After reading a few posts re Inspires going out of control over water, is there an issue here or is it coincidence?My bird recently was temporarily out of control and at the time, I put this down to a gimbal glitch whilst flying FPV.
It happened over water and I am now beginning to wonder????
Is the vision positioning system getting confused over water and causing unwanted control inputs?
Would it be possible to choose to completely disable the vision positioning system in the next app and firmware upgrade?
Any views Guys and Girls?

Disable adaptive landing gear...But I doubt that the sensors get confused unless you fly extremely close to the water.

Disabling adaptive landing gear will disable the gear function but will the sensors still be operating to maintain position if relevant?

Dave E Posted at 2015-5-6 04:49
Disabling adaptive landing gear will disable the gear function but will the sensors still be operati ...

Yes, but only within their normal working range.

Some of these 'over water incidents' have happened at 20m and above so I think that rules out the vision positioning system.

Multipath maybe a problem though.........

I've flown over water quite a few times and have had no issues. During the floods in Sydney (Australia) the other week, I had some time to fly between 1m and 30m off the surface and did not observe any flight issues (Adaptive Landing Gear Disabled)

what do you mean that it was out of control? i had a similar stuation yesterday . i almost lost my inspire 1... was over water for a few secs and then all over the palce.

This is a non issue. Flown over water >50x. No problems

I did fly over the water on saturday and nothing happen. So i dont know... Some one else was on s hoot and over a pool and the Dron went nuts ended up in the water bc his prop clip a branch.

No issues flying over water, going over cliffs, pretty much doing anything.    Only if you lose GPS should it get weird in any way.
Unless you mean flying 6 inches above the water, in which case I couldn't advise.   I've flown about 3 feet off the water with no problems at all.

Thanks for the input Guys. I have also flown over water a lot at varying heights without issue but as mentioned on one occassion there were problems. Hopefully we can put the problems down to coincidence and not actually connected to the water. The vision positioning system definately senses water as I had the landing gear come down while flying low and fast over water before the option to disable it was available.

I was out trying different settings on the camera, thought to myself would it not be awesome to capture some birds in flight at 60fps and slow it down to look like a national geo film!  Dam geese were not afraid of the drone and just keep swimming around.  At some points in the video I was less then 2 feet from the water.

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