Gmman
Second Officer
Flight distance : 1003150 ft
United States
Offline
|
jg08 Posted at 2017-3-26 11:48
OK I gotta ask... How nervous or paranoid are people flying their mavic's over water of something going horribly wrong with the unit itself? Ever since I watched that video posted on here a little while ago of the mavic force landing over and into a swamp I've been pretty nervous about flying it over water... Is that a pretty rare occurrence? Should I be that nervous if im flying cautiously? I managed to snag a quick 38 second clip over the Fraser Canyon a couple hours outside Vancouver BC... I wanted to go a little further and do a little more but was scared this river would be eating up my $1400 drone!
https://youtu.be/dxyJ3p29nFU
Its totally fine to fly over water just make sure of all your pre flight stuff Mavic and controller are up to date on the firmware and all your calibrations are free of issues and obviously batteries are full and you should have no problem. Had mine out over the pacific ocean watching whales two miles out. Not one problem other then the whales kept going under as soon as I would try to lower my elevation to get a better view of them. Good luck. |
|