar, and in NZ slang that is roughly equivalent to saying "thank you!" and giving a big thumbs up. 🙂
Well, I have to thank you!! I appreciate taking the time to watch and write. The coordinates you shared are pretty much exactly the area, where I plan to fly next 😃. And you encourage me even more to do it! I hope I don't crash it there, because this slope is extremely dangerous due to rockfall. So I wont be go there to save the drone, if it crashed. But I guess I will try...
Yeah, it was my plan to show you the footage of the crash, that's why I desperately wanted to save the drone. But unfortunately, the footage on the SD card of the drone stopped recording about 10s before the crash. I guess, this is because the footage is first in a buffer before being safed on the SD card and at the moment of the crash, it stopped writing on the SD card. So the closest footage to the crash is the goggle recording, which I showed in the video. I should have mentioned the other thing, but the video was already getting very long and I didn't want to make it longer.
So thanks again for writing and for your inspiring tip about the 1000m dive. I will check out later, if there is snow up there or if I can get there safe and sound. Have a nice weekend!
Ah yes - concerning of the last part of the flight not recording to the SD card on the drone after a hard crash, the same thing happened to me so I should have thought of that. In my crash I did not lose transmission though and so the goggle recording was complete.
Also I think you mentioned in your video that after losing transmission you hoped the drone would switch to normal mode, and execute a return to home. I think the problem here is that the Avata has to lose transmission for 3.5 seconds before it starts doing anything like that. So if you are flying fast and/or in close proximity to ground, etc., it may be too late!
With my Mini 2 it is 11 seconds and I have tested that, but it seems riskier to test the Avata's behaviour especially in manual mode and so I've not yet attempted that. I do keep meaning to try it though, in a nice clear and flat area, in slow straight and level flight at a safe height, with someone else watching the drone carefully, etc., then turning off the remote controller and hoping it doesn't do something really stupid like immediately dive into the ground!
Last thing - some years ago I got very excited by wing suit base jumping. (Not quite excited enough to try it though!) No doubt you have seen the videos also. One I watched many times on YT was Jeb Corliss "Grinding the Crack". A search will find it easily. I managed to work out where that was filmed and saved the position in Google Earth. Now I see that spot is only about 35 km from Chur (as a bird flies). Maybe it is time for an Avata to reproduce that flight in some way? It seems it could be possible! Use a similar title and the same music (like another featuring a cat - "Kitty Corliss Grinding the crack") and you might achieve a similarly massive number of views!
Good luck!!
@@CNoEvilNZ ah, that's very interesting, thank you for telling me. In 3.5 seconds, the drone would have made about 70 meters or more at that speed, so it sure crashed into the rocks before 3.5 seconds were over.
Meanwhile I did some research about the coordinates you mentioned above. Unfortunately, it's a a wildlife rest zone, so I'm not allowed to fly down there. It's really a pity, I would have loved this and I was already planning to do it this weekend. So game over with this project.
But thank you about mentioning the Grinding the Crack video. As a matter of fact I know this crazy video and the exact location as well. I normally don't copy others and try to find my own "path". But I'll think about it, so thank you very much. I have a few other spots here in mind as well. There are really endless possibilities, but many of the easily accessible spots are protected, so I have to hike or bike a bit. Looking forward to it.
Thanks again for taking the time, I really appreciate!
@@TheLensSchwendi - I thought you may be interested to know I finally tested the behaviour of my Avata (in manual mode) yesterday when transmission is lost.
I tested two things. First what happens if the signal to the Goggles (Goggles 2 in my case) is lost (but the controller still has working connection). I did this by turning off the Goggles with the drone in a relatively stable slow forward flight at a safe height above the ground. This appeared to result in a short delay (perhaps around the 3.5 seconds that the manual mentions) and then direct return to home initiated (as per my settings) in normal mode. After that I did a separate test where from a similar position I turned the controller off but left my Goggles on. In this case the drone appeared to switch to normal mode immediately, then retraced its preceding path for about 50 metres (actually going away from me) and then commenced a return to home, climbing to preset altitude, etc. This behaviour (retracing about 50 metres of the preceding flight path and then doing a RTH) is what I have also seen when testing my DJI Mini 2 previously using a similar method (turning off controller) to see what happens when transmission between controller and aircraft is lost.
