Can I fly over Water

bobmyers · Jun 11, 2015

Vtecturtle said:
I took off from a top deck. Had calibration errors then I calibrated it over my head and took off by hand and hand caught it. No compass issues at all after calibration. It wasn't too windy that day. It was pretty rock solid and stable. Crew and guest were very interested in it and a few approached with questions but no bad attention. I didn't really fly over the boat as well. Took one pass over it but mainly away from it taking pictures. It took a lot of balls to do. Especially with the home point being farther away every second lol. I didn't do it until our way home, made sure I caught epic footage at all our stops first. This was either a fair well flight or more epicness lol. As you can see, more epicness lol.

Man, you do have some guts-- all the factors were in play for a lost Phantom-- great shots!

syotr · Jun 11, 2015

tcope said:
Flying over the water is perfectly fine. Flying _in_ the water is not.

Flying in water is fine, but not with the Phantom

herby · Jun 11, 2015

Is there a specific setting we should be in for flying over water? Do the bottom sensors need to be turned off?

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Shatty · Jun 11, 2015

I wanna know if u inquired how fast the cruise ship was traveling at the time of take off. If the ship is traveling faster than the quads top speed, how did it catch back up to the ship or stay with it? Plus there are winds over the water and if you went against the wind it would slow the quad down even more!

dalebb · Jun 11, 2015

mick said:
Hi, ive seen some posts about it being a bit dodgy flying over water, is this right as I would like to video our local river and fishing lake.

Sure you can, just don't fly backwards and hit CSC.

Vtecturtle · Jun 11, 2015

bobmyers said:
Man, you do have some guts-- all the factors were in play for a lost Phantom-- great shots!

Thanks[emoji23][emoji23] i DEFF pushed my luck but hey i did it in the name of science

Shatty said:
I wanna know if u inquired how fast the cruise ship was traveling at the time of take off. If the ship is traveling faster than the quads top speed, how did it catch back up to the ship or stay with it? Plus there are winds over the water and if you went against the wind it would slow the quad down even more!

Speed im not sure at the time of flight, but the boat was traveling about 14-16knots for the most part of the trip I believe. That's around 16-20 mph i believe, so deff not faster than the drone can fly. Winds were rough some days and calm others, this day it was calm.