As a veteran FPV drone pilot, I love seeing the amazement and ingenuity new FPV pilots have when solving their problems. Using Mavics as rescue drones is a bit of a tradition in the FPV world. Perhaps even a right of passage. The smile and joy at the end when you finally get the drone back and realize that it's pretty much still works is what makes this hobby so great. Thanks for sharing your adventure and happiness in this video!
@@Formulemedia There are a lot of ways to recover dromes. Depending on where you're stranded, different approaches will work. A mavic drone with hooks or a net work great for drones that are lying on roofs what are difficult to access. Drones that get caught in trees can be recovered by climbing a tree so ladders are a great way to get there but if you're not ready to risk your life just yet, a rope with a water bottle serves as an easy (but very portable) way to get access to a branch in the tree that you can then start pulling hoping the drone falls out. There's also long sticks (dronegrabber?) that you can buy. They are a bit more expensive than a rope but typically a bit more effective in the tree scenario. Joshua Bardwell made a video about that a few years ago, going over the several ways you can recover a drone. The one thing that ALWAYS comes in handy in the process is HOPE and some positive energy though! Hope this helps you get some insight in the funny advenctures us drone nerds have when things go south 🤣
@@roylaon Both or fine frames to fly with. Personally I am a big fan of the GepRC MK5. It's been very good for me but the nazgul is very popular as well. The internals can differ depending on where you buy it or who built it so there's not real simple answer here. Just look up the parts that will be in there and see if they fit your requirements (4S vs 6S, your RX protocol, your goggle's protocol, etc) and obviously your budget. One thing that I do think could come in handy is checking if you can source replacements parts for that drone easily in your location. You will be doing this so it's worth figuring out if you can fix the drone easily once you've flown/crashed it. Hope this helps! Happy flying!
This is Awesome! Well done you! Great storytelling, great rescue, and the commercial was just the cherry on top. I am happy that you manage to lift this drone. Well done Peter! 👏👏👏👏👍👍🖖
This is my greatest fear when flying my FPV drones. I typically don't get "epic" footage because I'm so scared to lose my drones. 😢 I can feel the disappointment in your tone and see it in your face when you crash. I feel for you there. Then the excitement when you get it rescued... Unbelievable happy moment! This rescue is amazing! Already scheming on testing out my own rescue setup with my Air 2S. 😆
What a *comeback* after the vacation, wonderfull storytelling, having some time off obviously did you good :) Also, just wanted to take this opportunity to leave a big, fat THANK YOU!! for all the inspiration, great content and constant motivation over the past 3-4-ish years. I FINALLY managed to finish my *first proper edit*, and UPLOAD last weekend as well - Because of all your videos (especially, but not limited to, the poker b-roll, but everything else as well) I've discovered a whole new world of 'can do' and some other great and entertaining creators as well, and it have finally culiminiated in a proper video on my own channel, and now the grind begins ... So THANK YOU again, very much looking forward to the run up to the next chapter with the house studio and where it's all going, have a great end of summer :D
Very entertaining and seriously impressive precision flying! I'm just wondering: if the magnet was stuck to the FPV drone and it would've gotten stuck, or the Mavic fell below the maximum towing power, how would you have been able to release the FPV drone so you could get the Mavic 3 back to safety? I suppose you could lower the drone first to release tension from the rope and then fly upwards quickly so the magnet snaps off? Curious to hear how you tackled this!
@@PeterLindgren1 dude! wish you would upload the footage of that! I was thinking you dropped tension off the string and maneuvered so the loop came off the hook on the magnet. So you determined before flight what strength string to use first?
It's funny this pops up because just I few days ago, I did just about the same thing, except using my original Mavic Mini. Tied a long string to the bottom of it with a rock tied on to the bottom. It was a rescue mission to get a Mavic Mini 3 pro out of a tall tree. It lifted the rock quite well. I was impressed with it. It didn't end up working through, so I had to climb the tree almost all the way up which was a little tough, but I got it.
Nice job Peter! I've had to do the same kind of rescue before from a drone stuck on a 3 story apartment roof, but I used an improvised Hook on a short string. My biggest fear was the hook would get stuck on something and now I've lost two drones.
