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Amadeus - How to fish a drone



My home country, Hungary is a landlocked country , we do not have sea. We have a beautiful lake, Lake Balaton, where we can sail. I do enjoy Balaton, the beatiful scenery, the warm freshwater to swim in, good wines , good food around the lake. What i really miss is the wind. Balaton is famous for its light and unpredictable wind. Unfortunately I do not like to sail without wind. This is the reason why I am here: to sail in the most predictable wind of the Earth, in the trade winds. Constant NE direction, 15-25 kn. Sounds good.

In reality we have 2-4 kn wind, from rapidly changing direction. It is worse than at home :-)

Quite boring day. No wind at all. What can we do? Swimming, ok, ...eating..drinking a beer, fishing, .. swimming, eating... fishing... and what else..???
Yes, we can fly THE drone :-) Beautiful weather, calm see, no swell.. perfect conditions.

We took some beautiful footages, everything went well. Now let's land the drone. Thisis always very tricky on a moving boat. Bur we were prepaired, the drone proceeded nicely to the boat. But suddenly it started to spin around and ditched into the water. What a hell?!!

We forgot the fishing line! The drone got caught in the invisible line, tried to escape, but had no chance, it ducked into the water. We were lucky that finally we could fish out the drone with the help of the line and did not lose it in the end. I have not yet tried if it works (still drying...), however, it's probably broken, these devices rarely enjoy bathing in seawater.

Fingers crossed for the goodwill of the insurance company!



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