Greetings,
My friend just got a new boat and we're planning on using it a lot this summer for fishing. I've been pondering the idea of also launching my P3P from it and getting some great shots out on the water, over shallow wrecks etc. Getting the drone to places it just couldn't get to otherwise.
The boat wouldn't be technically anchored, but stationary enough. I've flown it enough that I'm confident I could land/hand catch it without relying on any automated RTH.
I'm just trying to make sure I understand the risks involved and seek opinions from the community as a whole. I don't plan on flying far, so I don't see it losing signal and automatically 'returning to home' (which would drown it). I have a water tight case to transport it in. The worst case I see is either an equipment failure (thus it falls into the lake) or an automated RTH kicking in that I can't abort (thus drowning because it's "home point" will have moved.
Based on that, I think the risk is negligible, but I'm still nervous. Would anyone else consider doing this, or am I crazy?
My friend just got a new boat and we're planning on using it a lot this summer for fishing. I've been pondering the idea of also launching my P3P from it and getting some great shots out on the water, over shallow wrecks etc. Getting the drone to places it just couldn't get to otherwise.
The boat wouldn't be technically anchored, but stationary enough. I've flown it enough that I'm confident I could land/hand catch it without relying on any automated RTH.
I'm just trying to make sure I understand the risks involved and seek opinions from the community as a whole. I don't plan on flying far, so I don't see it losing signal and automatically 'returning to home' (which would drown it). I have a water tight case to transport it in. The worst case I see is either an equipment failure (thus it falls into the lake) or an automated RTH kicking in that I can't abort (thus drowning because it's "home point" will have moved.
Based on that, I think the risk is negligible, but I'm still nervous. Would anyone else consider doing this, or am I crazy?