Took the Mavic quite far out to sea  and just made it back with 2%  battery left . Managed to get some nice footage of the ship and its  support  vessel .  25 min flight squashed down to 3 min . Also added a  few little effects just for fun

Great vid but that was cutting it too fine at 2%!

Great Video - Liked the effects!

That was right on the edge! You must have had a lot of luck, could have been the last flight ;)

LOL for special effects

Awesome! I loved the sea monsters, pretty cool.

I was frightened when the jets came bouncing.
Don't drain drone batteries that low while flying.

I really enjoyed your video. Could you estimate the speed of the ship when you were behind it?

I see you have the Phantom 4 and a Mavic under your avatar. Did you use the Phantom for the video?

I guess if it was the Mavic it would of self landed in the water when the battery hit 10% and we would of missed your great video.

B1houdini Posted at 2018-2-27 09:41
I really enjoyed your video. Could you estimate the speed of the ship when you were behind it?

I see you have the Phantom 4 and a Mavic under your avatar. Did you use the Phantom for the video?

He took the Mavic.

Looks like the sea monsters scared the little boat.

Clever bugger aren't you. 10/10...brave too

Now that was something different

those jets scared the life out of me

Thanks for all  the feedback   . Wanted to get close to the ship but the seagulls are not a friendly bunch. It was a cold day my hands where froze the time i landed i cant fly with gloves on..

  I disabled all the RTH features on the Mavic  and i had to cancel the auto land function a few times as it tried to activate once below 5% battery and that would have been a autoland in to the sea my heart fluttered as i tried to swipe the cancel option . I dont know the speed of the ship will check my flight logs when i can

I tend to disable all the safety features and  calculate the flight myself . Had a bad experience with RTH and obstacle avoidance once and it caused the drone to crash so don't us them any more.

Also had a number of flights where you lose signal but just for 30 seconds to a minute. I find if you raise your altitude are wait a few minutes  almost every time the signal does come back and i just  resume the flight. If auto safety features are on it comes home at signal loss and you lose the entire planned flight for the sake of a short signal loss. Its a scary experience signal loss you tend to think the worst when it happens.

Saying that i cut it to close  with this flight  it was a thrill on the flight back and i hugged it when it landed , wont do that again.  

Very nice footage

kfloke Posted at 2018-2-28 06:51
Very nice footage

Thank you

I see, we are going Holliwood here now... ;-) Great video, thank you very much!

Thanks for posting this! Great video!

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