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You got some really great angles of the boat. I'm not sure I am talented enough to keep that kind of control of a phantom around a moving boat.
That exact thing happened to me with my Phantom 2, it was not fun at all. I believe there is an option in the DJI GO app to have the home point where ever the controller is. I am 99% sure I saw that one time when I was playing around. It would be worth looking into.
I have heard of this happening several times in boating as the DJI thinks its 2 miles away from where it needs to be. I know there is a button to set the home point to be the the controllers location at that time but I beleive it sets it where the controller is at that moment and leaves it there. So when you move on the boat the home point is still set to where you had set it. Something I have yet to test is trying to set the home point on the controller while moving in other words setting it at the controller on take off then while in flight and moving trying to see if I can set it to my new location so I can keep moving it as the range extends from the original home point.
Where is this on our coast? I want to go..
It looks like the Emerald Isle area of NC but I could be wrong.
We all need to plan a weekend on a sandbar of the coast of NC.. Looks like a blast!
Yes, this was the first time I had the boat out since installing the new fins and fangs, too bad my son decided not to make any turns when he was behind the wheel, go figure. We were under 10 mph most of the time. I had him speed up at the 1:35 mark and sped up the video to keep it short. I don't think he exceeded 30 mph for more than a few seconds, one I told him the quad copter could not keep up.
It is a blast......we love the salt life! We spend most of our time in the Swansboro/Emerald Isle areas, but most of this video was shot around Sneads Ferry and the southern end of Topsail Island. I've always said a gathering down here would be great. Our schedule just fluctuates so often I'd be afraid I would invite a group and not be able to go myself!
That's exactly it, it is reserving enough battery to get back to the home point. I had the same thing happen to me when I was filming a wakeboard session. I failed to drop anchor, drifted from the home point and I was solo in the boat. So chasing the phantom driving the boat and drifting under it at the very last second to hand-land it. I don't need that stress in my life.
Would be awesome if we could put something together.. You def know the area and it would be a blast to see a bunch of yammies tied up on a sandbar..I completely understand the schedule thing.
