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    Bottom hanging lanyard Drone Retrieval off the deck of a sailboat!!??

    These skids and floats are made by irepairmd.com and I see they have a new item , skids for a mavic air !!
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    Bottom hanging lanyard Drone Retrieval off the deck of a sailboat!!??

    I got a 20 dollar pair for my mini from China also. The air raptor ones are made in America and really robust compared to the ones from China . I’ll find the link and post it here
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    Bottom hanging lanyard Drone Retrieval off the deck of a sailboat!!??

    Hi, I’ve done some launching and retrieving on a sailboat and here are my thoughts. I have both a mavic 2 pro and a mavic mini. The mini is pretty easy to get underneath and grab for retrieval. Flip it over and it goes quiet. You need to be at the stern of the boat and fly it in a few feet...
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    Flying over water

    I have unfortunately had my M2 pro go for a swim. I had been flying for about 15 minutes still had battery in the 25 % range and was hovering about 40 ft from the beach perhaps 20 ft in the air. The drone announced landing and headed and started to descend. I applied full throttle and ending up...