Navigating a slot canyon with the Mavic.

[Chuggie]

Navigating a bending slot canyon is not easy. The video below is from my first day to carry a drone in a backpack up a ski lift. I successful carried it down a double black diamond run on my Snowboard without touching turf.

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

 

[AlanTheBeast]

Navigating a bending slot canyon is not easy. The video below is from my first day to carry a drone in a backpack up a ski lift. I successful carried it down a double black diamond run on my Snowboard without touching turf.

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

Cool.

Hate to think what might happen if you lost radio contact. Was RTH set to return? Could you get in there to retrieve it?

 

[Qoncussion]

Nice shooting...

 

[Chuggie]

Cool.

Hate to think what might happen if you lost radio contact. Was RTH set to return? Could you get in there to retrieve it?

Hi,
Yes return to home was set but at a high enough altitude to clear the canyon; however the canyon had overhang too.

 

[slr001]

Did you have the dome on? Can see prop reflections.

 

[slr001]

Did you have the dome on? Can see prop reflections starting about 1:43

 

[tcope]

Hi,
Yes return to home was set but at a high enough altitude to clear the canyon; however the canyon had overhang too.

Would be _much_ better to set it to hover rather then RTH.

 

[GerdS]

What about GPS? I guess the Mavic will fall into ATTI mode because of the limited view to the sky.

 

[Chuggie]

Did you have the dome on? Can see prop reflections starting about 1:43

Hi,
No the dome was not on, the reflections are the sun light at a steep angle passing through the props. I also have a Phantom Vision 2+, it has worse issues with prop reflections, and I have an Inspire 1, it has was less issues with prop reflections due to the greater distance between the props and the camera on the inspire.

 

[Chuggie]

Would be _much_ better to set it to hover rather then RTH.

I was too busy navigating the canyon to notice if there was GPS lock or not, the Mavic was close enough for a ground lock though, so flight was stable.