Operating a drone from a moving boat can be a nerve-wracking experience for most pilots, especially since you don’t want your drone to end up in the water. Many operators rely on hand-catching the drone – a method that’s highly successful with the DJI Phantom 4 series that has its landing gear underneath the drone. But what about the more recent Mavic 2 drones?
Many patrol boats, used close to the shores around the world, have a small deck for launching and landing drones. For an inexperienced pilot, one wrong move could mean that the drone falls into the water. On the other hand, catching the drone with bare hands could put the operator in harm’s way.
This is a problem that Singapore-based company, Volarious, understands well, having worked closely with firefighters and police drone teams on land-based tethered drone systems. So now, Volarious has launched a new product called the V-Line Boat Mode so that the whole process of a DJI Mavic 2 drone taking…
