I live in on 2.5 heavily wooded acres with my house and Inspire1 launch & recovery pad located in the middle. This year an extremely territorial hawk has taken up residence on my property or by the way the hawk acts, it bought the joint and I am trespassing on the hawk's property. Whenever I try to fly my Inspire1 from the time the aircraft reaches approximately 50 feet of altitude until the aircraft is several hundred feet high and out beyond the property line, the hawk makes attack passes at my Inspire1 as if the hawk is hunting the Inspire1.
It is only a matter of time before the hawk and the aircraft collide. I mean it is really that bad. Today I crossed into my yard at 350 feet and initiated a maximum verticle speed decent, trying to get through the attack zone as rapidly as possible. Hawk was still on it, multiple passes, seeming within inches of hitting the Inspire1. My wife and daughter, laughing and fascinated initially by the hawk ran into the house as the passes got closer and closer. I was afraid the hawk was gonna clip the Inspire1 causing it to loose control and perhaps hit one of them. If it was someone else's Inspire1 the hawk was chasing,I would laugh my *** of and enjoy the show, not so much as its gonna be my expensive toy that gets destroyed.
I got some flashes of the hawk on my tablet as it buzzed the Inspire1 but did not have video recording.
If I feel like gambling, I'll take off and land with the video recording and see if I can't get a video clip of the hawk trying to kill my toy.
Funny , kind of but more of a pain in the ***.......
It is only a matter of time before the hawk and the aircraft collide. I mean it is really that bad. Today I crossed into my yard at 350 feet and initiated a maximum verticle speed decent, trying to get through the attack zone as rapidly as possible. Hawk was still on it, multiple passes, seeming within inches of hitting the Inspire1. My wife and daughter, laughing and fascinated initially by the hawk ran into the house as the passes got closer and closer. I was afraid the hawk was gonna clip the Inspire1 causing it to loose control and perhaps hit one of them. If it was someone else's Inspire1 the hawk was chasing,I would laugh my *** of and enjoy the show, not so much as its gonna be my expensive toy that gets destroyed.
I got some flashes of the hawk on my tablet as it buzzed the Inspire1 but did not have video recording.
If I feel like gambling, I'll take off and land with the video recording and see if I can't get a video clip of the hawk trying to kill my toy.
Funny , kind of but more of a pain in the ***.......