We were on our annual Fishing trip on the Missouri River this year for my Grandpas Birthday! I thought i'd take the
Mavic Air 2 out with us for some footage to keep since my Grandpa is getting old! Long story short, I've been playing too much Warzone lately I use a remote controller for. In the game the left stick controls your movement (forward, backward, left, right) so when trying to do a 180 shoot of the boat, as i passed over top i went to pull the drone back to get the boat back into frame, I immediately out of muscle memory jammed my left stick down and also immediately realized I made a huge mistake as i was at low altitude already and the Mavic doesn't have an immediate response time and I know there's a bit of a delay in camera feed. I pulled the altitude stick back up and the camera was facing the front right arm of the drone and water was everywhere! We stopped the boat and I flew the drone in and it was soaking wet! I pulled the battery and immediately wiped all water off of the drone. I then held the drone out the top of the boat for about 30 minuted in order to dry it out.
Its now sitting with the battery that was in the incident beside it in a bowl of rice and will remain there until I feel it safe. I have DJI Care, but iv'e already used one of my replacements (testing the obstacle avoidance feature to its max while doing a Corvette shoot). So id like to see if i can get by drying it out myself as it flew back to the boat just fine after the wreck. Not saying that means everything will be fine and dandy, but id say that's a better sign than the Drone completely wanking out mid air afterwards. Here's pretty much the exact steps I've been taking.
You can survive water damage...
Anyways, here's what you guys came for!
I will update the thread as to what happens! If the rice doesn't work, back to the DJi factory it goes for repairs!