Runcam2 Syma8C Aerial Footage of Lipoa Park, Maui Hawaii

I've been having great fun flying my 2nd drone after the first one got away from me. Mostly because I couldn't see it at a distance. In daylight, I could not see which way my Syma8C was facing. The little LEDs on bottom were invisible. Then the wind took it over the trees and out of sight.  A cop called soon after asking, "Did you loose something?"  He told me an irate homeowner, called when my drone slide down his roof over quarter of a mile away. I figured the irate person, took my quad and smashed it. Two of the motor pods were cracked as if someone took an arm and smashed the quad on the ground.  I've crashed it many times, sometimes from quite a height. Never, did such damage. Also the video from the getaway drone, shows everything. It sure doesn't seem from watching that it violently hit something that might have caused such damage. Some people! hurrrumph!

Lots of crashes later, the Syma 8C is still in great shape

I am having so much fun learning to fly this Quadracopter (Drone). As long as I can see it, I'm doing fine - but the problem I'm having is during the day, when I can't see the little LED lights at a distance in order to tell in which direction the bird is positioned? That's how I lost track of it twice today.

Above is the video from the second "run away drone" that began its flight from my favorite Sunset Spot: Kilohana Park, in Kihei Maui HawaiiI'm also having problems with the camera mount. there is too much vibration for a clean image. A friend who is an expert at damping vibrations, worked for two hours to adapt the pod from the camera the quad came with, to support the RunCam2. It turned out that it was too heavy and did not successfully dampen the vibrations, which might of been a result of unbalanced props them vibration in XY and z Axes.

I thought I had the camera rigged pretty well on this flight - the second one that got out of control and wound up in somebody's yard. That "somebody" was very "irate" the police told me when I got a call from them asking me if I lost a drone. Will that saved the day I was so happy to hear that it had been found if it if it was involving the police!

That means that it flew twice as far as I've ever seen it fly before ...in fact it was out of control. I had totally lost the ability to see it no less control it!

I had been hiking through the underbrush looking about an hour and a half during sunset for the drone, to no avail. Of course I would have to buy another one I was thinking to myself including another run cam after all that would be under a $200 investment. Not too bad for so much fun. I must say I am happy to have the drone back even though it looks like it was manhandled by the irate people that found it and called the police rather than calling me.