Flying your drone in high winds, over water, gulp!

Zbip57 · Mar 24, 2023

This is high adrenaline stuff.

Silver Surfer 42 · Mar 25, 2023

In credible...I would not have believed it if I had not watched this video

Daytona500 · Mar 25, 2023

Thats absolutely crazy, great job piloting the drone

PakNheat380 · Mar 25, 2023

I would have liked to see the hand catch after the flight! Amazing video!

Zbip57 · Mar 25, 2023

PakNheat380 said:
I would have liked to see the hand catch after the flight! Amazing video!

I would have thought the pilot would need to stay in control all the way down and have someone else grab the drone out of the air. But he catches it himself!

See the end of this video. They mention they've already lost one drone.

I love their enthusiasm. When people tell you drones are only used to spy on people, or to deliver pizza, show them these videos.

PakNheat380 · Mar 25, 2023

Zbip57 said:
I would have thought the pilot would need to stay in control all the way down and have someone else grab the drone out of the air. But he catches it himself!

See the end of this video. They mention they've already lost one drone.

I love their enthusiasm. When people tell you drones are only used to spy on people, or to deliver pizza, show them these videos.

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I missed that the first time I watched. I’ve not ever seen the portable handle he has strapped to the drone. That surely reduces the risk of a lost drone or fingers! Thx for sending me back for a 2nd look.

rtclibbon · Mar 25, 2023

Amazing experience watching you all. Love sailing and.....that's my drone!!

DVPOWERS · Mar 25, 2023

As a person who has droned boats before, my hat off to you. That's some high level stuff. good job

Zbip57 · Mar 25, 2023

DVPOWERS said:
... my hat off to you.

Just to be clear, that ain't me on that sailboat. It's an Ocean Race team whose videos I'm following on Youtube.

I'm nowhere near brave enough for that.

hiflyer201 · Mar 25, 2023

Seemingly unlimited funds and this is all they can come up with??

Zbip57 · Mar 25, 2023

hiflyer201 said:
Seemingly unlimited funds and this is all they can come up with??

That's a bit harsh, don't you think? I'm sure you could do better, but they're not likely to hire you with that kind of attitude.

Those drone shots are all one continuous shot to illustrate the difficulty involved. Note they slowed the boat in order to help in retrieving the drone. Minutes or even just seconds lost like this might affect their final race result.

At 3:50 in this video, Antoine explains how he struggled to do any video editing without becoming nauseous while the boat is pitching and crashing like this.

They do post regular updates on their channel with much better-produced and edited videos documenting their progress during this 5-week long race around the southern ocean.

Hermey · Mar 26, 2023

I'd be really scared to launch a drone in those conditions!

CvCow · Mar 26, 2023

Wow, very exiting time of your lives......
What kind of handle did you mount on the drone and how is it constructed to you drone... glue?

Capt KO · Mar 26, 2023

PakNheat380 said:
I would have liked to see the hand catch after the flight! Amazing video!

Off topic but love your profile pic. I ran 1000 crab traps for 40 years. Lol they pinch..hard

Capt KO · Mar 26, 2023

WOW! Thanks so much for posting. That’s some serious ballsy flying. The winged keels these days are incredible! Just changed the angle of the wing to slow down. What an amazing drone..and pilot and captain.

Zbip57 · Mar 27, 2023

OMG.

hiflyer201 · Mar 27, 2023

Zbip57 said:
That's a bit harsh, don't you think? I

They have hundreds of videos on their channel and lots of money to buy drones. Seemed like they had enough cameras on board to have caught the landing. I hand land always I would have liked to see that one.
I love sailing too.

Zbip57 · Mar 27, 2023

hiflyer201 said:
They have hundreds of videos on their channel and lots of money to buy drones. Seemed like they had enough cameras on board to have caught the landing. I hand land always I would have liked to see that one.
I love sailing too.

You don't need to watch all hundred videos. If all you want to see is how they land it, just watch at 11:50 in the video I linked in post #5 above.

MAvic_South_Oz · Mar 28, 2023

Zbip57 said:
I would have thought the pilot would need to stay in control all the way down and have someone else grab the drone out of the air. But he catches it himself!

Lots of practice for sure, but would have been good to 'have a hand' landing too.

9:00, the drone didn't seem to want to shut down immediately like pretty much all drones.
It looked like a Mavic 3, not 100% sure.

Still think the best ocean yacht race drone flight is this one though . . .