Camping Silver Lake State Park | Drone Crash | Return to Little Sable Point

September 4, 2020. We went back out to the dunes in the hopes of getting some Mavic Pro footage of the more northern part of the ORV area, and especially the route from the ORV parking lot onto the dunes. Unfortunately it was much more windy and the Mavic Pro struggled with the wind. We got a "battery overheating on discharge" message on the controller, and then a NOT CONNECTED. Luckily one of the nice ORV people gave me a ride over to wear the GPS said the drone was and we found it within seconds. The bad news: the drone has a Navigation Error, probably from a cracked circuit board, although possibly just from a broken antenna. Either way it is basically totaled. The good news: It is insured and State Farm sent a check out right after I notified them. We now have a refurbished Mavic Pro Platinum.

Unfortunately, we didn't have a drone for more videos for the rest of the trip. This video does include some additional footage from August 30, 2020 however.