Recent content by Topherchris

Thanks for your response. Interesting insomuch as 3DR actually were providing replacements for water damaged units (and sending new GoPros) as the telemetry logs are saved in the controller, and therefore software and gps failures were obvious and detectable. I was denied warrantee because I...

Just throwing this out there: I use a piece of an old yoga mat for landing, works great and very light and easy to clean. I will see about painting a pattern on it if I buy the Mavic.

My Solo would let me fly from the front of my boat just fine too, but when it had an EKF error when the gps/compass failed, 3DR denied responsibility because I flew from a moving surface (wooden floating dock). Many other Solo owners had received new units for the same error but I was told to...

Does anyone know if Mavic will support "boat mode"? This is when the drone can be initialized and take off from a moving surface like a dock or boat. I understand that metal makes this tricky, but I am assuming a wooden floating dock or a fiberglass boat.

Has there been any information about boat mode? (Initialize and take off from a moving surface)

This looks like a better choice for me over Karma. But I have one reservation right now - it looks like Karma has "boat mode" (taking off from moving surfaces). Anyone know if Mavic has this?