I've been working on getting my hexacopter out over the ocean for a few months. Partly because I've had a few glitches over land and I wanted to make sure I was 100% confident the hardware wasn't going to fail. If I were to drop this thing into the ocean, I'm pretty sure my wife would consider it grounds for divorce.

After months of practice and patience, I finally took it out into the ocean. A few of us headed up the coast to The Entrance for a kite session, and I took the copter out for a fly.

The camera gimbal still needs a lot of work. It's meant to keep the horizon level at all angles of flight. You'll notice from the video it's far from working as it should. It also had a lot of shake which I needed to take out using software smoothing (makes the video kinda look like jelly). I'll probably need to spend a bit of money to get it working properly... In the meantime I'll deal with it as is.

The hexacopter is flown completely through a set of goggles that have two screens in them. I see exactly what the copter sees. Range on this is about 2km.

Wind on this day was about 20 knots.

I can't wait for a clean day of light west winds and big swell. Should be able to get some awesome surf footage.

Comments welcome!