Drone pilot accidentally knocks himself out with his own quadcopter
A man has captured the moment he managed to accidentally knock himself out with his own quadcopter drone.
YouTube user doctorsnaketown uploaded hilarious footage of himself flying a ZMR250 mini racing quadcopter drone around his garden on a bright sunny day and somehow managing to crash it – into himself.
The ZMR250 is a racing sport drone for hobbyists that can be bought online as a DIY assembly kit, and it comes with a camera and a video transmitter promising “zero delay” in transmitting a live feed of the drone’s camera to the drone operator.
Nevertheless, when doctorsnaketown sent his drone on a super-fast lap around his garden, he failed to notice on his remote controller that the drone had taken a circuit round the garden and was now coming up fast directly behind where he sat in a group of deck chairs.
The result was the drone whacked him squarely on the back of the head. Fortunately for the drone operator, the small racing drone only weighs 554g, which is only a third of the weight of a conventional consumer model.
On YouTube, doctorsnaketown wrote: “A little slapstick lap where I boomerang max speed into my own noggin! Luckily, I did not hurt myself, other than a bump on the head. Be safer than me! I am going to revamp my pilot seating zone once my head feels better ;)”