Just ordered one of those magnets for my drone recovery pole. The motors are also super magnetic and would have been where I probably would have tried first. Drone recovery and dropping fishing lures out to sea would be a great reason to get my old phantom working again. Not sure if I'd have taken the chance with a Mavic 3 unless I had a way to break away if the magnet got stuck.
I'm curious if you had a plan if the magnets stuck, but the mavic could not lift the load? I guess trying to unhook the magnets could work, like what happened by accident.
Hey Peter, thank you for all the amazing content. I have a question I can’t seem to find the answer anywhere. Can I buy just a DJI controler, use it with their simulator software and only buy the drone and goggles once I feel confident with flying or do I have to buy the full kit all at once?
At 7:46 you said that the only magnetic part on a drone are the screws. I haven't finished watching the video at this point, but I hope you know by now that the motors are extremely magnetic.
I used a Mavic with a magnet in the same way to retrieve a set of keys that had gotten tossed into the gutter on a three-story apartment building. One thing that I did was to use a servo-controlled remote "dropper" to attach the string to the rescue drone. I was very concerned that without the ability to break free of the line I might get the rescue Mavic stuck if the magnet attached to a heavier object or if the keys became tangled on the way out of the gutter. The dropper gave me a failsafe in that I could release the string and abandon the magnet if needed to save my Mavic.
good idea. BTW falloutdjsteve, what do you think about all gubments drawing a line around you(Antarctic Treaty) and saying you are not allowed to leave? If you don't know what I mean, read my about tab.
Hej Peter tack för en rolig video 🙏🏽 Står inför köpet mellan Nazgul Evoque v2 vs GepRc Mark5 och undrar vilken du skulle rekommendera mellan de två? Mvh
Alternative solution: Package delivery harness on drones like Mavic series, hang hook/line from package delivery harness, if the line gets snagged, you can release the line and prevent losing a 2nd drone.
did the vtx survive too? thats the thing that tends to burn out smart move to not tie the magnets to tied otherwise you could have been teathered to the drone if it got stuck ^^ i think the motors are magnetic too?
Amazing rescue and feel good video. :) I was thinking about my DJI FPV, with it's lighning acceleration I think it calculates a lifting calculation above 1.5kg. tnx for the magnet tip, I hope it will not come into use, but we never know, fingers crossed :D
So with the two magnets what was the total weight of the rescue drone? 🤔 I would have guessed the video would have ended with two lost drones, with the second lost after battery death because it couldn't pick the first due to the total weight, and getting stuck due to the magnets not releasing. The follow up video would have featured an industrial bigger drone or two doing a team lift. 😅
I did the same. I crashed my quad on school roof.. Very inaccessible as they were higher than any commercial available ladders. I went back home and grabbed my Mavic Pro. I transformed cloth hanging into triple-claw. I just realized, the quad on roof was still powered. I had to cover up conductive metal with electric tape. Successfully retrieved it! This is the reason why I will never sell my Mavic Pro.
As a veteran FPV drone pilot, I love seeing the amazement and ingenuity new FPV pilots have when solving their problems. Using Mavics as rescue drones is a bit of a tradition in the FPV world. Perhaps even a right of passage. The smile and joy at the end when you finally get the drone back and realize that it's pretty much still works is what makes this hobby so great. Thanks for sharing your adventure and happiness in this video!
Interesting point! How do you usually recollect them? With magnets too?
@@Formulemedia There are a lot of ways to recover dromes. Depending on where you're stranded, different approaches will work. A mavic drone with hooks or a net work great for drones that are lying on roofs what are difficult to access. Drones that get caught in trees can be recovered by climbing a tree so ladders are a great way to get there but if you're not ready to risk your life just yet, a rope with a water bottle serves as an easy (but very portable) way to get access to a branch in the tree that you can then start pulling hoping the drone falls out. There's also long sticks (dronegrabber?) that you can buy. They are a bit more expensive than a rope but typically a bit more effective in the tree scenario. Joshua Bardwell made a video about that a few years ago, going over the several ways you can recover a drone. The one thing that ALWAYS comes in handy in the process is HOPE and some positive energy though! Hope this helps you get some insight in the funny advenctures us drone nerds have when things go south 🤣
@@roylaon Both or fine frames to fly with. Personally I am a big fan of the GepRC MK5. It's been very good for me but the nazgul is very popular as well. The internals can differ depending on where you buy it or who built it so there's not real simple answer here. Just look up the parts that will be in there and see if they fit your requirements (4S vs 6S, your RX protocol, your goggle's protocol, etc) and obviously your budget. One thing that I do think could come in handy is checking if you can source replacements parts for that drone easily in your location. You will be doing this so it's worth figuring out if you can fix the drone easily once you've flown/crashed it. Hope this helps! Happy flying!
