First time in my life flying over water... and I'm one drone less.
We had a company summer party, I wanted to take some cool videos of my colleagues wake boarding (I had the consent to fly & film from both colleagues and the venue personnel).
First battery, just warming up, getting to know where exactly are those cables etc.
All of a sudden, about 1 minute in, quad just dips back and tumbles uncontrollably down into the water. You can see from the OSD that it wasn't a failsafe, it was still running while going down. I guess either motor or ESC went out
What a bad luck - I've been flying this quad so much, it's been reliable, I didn't have any problems with it whatsoever. And now the first time I fly over water, it goes down like this. Bummer.
And I also lost my Runcam 3S that was on the quad. Well at least it wasn't a Gopro

Here's the video:


I though I could be able to find it as it fell quite close to the shore and into the floaty flowers (no idea how are those called in English). But no luck. There's zero visibility under the water and tons of very soft mud on the bottom. The quad is probably burried under the mud now.

RIP.

That sucks so bad. We have a few lakes near where I am but I'm too petrified to go anywhere near them.

The worst thing is that you will never know what actually failed because you have nothing to try and do an autopsy on.

I guess the only consolation is that as it was the first quad you built I guess it has the most dated parts on it so it does give you an excuse to build a more modern 5". Then again, the sentimental value of losing your first ever flying creation must be heart wrenching. It would be for me.

When they dredge the lake in 20 years time, someone will find it and they can at least have a smile at your RunCam footage.

I can't like your post because there is nothing to like about losing a quad in that way

  Losing a quad it's really the thing that holds me back too. I also have some good nature landscape and bando spots to fly but I can't handle losing equipment, in part because it took me a while to have everything needed.
Another thing that really makes a difference is good quality material. I don't know about your gear, but I'm in the medium/low range.
For that type of flying I would have to go for crossfire or r9m to be relaxed. Also a good vtx and good antennas.
But in your case it really seemed none of that, but more about a esc or motor failure like you said.

Very unfortunate, but don't cry over the spilled milk. Like Snow said, it's a good excuse to build another, and maybe better, one.

Sorry to see you lose the quad! That is always hard to swallow. It almost looks like and ESC gave out on you.

Thanks guys for the support! Yeah I'm not taking it too seriously or bad, it's just a quad after all. At least it didn't fall on my colleague's head while he was wake boarding
I have another 5 inch (currently with a broken top plate, but replacements is on the way), then a great flying 3 inch and a 2 inch in a building process. So I'm not entirely grounded
It's just the sentimental value (1st quad) and the camera that bugs me off.

Also, over the year I collected some stuff I can use to build a new one - I have the Robotdog RD2205 I won in Oscar's giveaway (https://oscarliang.com/robotdog-rd2205-2300kv-motor/) plus a set of brand new Smoov ESCs I won another giveaway (https://newbeedrone.com/products/newbeed...estyle-esc) and some VTX is probably to be found in my spares box.
Doesn't go together that great, so maybe I'll just use one or the other. Anyway, build log shall be posted here.

That sucks. Like mentioned above, good reason to build more.

Deal

Part of the fun flying over water been there before, sorry for the lost

OH no man thats sad, sorry for your lost! Sadly this is part of the game, I also lost a quad on a ESC or Motor failure this weekend.