So now I have just looked again at your Goggle recording from when your Avata crashed in the canyon. As far as I can see the signal from the remote controller to the aircraft was possibly still quite strong even though the image transmission back from the aircraft to the Googles was lost. (This is the pattern I usually see, with the Goggles transmission being less robust that the outgoing signal from the remote controller.) I know there is no use "crying over spilt milk" but possibly you could have quickly increased power and maybe also pulled back a bit on the right-hand stick to fly the aircraft out of the canyon "blind" (with the Goggles no longer receiving video feed from the drone). Or perhaps even hitting the "brake button" very quickly would have worked. I try to have myself "primed" to do something like this when flying in a situation where it might be necessary but 3.5 seconds isn't much time to realise what is happening and also react!
In any case, if there is a "next time" I hope this might help! :-)
@@CNoEvilNZ hey, thank you so much for sharing your insight, that's really valuable! I truly appreciate! As a matter of fact, I did desperately throttle up the power to lift the drone out off the canyon, but I'm afraid, my manoevre was too hard, or even in my panic I was maybe also yawing and rolling. So if the control still had contact, maybe my panic reaction crashed the drone in the wall of the canyon. I can't say for sure, but that's a real possibility. But your experiment is very helpful, cause if this ever happens again, I'll try the brake button. That's what I should have done. I have to practice this in the simulator, i.e. being fast enough. I not really use the brake button very often, so I have to find him first in an emergency :). So, thanks again, this was very interesting!
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Dankä, ich füel mich geehrt 👍
Schwendi, da hast du die Drohnensuche nach 'epic art' gestaltet. Dass sie stressig sein kann, habe ich selbst schon gemerkt. Gruß Karl.
Vielen Dank, Karl. Ja bei der Suche habe ich doch einige Schweissperlen vergossen 😃. Aber die Gegend dort ist so speziell, dass es trotzdem ein tolles Erlebnis war. LG Schwendi
@@TheLensSchwendi Für meine Kondi wär' die Avata unerreichbar gewesen. 😂
@@karlbesser1696 ich war auch nicht sicher, ob ich es schaffe... Wenn sie 100m weiter unten gelandet wäre, wäre es zu gefährlich und steil gewesen, auch wegen Steinschlag und so. Ich hatte Glück...
@@TheLensSchwendi Ab und zu schlägt das Glück zu.
@@karlbesser1696 ja, so ist es...
Interessante und schöne Geschichte. Bietet DJI für diese Drohnen nicht auch eine Versicherung an?
Herzlichen Dank! Ja tatsächlich gibt es solche Versicherungen. Muss ich mir vielleicht überlegen... Aber eigentlich will ich schon sicher fliegen lernen. Brauche wohl einfach noch etwas Zeit. Lg Schwendi
@@TheLensSchwendi In deinem Fall hätten sie die abgestürzte Drohne wohl bezahlt (abzgl. Selbstbehalt und Versicherungprämie), aber immer noch lohnend oder evt. repariert. Die Versicherung muss aber nach der Inbetriebnahme aktiviert werden. Ob das bei FPV Drohnen auch angeboten wird, weiss ich nicht, da ja die Absturzgefahr hier eher grösser ist, als bei Standard-Drohnen.
@@Alpentarn ich muss aber auch ehrlich sagen, dass der Absturz 100% meine eigene Schuld war. Also OK für mich. Ich muss einfach vorsichtiger fliegen, so einfach ist das. Ich konnte noch von einem anderen Drohnenpiloten eine defekte Avata günstig kaufen, bei der das GPS Modul unversehrt ist. Sobald ich dazu komme, versuche ich, aus den zwei kaputten Drohnen eine ganze zu machen. Und die neue, die ich gekauft habe, behalte ich natürlich. So habe ich dann im Idealfall zwei Drohnen, falls ich mal wieder in Alaska oder sonst an einem abgelegenen Ort bin.
Danka für de Film so hani de Calanda no nit gseh , weiter so , schad das es uf Englisch gsprocha isch und nit Dialekt .
Danka, freut mi sehr, dass es Dir gfalla het. Das mit dr Sproch isch sona Sach... Dütsch wär natürli au vil eifacher für mi, aber i han sehr vil Fründa und Bekannti us nid dütschsprochiga Länder. Drum hani mi entschida, bi Englisch z bliba (mini erschta Videos sind über Alaska gsi). Lg und guata Start mora 🤠👍
😳✅😁🐐👍👍👍😮!!!
Thank you! I appreciate!
@@TheLensSchwendi Schwendi, Is that Two Drones ☠️☠️ capturing the moment ???
Great cinematic composition… as always!!!
The things we do waiting for AU season to begin!!!
All the best
Gerard
@@gerardange Thank you so much, Gerard! In fact now I have two drones. The footage with snow was shot with "Schwendi 2", the other footage with "Schwendi 1" 😃. "Schwendi 1" is still broken and I'll try to repair it as soon as I find the time.
All the best to you too!
Schwendi