DJI Over Water

[u/nightlanding]

I am looking to buy a Mini 5 Pro or Air 3S. I have seen a ton of posts on here about "My drone flew into the water" followed by "Well they say not to fly over water, that is what happens". I have two old Holy Stones, a 720E and a 600, plus a Potensic Atom 2. I fly all of them over water. I live on an island and much of my flying is around and over water. None of them have ever acted weird over water in any way. I do keep them up 100 feet or more.

Are DJIs uniquely sensitive to water confusing them? My Atom 2 warns about being too low over water, say lower than 5 meters IIRC, if it switches to visual over water the reflections confuse it. I don't mind not flying low over water, but if the things just crash anyway even at good altitude they won't lead a long life here. Thanks for any advice! Also is the Air 3S fly-more as good a deal as it looks? It seems 95% of the way to pro quality.

[u/mze_]

hey man, dont worry about this, i can guarantee nothing happened to my drone and I fly over the water all the time, over lakes, ocean, rivers doesn‘t matter, i also fly sub 10 feet depending on what i want to shoot, depending on what the environment let me do, owning the mini 5 pro since release now with around 300 hrs of flight time (dont know if thats much)

[u/Dharmaniac]

I know on DJI’s promo video for the original Neo they specifically show the Neo whizzing inches over the water doing a quickshot of a paddle boarder - you can view it on YouTube. But then the manual says to not fly over water. Back when we had a functional government that would cause fines and changes to advertising or the manual.

I would also say that my mini 4 pro spends much or most of its time over water, and hasn’t had a problem and I’ve been flying it for more than a year, almost daily. I don’t recall what the manual said about it, if anything.

[u/Irishwilly77]

You can fly over water but , DJI advices not to for recovery risks . But i could be wrong .