seems an unspoken rule of flying drones, if there is even the littlest obstacle that you might crash into, your drone WILL find it.
So many epic fpv drone recoveries from you Peter! Glad to see this one survived
Hahahaha!!
@@PeterLindgren1 hope you made a drone cash and recovery playlist on your channel
This is Awesome! Well done you! Great storytelling, great rescue, and the commercial was just the cherry on top. I am happy that you manage to lift this drone. Well done Peter! 👏👏👏👏👍👍🖖
What a Rescue! That was amazing!!!!
Unbelievable
This is my greatest fear when flying my FPV drones. I typically don't get "epic" footage because I'm so scared to lose my drones. 😢
I can feel the disappointment in your tone and see it in your face when you crash. I feel for you there. Then the excitement when you get it rescued... Unbelievable happy moment!
This rescue is amazing! Already scheming on testing out my own rescue setup with my Air 2S. 😆
They aren't that expensive (assuming you are building yourself). Risking 300 bucks for an amazing shot is not so bad as far as videography goes.
love the acting Peter would like to see more of that!
The King of Drone rescues!
Hahahaha 😂
Ingenuity and luck 🍀 congrats on getting the drone back 🎉
Your genuine hard laughter was so great to watch :)
And *finally* some proper Kurt Olsson-Göteborsk-English as well, great Sponsorship-segment :)
Ajjemeeeeen!
@@PeterLindgren1 … «Men Herr Lindgren, hur bredt har ni egentligen filmat?»
This video has officially earned my subscription
That was so awesome!!!! Glad you were able to retrieve it.
Best video ever! Especially the sponsorship! 😂
Thanks buddy 😂
OMG. Talk about a nail biter. Love a happy ending. Loved this, Peter. I was punching the air at the end. Great job 👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Beautifully told story! Thanks @peter!
haha FANTASTIC video! Sat like clued to the screen the whole time 😂
That Artlist commercial was 🔥🔥🔥
You earned a problem solving degree there, my friend. Great job!
DUDE!!!! This was amazing!!!! I was actually cheering at the end. Well done! 🤘
This is a good advertisement for those magnets and the durability of the geprc. 👍👍
Most wholesome and authentic laugh ever at the end :))) Point of no return has been reached. U got urself a new follower now ;)
Wow!!! Amazing work! Epic storytelling man!
What a *comeback* after the vacation, wonderfull storytelling, having some time off obviously did you good :) Also, just wanted to take this opportunity to leave a big, fat THANK YOU!! for all the inspiration, great content and constant motivation over the past 3-4-ish years. I FINALLY managed to finish my *first proper edit*, and UPLOAD last weekend as well - Because of all your videos (especially, but not limited to, the poker b-roll, but everything else as well) I've discovered a whole new world of 'can do' and some other great and entertaining creators as well, and it have finally culiminiated in a proper video on my own channel, and now the grind begins ... So THANK YOU again, very much looking forward to the run up to the next chapter with the house studio and where it's all going, have a great end of summer :D
Great story 🎉
This could be the best ad for the mavic 3 ever
This was epic. Well done for not giving up!
bro looked like he was about to cry when he lost it i can feel his pain everyone who has lost an fpv know that
Best ad inside the middle of video from artlist, that was super cool, i always skip those, but this one i watched even 3 x :D
Hahaha thank you 🙌🏼!
Who would have thought a video about rescuing a FPV drone could be so entertaining? Lol great job Peter!
