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Hi folks!
After many hours of fun with my GoPro Karma, I crashed it for the first time yesterday. I just wanted to perform a short flight because the weather was fine. It was afternoon and the sun was right above the horizon. Although I flew this place many times before, this time I was too reckless. I was too fast, too low and the drone crossed the sun and I looked directly into it. So I lost sight and hit into a tree.
The Karma crashed all propellers an hit into the mud. I was very lucky because of the soft mud no arms were broken. It doesn't even have a scratch. The only part that got damaged is the front glass lens cover of my Hero 6. It got scratched and you can see those scratches on the video now. I need to replace it. I want to share my footage with you to help you prevent making the same mistake I did. The main problem for me was the sun. I will never fly again in front of the afternoon sun.
The Karma worked fine as always. It was all my own fault. Sorry, Karma.
Here is the footage:
After many hours of fun with my GoPro Karma, I crashed it for the first time yesterday. I just wanted to perform a short flight because the weather was fine. It was afternoon and the sun was right above the horizon. Although I flew this place many times before, this time I was too reckless. I was too fast, too low and the drone crossed the sun and I looked directly into it. So I lost sight and hit into a tree.
The Karma crashed all propellers an hit into the mud. I was very lucky because of the soft mud no arms were broken. It doesn't even have a scratch. The only part that got damaged is the front glass lens cover of my Hero 6. It got scratched and you can see those scratches on the video now. I need to replace it. I want to share my footage with you to help you prevent making the same mistake I did. The main problem for me was the sun. I will never fly again in front of the afternoon sun.
The Karma worked fine as always. It was all my own fault. Sorry, Karma.
Here is the footage: