Greetings from Southwest Wisconsin!
Today I was at my mother-in-law's place, which is out in the beautiful Wisconsin country. She has this awesome natural stream running through her property, and today was a great day to trace the stream with my Mavic Air 2. (Love that drone!)
Hovering inches above the water, the travel down this stream was awesome, dodging tree branches, skirting around bends. It was a very fun time.
Toward the end, I strafed a little too close to the right edge, resulting in the drone going down. Thankfully, the drone went down in some tall grassy area, supported up by four twigs above the stream. At least it didn't go in the water.
I'm 51, and more of an "office body"-type person. Not in the best shape, but trying. That didn't help when I was jumping from one side of the creek to the other on a quest to retrieve the Air 2.
The jump proved to be terrible. My feet hit the other side nicely, but my center of gravity launched me back into the stream.
In my hands were a spare battery, and my brand new DJI Smart Controller. Yup. I panicked. I panicked and used a few expletives. (No one was within earshot anyway.)
Finally, here's my question: what is the best way to handle this situation? Meaning, I'd like to do things to give this Controller a fighting chance.
I've used a hair dryer on the Controller, and it is currently in front of a table fan blasting air into it's many orifices.
Googling proved less than fruitful when determining if the Smart Controller is waterproof in any way.
Sorry for the long post. Today was an adventure, for sure. What an absolute joy it is to be a drone pilot. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you, and blessings!
- Todd
Today I was at my mother-in-law's place, which is out in the beautiful Wisconsin country. She has this awesome natural stream running through her property, and today was a great day to trace the stream with my Mavic Air 2. (Love that drone!)
Hovering inches above the water, the travel down this stream was awesome, dodging tree branches, skirting around bends. It was a very fun time.
Toward the end, I strafed a little too close to the right edge, resulting in the drone going down. Thankfully, the drone went down in some tall grassy area, supported up by four twigs above the stream. At least it didn't go in the water.
I'm 51, and more of an "office body"-type person. Not in the best shape, but trying. That didn't help when I was jumping from one side of the creek to the other on a quest to retrieve the Air 2.
The jump proved to be terrible. My feet hit the other side nicely, but my center of gravity launched me back into the stream.
In my hands were a spare battery, and my brand new DJI Smart Controller. Yup. I panicked. I panicked and used a few expletives. (No one was within earshot anyway.)
Finally, here's my question: what is the best way to handle this situation? Meaning, I'd like to do things to give this Controller a fighting chance.
I've used a hair dryer on the Controller, and it is currently in front of a table fan blasting air into it's many orifices.
Googling proved less than fruitful when determining if the Smart Controller is waterproof in any way.
Sorry for the long post. Today was an adventure, for sure. What an absolute joy it is to be a drone pilot. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you, and blessings!
- Todd