What about the uninsured inexperienced pilot flying low over water and not knowing which way to push the joysticks ?
Sorry for your loss. I fly over water all the time and have experienced incorrect attitude readings and loss of sensors trying to figure out what is below the drone. My info is too late to help you. My approach is to assume I’m in total control and the drone cannot do anything on its own. I use a GetterBack and have DJI insurance. I still worry if the GetterBack will actually deploy. No way to test it other than trying it.
Agreed. I live at the coast and fly my drone over the ocean literally 99% of the time. I have a personal 30ft "hard deck" that I keep the drone above and I've never had any issues (knock on wood). Conversely, I didn't drop a $1000 bucks on a drone without knowing that I could lose it at any minute. Lol. If you can't do the time, don't do the crIme!
So now you’re a sea plane pilot. Sorry.
as a practice we decided to honour a request from a drone pilot, who saw his drone sync in the water Given the last position which he send us by WhatsApp, we transferred the this in the chartplotter of the lifeboat and pulled Diver through the bottom of the lake. With the second leg we found the drone, and the diver brought it to the surface. We handed the drone over to the drone pilot, who happened to be a watch repairman. He dissansambled and dried up the drone, and when it was dry en assembled again, it was able to fly like it used to.His incident was in the sea and his drone was dead less than a second after being submerged.
That drone was for 2 days at the bottom of the Markermeer. It survived.
Flying over water is riskier because the reflection of the water may confuse the sensor, besides that if you crash it's harder to recovery your drone.
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No, it is the unpredictable behavior of water (the movement) that is confusing the calculations of the data receptors.
Thankyou for that information.
I've lost 2 mavic pros. So don't feel too bad. There's a learning curve involved with dones.
Have to agree with Meta 4 on this one, I do 90% of my flying over water and have no more worries than when flying over land. In fact, the fact that for the most part you have no third parties or any property directly below the drone is a plus from my point of view.It's not complicated, the issue is psychological, not actual.
I also conscious of al the reports of flyers that have crashed or lost drones flying over land.
Flying above water you won't encounter any risks you don't encounter over land.
And those risks won't act any different to the way they do above land.
Difficulty of recovery is a different matter and unrelated to the risks of flying.
But if you think you can recover on land, I guess you don't fly over trees anywhere.
It only takes one tree or high roof and recovery can be as unlikely as at sea.
I noticed that the recovered drone had skins and wonder if somehow, the skins increased its chances of survival ?
