Hello
I fly my Mavic 2 Zoom mainly for bvlos surveillance missions in a highly populated city, full of tall builldings and trees (plus wires etc etc), a couple of kilometers away from me, sometimes even at night, often taking off and landing from my hand.
When needed to closeup on a target i use to carefully maneuver by hand in P, often switching to T modes to avoid collision, desending between buildings, trees while keeping myself ready for a prompt disengage (switch to S and climb and so on..) not to get the drone downed by someone, hit by cars, animals etc etc.
Mavic 2 is quite reliable, i know, but with the risk of an ESC failure or a wire/bird strike around the corner, i dont want my drone falling like a stone, destroying itself and maybe killing someone.
Thus I'm looking for an auto chute system, being it the lightest and the quickest to deploy, having the minimum impact on drone maneuverability and machanical/electrical wear.
I lurked around the web, and foun a couple of interesting soulution, pity that my first choice, the Manti L (35 grams) didnt hit the shelves, and probably will never, cause looks like an abandoned project.
Im also evaluating the Vectorsafe 10 (85 grams) but that looks too slow to deploy (unsuit for lower altitudes) and the parazero, but it looks too heavy (85 grams) and anti aerodinamic giving the drone huge stress, and its stops the props, wich its better to stay on to provide additioal lift and slow its downfall, then the fruitychutes, that sounds to suffer both the weight and the speed problems.
I know also about a Hubsan x4 auto chute that has been adapted for Phantoms but cant find any spec about its weight and functioning.
Last of the list is to assemble a custom one, but I didnt find anyquick launche and conrollers on the market right now.
I would like to ask you some suggestion, and maybe some experience should anyone run a similar system on his drone.
Thank you.
I fly my Mavic 2 Zoom mainly for bvlos surveillance missions in a highly populated city, full of tall builldings and trees (plus wires etc etc), a couple of kilometers away from me, sometimes even at night, often taking off and landing from my hand.
When needed to closeup on a target i use to carefully maneuver by hand in P, often switching to T modes to avoid collision, desending between buildings, trees while keeping myself ready for a prompt disengage (switch to S and climb and so on..) not to get the drone downed by someone, hit by cars, animals etc etc.
Mavic 2 is quite reliable, i know, but with the risk of an ESC failure or a wire/bird strike around the corner, i dont want my drone falling like a stone, destroying itself and maybe killing someone.
Thus I'm looking for an auto chute system, being it the lightest and the quickest to deploy, having the minimum impact on drone maneuverability and machanical/electrical wear.
I lurked around the web, and foun a couple of interesting soulution, pity that my first choice, the Manti L (35 grams) didnt hit the shelves, and probably will never, cause looks like an abandoned project.
Im also evaluating the Vectorsafe 10 (85 grams) but that looks too slow to deploy (unsuit for lower altitudes) and the parazero, but it looks too heavy (85 grams) and anti aerodinamic giving the drone huge stress, and its stops the props, wich its better to stay on to provide additioal lift and slow its downfall, then the fruitychutes, that sounds to suffer both the weight and the speed problems.
I know also about a Hubsan x4 auto chute that has been adapted for Phantoms but cant find any spec about its weight and functioning.
Last of the list is to assemble a custom one, but I didnt find anyquick launche and conrollers on the market right now.
I would like to ask you some suggestion, and maybe some experience should anyone run a similar system on his drone.
Thank you.
