First time flying on open sea from small boat ?
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You might consider getting a Rescue Jacket for the Air 3 to make flying from a boat less stressful.
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Gear to fly in the Rain and Fly from a Boat.
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Gear to fly in the Rain and Fly from a Boat.
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@Pacefast unless you are really experienced in flying your drone from a boat ,whether at anchor ,or a moving boat,
my main advice would be,before such an undertaking, then practice, using the different settings you mentioned,
untill, you have become fully confident, in how the drone reacts to those settings on dry land away from any forms of water
my main advice would be,before such an undertaking, then practice, using the different settings you mentioned,
untill, you have become fully confident, in how the drone reacts to those settings on dry land away from any forms of water
I have tested all those points Would be useful to update RTH point with the press of a button rather than diving into menus
Would be nice, but this is not an option. I can think of a few things I would like to see a shortcut to as well.
The main issue is that you will have to hand launch and hand catch the drone.
Doing this at sea is much more difficult anyone who hasn't flown from a boat, can imagine.
The drone will attempt to hold position as you launch or catch.
Unless the boat is perfectly still, this will feel like the drone is aggressively fighting against you and that can be scary.
You may need several attempts to bring the drone in and being low on battery increases anxiety.
You must bring the drone in with a healthy battery level safety margin.
Are you expecting to fly around obstacles to need OA?
Common misunderstanding ... you cannot set RTH to anything other than RTH
You are thinking of the Loss of Signal action.
Are you going to be flying far from the boat or staying close?
Are you likely to lose signal?
Out on the water don't use RTH. Fly the drone yourself.
If your boat is travelling some distance while you fly, you will need to reset the home point (manually) a number of times during the flight to ensure the homepoint is not too far away from the boat.
If you don't, the drone will at some point advise you that the battery level is approaching the time when it must return to home and it will want to fly back to where the boat was when you launched.
That's a start, but even an experienced hand catcher/launcher will have a nasty surprise and lot of trouble if the boat is moving.
PakNheat380
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I launch from my boat all the time. My rules are:
1. Light & variable wind
2. Boat stopped
3. Obstacle avoidance off
5. Wear leather glove
1. Light & variable wind
2. Boat stopped
3. Obstacle avoidance off
5. Wear leather glove
Wild Drone Pilot
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cameracamel
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YES, to the leather glove to protect you from the flying 'slice ;em, dice .em flying veg a matic you are flying.......
I fly a Mavic 2 Zoom (& Spark) over water from a small houseboat and kayak (Shanty Sanctuary., See the following link for more detail: ).
Both drones are equipped with floats (in case of unintended water landing). I also use a recovery handle to facilitate catching in flight.
I back up the drone to the boat so stick adjustments are more intuitive when recovering the drone. I won't fly from the boat unless it is relatively calm with light winds and seas.
Practice how you will use the drone (tracking, etc.) and make hand recoveries over land first.
Updating your home point is important unless you remain stationary or you drone will go back to where it took off. However, I always bring the drone back with plenty of battery (I shoot for 30%).
I hope this helps. TS
Beware the altitude, between drone and water, because the sensors don't work good with the water!!! And READ the MANUAL, for limitations and warnings!!!
OA most definiately off when approaching the boat and coming into land.
As far as I know you can not set RTH to "hover".
You can. however, set the failsafe/disconnection-action option to "hover" but I wouldn't recommend that.
Why? Battery state depending it can end up in a low battery RTH i.e. if you are too slow getting to within control range the drone could already be on its way to a different place i.e. the last set home point.
RTH height, ..... higher than anything on the boat and or other boats in the area by no less than 10m.
"Question ? Can..." No, would be nice but you can do it manually in the app quite easily,
I'd reset it to the controller's position each time but the system will need to know where the controller is, so location services need to be on on the screen device, be that a phone or a controller.
Any other advice, first practise hand catching on dry land whilst stood stil. Once you are confident with that practise hand catching whilst walking .... probably with the drone to the side of you or whilst walking backwards.
You might also have to practise the "grab and twist/flip/roll" method of motor stopping.
It might also be an idea to practise hand launching whilst walking backwards etc..
I am not sure which would be the better method of starting the drone's motors and launching, CSC and throttle up vs use the launch button.
With the CSC approach I think the drone will fight 'you' as soon as it senses movement and that movement can be in 3D.
But either way, once the drone is airborne it will try to hold postion and that most likely means you and the boat will move away from it * or at least you should be prepared for that to happen, hence the "launch from the stern of a forwards moving boat" mentioned below.
* raises an interesting point, will VPS's 'lock' be sufficient to keep the drone over the boat ?
Assuming the boat is moving forwards, launch and hand catch from the stern.
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PS have a look at posts #8 ( byJJB* ) and #19 ( by DJI Natalia ) in
landing protection
I put my air 3 in sport mode, and thought I could land it myself, but it goes really slow when landing with my new carbon fiber landing gear. Probably the belly sensor sees my carbon cross tube ..... I thought the landing function would be disabled in sport mode ....... I would suggest that...
With the Air 3 you might be able to switch landing protection off .... which would be a big plus for a boat landing
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