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I guess the drone wouldn't be able to launch from the water if it had landed upside-down?

(As a concept, this is amazing - excited to see how well it works in practice.)

Waterproof will be amazing safety for kitesurfing and surfing in general, quadcopters are super cool, but you don't want to drop one in salty water. There are already techie stuff for kiters, we use the Woo device and gopros a lot.

Most areas have a club to keep members under control (irresponsible kiting can be dangerous to people not in the sea, unlike surfing) ... our club is keen on getting Woos, GoPros, webcams, internet enabled wind-o-meters etc... Hope they decide to get one of these!!

I can't imagine that propellers play nicely with kites...

if you could but a beacon of the leading edge of the kite and setup a NO GO zone between the remote and the kite's beacon that would solve that issue.

Sounds good in theory, but in practice kites can move really fast when manoeuvring or doing tricks. No guarantee that the drone would always avoid you successfully. You'd have to stay aware of where it is and where it's going, which would probably interfere with your kiting significantly.

Waterpoof also means we can start seeing drone footage from within rain storms.

I would think the wind in a storm would pose a challenge, but I'd love to see that.

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