What a day!

Recently I gifted a drone to Pranav, my favouritest nephew as a gift for completing his degree in Aeronautics. Actually we had planned to send him away to Bangalore to live on his own and explore the city and opportunities there since we were accused of being over protective. You see all our children in the family have studied in Mumbai itself. He however landed a job almost immediately with Airport Authority of India and got busy. Had enrolled him to learn driving so that we could go on road trips. All our plans to travel together had to be pushed back.

This particular day was planned to be a poignant one. We had gone to scatter the ashes of my Baba in the Arabian sea. We also did an asti visarjan in the Managanga at Gondavale as wished by him. The sea and Gondavale have been the constants in his life as a born to a Koli family and latter his place of faith.

However after that the day flipped for us. As my nephew said unplanned days make the best memories. We took the ferry to Mandwa and decided to fly the drone on the beach. My nephew is the more careful one but I was pushing him to go to far distance. Suddenly he realised we were loosing network. He panicked and gave the return home command. Now when we do that the AI maps a straight line which is the shortest route for return. After a while we lost complete connection. If you watched URI you know the feeling. GPS was showing last location. So we walked towards it, a good 1.5 kms. Pranav told the mali of the bungalow where it had crashed that his toy has crashed in. Sweet guy allowed him to pick it up. I was far behind. He checked the drone it had a crack on the body. One blade had broken but was still able to take flight. So he flew it right back located me still treading along. I waved to him and signalled to land. Then we walked back to the jetty. Our legs aching and Pranav's health watch showing 14000 steps. Gosh we were ravenous by then. So this was our grand lunch to celebrate our adventures. We ate the watermelon and feta salad so no pic. Then he ate Chicken Hakka noodles and I enjoyed a superb veggie delight wood-fired pizza. He enjoyed a Alphonso mocktail and me a Peach ice tea. The food and drinks were really good at The Boardwalk. Rode the ferry and were back home by 4pm. What a day!

So here is Pranav’s channel. He plans to share his experience and footage about flying the drone DJI mini 2. Some joyrides from a helicopter from his aeronautics college days. Additionally clicks of aircrafts that he is doing maintenance on. It’s going to be fun to see him grow!