Very entertaining and seriously impressive precision flying! I'm just wondering: if the magnet was stuck to the FPV drone and it would've gotten stuck, or the Mavic fell below the maximum towing power, how would you have been able to release the FPV drone so you could get the Mavic 3 back to safety? I suppose you could lower the drone first to release tension from the rope and then fly upwards quickly so the magnet snaps off? Curious to hear how you tackled this!
That's exactly what i did, the tension of flying up fast made it loose grip. But if it were to get stuck, the string was weak enough to be ripped off!
@@PeterLindgren1 dude! wish you would upload the footage of that! I was thinking you dropped tension off the string and maneuvered so the loop came off the hook on the magnet.
So you determined before flight what strength string to use first?
Yep! @@WW5RM
I'm so happy because of your drone :)
I’ve cut my fingers with those magnets clamping down and it catching the edge of it. Great job Peter!! Love the outside the box thinking💪🏼
It is a thriller, man!😮
Great story telling. Almost feels like a tv show 😁💪🏻
It's funny this pops up because just I few days ago, I did just about the same thing, except using my original Mavic Mini. Tied a long string to the bottom of it with a rock tied on to the bottom. It was a rescue mission to get a Mavic Mini 3 pro out of a tall tree. It lifted the rock quite well. I was impressed with it. It didn't end up working through, so I had to climb the tree almost all the way up which was a little tough, but I got it.
That was AWESOME!!!
Peter is a FPV god he's taught me a lot of what I know keep up the rad content
Amazing Peter ❤❤
Woah!!! I felt as if I was there with you guys!!!
Nice job Peter! I've had to do the same kind of rescue before from a drone stuck on a 3 story apartment roof, but I used an improvised Hook on a short string. My biggest fear was the hook would get stuck on something and now I've lost two drones.
Yeah, I was too scared to use a hook haha!
that was some serious precision flying but luckily you got it back with no damage
Brilliant idea man!!!
Bro this remembered me the Casey Neistat Vlog when he rescued his drone successfully. Great video! Didn’t knew how capable mavic 3 was lifting 💪
Where is the mission impossible theme when it is needed :D
Good stuff, amazing job!
I love how the voice changes based on language that your speaking hahaha love the content ❤
what a thrilller Peter!!!🤣🤣
You could also save the lost magnets with a magnet if you haven't done that already :)
I'm certain the grip will be amazing
This is awesome!
Great Video man!
Luckily you've got that drone back! ❤️
Grattis, grymt bra jobbat gubbZ
Phantom and inspire also has good lifting capacity. Could be used as rescue drone.. but yeah, the mavic 3 is a beast
Next mission rescue the lost magnets!! 😂
Awesome! This was so entertaining to watch!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching 💪🏼
Nä fan vad coolt!!!! Sjukt att det funkade!!
That was amazing, I literally had shivers up my spine. Your story telling is amazing. Thank you!
Hi Peter, awesome vid as always. What are those things you have on the antennas of your goggles 2? Are they range extenders of some kind?
awesome man!
This ad spot was incredible. 😂😂😂
lucky you - good job too !!! i lost a 5inch and all i had was a mini 2 , its a few months now and i still miss my lovely 5inch with vista 😒
P3 or P4 would hav great in this condition 🔥♥️
I may consider buying an inspire then :P glad you got it back
Just ordered one of those magnets for my drone recovery pole. The motors are also super magnetic and would have been where I probably would have tried first. Drone recovery and dropping fishing lures out to sea would be a great reason to get my old phantom working again. Not sure if I'd have taken the chance with a Mavic 3 unless I had a way to break away if the magnet got stuck.
Not close to good enough grip on the motors unfortunately!
What about the magnets?!!! Have you rescued them as well? I was waiting for it 😂
I'm curious if you had a plan if the magnets stuck, but the mavic could not lift the load? I guess trying to unhook the magnets could work, like what happened by accident.
Haha I did not 😂
Haha, sometimes the best successes come from just sending it 👌
Hey Peter, thank you for all the amazing content. I have a question I can’t seem to find the answer anywhere.
Can I buy just a DJI controler, use it with their simulator software and only buy the drone and goggles once I feel confident with flying or do I have to buy the full kit all at once?
