Drone photos

[Laminar Flow]

Aren't photos from drones a bit '2018'?

It's OK; I'm (officially) old now and hence suspended from having to cater to the whim of fashion, fads or trends.

 

[Baroudeur]

Interesting post. Agree, retrieval is the biggest problem . The posts by Pandorak are quite spectacular. He also showed how he made a handle stick to safely retrieve his Mavic. Our problem is that on our ketch the rigging represents a veritable maze of obstacles and this precludes any similarity to land-based operations including the use of landing pads.
The rather draconian restrictions in my home country and the necessity to travel, and not wishing to deal with other foreign bureaucracies, pretty much restricts me to drones under 250g.
In this class, flight times, speed to overcome wind and stability in rough conditions might be a problem. The Mavic mini seems somewhat promising in this respect, but speed is not its major forte. Another concern I have is that various accessories to make retrieval easier/safer, such as floats will further reduce speed and potentially, agility.

The floats come off btw, and just leave a grabbable framework.. Also, the mini has minimal obstacle avoidance, which in this scenario is both good and bad (you can crash more easily, but it also won’t necessarily see you as a thing to avoid, making it easier to catch). Also speed is very variable on wind - they all fly like the clappers on a downwind leg

Mavic’s replacement policy is quite cost effective and can make losing it in the sea a little less of a hit..

Anyway, I love mine. Use it a lot, and nope, I don’t have a youtube channel

 

[Refueler]

Thank you for that. I have wondered about the hanging tether thing myself. The only place I could see retrieving a drone on my boat would be amidships which makes for a fairly small target area.

Motors only stop when LEFT stick down if the Drone detects no movement as if its landed ... otherwise you have to do CSC .. which is both sticks IN and DOWN together ... - this is the emergency shutdown ...

If you try to catch a DJi / Yuneec or other quality drone by a hanging tether - you will have literally an angry cat by the tail - because the drone's flight controller will do everything to get it upright and back under control .... that;s 4 meat cleaver 10" props .....