Recent content by Macam

Great shots, great location for drones. Many possibilities....

I can guarantee the video is not fake, sorry. It is a little bit produced, sometimes called edited. I slo-mo’d the chase by 50% and croped it by 20%, so that you could see the birds clearer. Other than that, it’s how it happened.

Yes, Thanks for that. Its mid winter here in Aust I doubt they would be nesting. I think they are apex hunters and they chase anything that is food size and moves. A white phantom is about the same size as a seagull or pigeon. The day they nearly got me, I was flying about 2 miles from where I...

Does anybody know if you can record downstream video o a P4A+ to the SD card?

P4A+ I've only had it a month, supposed to do 50mph in sport mode- no GPS or Ob avoidance.

P.S. I havn't tried sports mode yet...

Thanks Brad, Having done a bit more research it seems the trouble with going high is you have to be able to out-run and out-maneuver these masters of the sky, not to mention battery power.

Thanks for that, sounds like a good strategy. But in my situation, I was low, around 6 ft, in open country with 2 big wedgie's circling about 50 ft above. I had observed at home that when eagles flew overhead all the small birds immediately hid in the nearest tree. So I made a dash for small...

It is hard to judge their size, they typically grow to 6-7ft wingspan. I have seen a shot of a drone in a nest, not a happy ending.

Yesterday I had a close encounter with 2 Wedge tailed eagles, and survived it. Should you run or should you hide ? Or should you land ? Anybody had experience with eagles I would be interested to hear. short video of the encounter: