The manual also has plenty of statements about what to do when flying over bodies of water.Btw: the Mavic manual clearly states under "Flight Environment Requirements":
The manual also has plenty of statements about what to do when flying over bodies of water.Btw: the Mavic manual clearly states under "Flight Environment Requirements":
One question I have, and apologize if answered earlier in this thread or else where, is the downward sensors are only active below 13m
and that there is no way to turn them OFF except by turning ON Sport mode?
Not sure exactly what you mean by this.And you only turn off the forward sensors with the "vision symbol" on the RC?
So I've read...turn off the VPS, turn off Landing Protection, try not to go full left stick down, stay above 13m...and if it does start to "auto land" go to sport mode asap? Yet some pilots do not do some, or all of that. Yes, the manual has the warnings about flying over water....but we all want to do it. A lot of conflicting information and opinions.
I have a 29' long pilothouse boat. The cockpit floor is a wide open 11' x 7 1/2' space.
Wind was 0-5 mph. Water was very calm.
I've practiced hand launching/catching several dozen times as well as landing on the boats deck while sitting on land. So with the conditions I was confident I could land. The first couple min of flight I flew just beyond arms reach to make sure catching could work. The backup plan was to fly to the boat launch & land on the parking lot if I couldn't land on the boat. I wasn't planning on flying more than a couple hundred feet away from the controller so didn't think losing signal would be a problem. I have RTH set to hover.
Do you know why the OP link to the log now redirects to a page of general Phantom links?It certainly looks like that it was the VPS system.
You are one lucky guy, that it is not sleeping with the fishes
I can see when battery system was under severe stress and it seems like a lot of systems started to crash. I have never seen a log of the systems getting flooded with water.
Can you please please upload the 400mb+ DAT file to a file sharing service so we can see in more detail what happened.
I am going to contact BudWalker because he is the Jedi Master of Log file analysis. I think he will want to personally look at this one. At the very least you will get a very good report of what happened and the community will gain some useful info.
Rob
The log will need to be uploaded again. I only keep them for about 10-15 days since I don't have unlimited space on my web servers.Do you know why the OP link to the log now redirects to a page of general Phantom links?
Thanks, Mike, I did not realize that you were hosting these logs/viewer.The log will need to be uploaded again. I only keep them for about 10-15 days since I don't have unlimited space on my web servers.