This weekend I took a couple of boys to the beach (family members) and wanted to get some video of them trying to surf and using a boogie board, (in some very poor surf conditions). Something unexpected happened, through the low resolution of the goggles, I mistook some other kid and hovered up close. As he turned to face me, I realized he wasn't the kid I was expecting and instead of a surfboard, he had a surf casting reel. He cast his lure at my quadcopter. I didn't really notice what had happened until later when I reviewed the video from the GoPro. In the slow motion section, you can see the lure whiz past just below me.
Anyway, he missed and I was lucky. I finished out the flight and landed unaware.. and will be more careful in the future!
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Thanks for sharing the video. Glad you didn't lose your vehicle, or have other consequences. In general, I think that with more, low-altitude flying objects in the skies we can expect many kinds of immediate responses by those who believe they are being threatened, or by those who simply want to see if they can do something before they have thought enough about potential consequences. The fisherman would probably not have tried to hit a bird with his lure (on the other hand, maybe he has tried that too!).
Thanks wingman, useful info.
Soviet, I think the odds are if he reeled it in that it wouldn't have hit him, but It would have ended up in the ocean, and It would have been a total loss, except from the GoPro which was in its waterproof case, if I could have gotten it without a too much of a confrontation.
just glad it didn't happen!
The incident is at 0:50 (to save you time).