Dude, you're laughing like a maniac. That's scary O_O
After 4 hours of trying, it was pure happiness.
Im Looking at my Mavic 3.
Its ready to RESCUE.
hahaha
Well done
I think I would have been equally as happy !
At 7:46 you said that the only magnetic part on a drone are the screws. I haven't finished watching the video at this point, but I hope you know by now that the motors are extremely magnetic.
Yup, but you cant get a good grip on them. They’re too rounded to be able to have a secure lift grip. Trust me, I tried several times.
FPV quads are like race cars and camera drones are like safety cars
I used a Mavic with a magnet in the same way to retrieve a set of keys that had gotten tossed into the gutter on a three-story apartment building. One thing that I did was to use a servo-controlled remote "dropper" to attach the string to the rescue drone. I was very concerned that without the ability to break free of the line I might get the rescue Mavic stuck if the magnet attached to a heavier object or if the keys became tangled on the way out of the gutter. The dropper gave me a failsafe in that I could release the string and abandon the magnet if needed to save my Mavic.
good idea.
BTW falloutdjsteve, what do you think about all gubments drawing a line around you(Antarctic Treaty) and saying you are not allowed to leave? If you don't know what I mean, read my about tab.
great interesting video mate. so entertaining. very different and engaging content mate. cheers
Hej Peter tack för en rolig video 🙏🏽
Står inför köpet mellan Nazgul Evoque v2 vs GepRc Mark5 och undrar vilken du skulle rekommendera mellan de två? Mvh
Alternative solution: Package delivery harness on drones like Mavic series, hang hook/line from package delivery harness, if the line gets snagged, you can release the line and prevent losing a 2nd drone.
did the vtx survive too? thats the thing that tends to burn out
smart move to not tie the magnets to tied otherwise you could have been teathered to the drone if it got stuck ^^
i think the motors are magnetic too?
Yup, everything works!
Give the mavic oscar
That's amazing
Awesome Video
This is so epic 😂🙌
Imagine the magnet gets hooked up on some branch of the tree.
Who's rescuing the Mavic 3 then?
Well, I guess we’ll find out if that happens 😎
Great!
Amazing rescue and feel good video. :)
I was thinking about my DJI FPV, with it's lighning acceleration I think it calculates a lifting calculation above 1.5kg. tnx for the magnet tip, I hope it will not come into use, but we never know, fingers crossed :D
Very nice rescue mission :) DId you retrieve the other dropped magnets as well now that you were already aceing it? :D
That is awesome. Congrats! Thanks for taking us along on the adventure.
Everyone loves a happy ending 😎
I just lost my Avata off a huge mountain. I might have to try this!
So with the two magnets what was the total weight of the rescue drone? 🤔 I would have guessed the video would have ended with two lost drones, with the second lost after battery death because it couldn't pick the first due to the total weight, and getting stuck due to the magnets not releasing. The follow up video would have featured an industrial bigger drone or two doing a team lift. 😅
It was a total weight of 1000g 😮
Ok... an Epic and successful recovery mission. Did u rescue the first set of magnets? Just curious
Can you do the production stage of the video of throwing the lens in the air?
Thanks for the video! Enjoyed it a lot!😂
insane
Need subtitle translation for @10:38 😂😂😂
Hey i was wondering how you were able to put in a new battery in the mavic if it was attatched to the fpv? 9:50
love the vids
Lowered the drone & quickly pushed up!
Should have used the inspire.
And risk getting that crashed 😂?
@@PeterLindgren1 Haha, that’s a point, but do you have the care pro?
How did u disconnect the magnet from the mk5 when the mavic couldn't lift it?
Lowered the drone and then quickly pulled up. Made the magnet come loose
I thought for a moment how bad it would be if u couldn't connect it. But you'd probably need a much more solid connection for it to not come loose
I did the same. I crashed my quad on school roof.. Very inaccessible as they were higher than any commercial available ladders. I went back home and grabbed my Mavic Pro. I transformed cloth hanging into triple-claw. I just realized, the quad on roof was still powered. I had to cover up conductive metal with electric tape. Successfully retrieved it!
This is the reason why I will never sell my Mavic Pro.
Epic salvation 🚁😂💪