Horse Bowls Over Drone Pilot

https://youtu.be/iX6g4olPOOI

Italy-based drone pilot Gianmarco Gabriele was filming a horse in full gallop, flying his drone around it, when the animal ran full-bore toward him.

Because he was flying a first-person view drone, or FPV, with a full headset and handheld radio controls, he didn’t see it coming. The horse bowled him over, knocking off his headset and sending the drone, pilotless, into the dirt a few yards away.

You can see what he was filming on the unhappy end here:

https://youtu.be/K2aW5XSwfPM

Sources:  Instagram; Vice

2 comments

  1. Any good photographer or videographer knows you MUST have a spotter for exactly this type of situation. When your are in first-person mode looking through the viewfinder of your camera or in this case your UAV, you are only aware of what you see through that viewfinder.

    I hope that the only damage was to the operators pride.

  2. An excellent example of why you MUST have a spotter when flying FPV.
    Can it be illustrated any more explicitly than this?

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