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Learning to Fly

01 February 2022 | Little Bay, Marystown, Newfoundland, Canada
Richard Hudson
Little Bay on a light wind day.

Yesterday was the first time I'd flown a drone from a boat underway (I have flown it from Issuma at anchor). Landing a drone on a boat underway is more complicated--there are things to avoid hitting, wind gusts raise and lower the drone, and it's not waterproof.

The drone has a return-to-home feature that will automatically fly it back to the GPS position it started from if signal is lost, or battery is low, but a moving boat has left the GPS position the drone was launched from, so returning would land the drone in the water.

Landing on a sailboat underway seems quite complicated, with needing to avoid rigging wires and also needing to consider the air currents off the sails.

So I'm still learning :)
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Vessel Name: Issuma
Vessel Make/Model: Damien II, 15m/50' steel staysail schooner with lifting keel
Extra: Designed for Antarctica. Built in France by META in 1981. Draft 1.3m/4.5' with keel up, 3.2m/10.5' with keel down. More details at http://www.issuma.com/rhudson/issumaboat/IssumaDetails.htm
Home Page: http://www.issuma.com/rhudson/
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