Recent content by boone

Quality advice here.

I don't have any fancy math for you, but just some personal experience I'll share. I live by the ocean, and I fly primarily over water. I can tell you that I personally learned early on to not only take into consideration the wind speed, but also its direction when flying out over the ocean. And...

It’s worth easily twice that.

I've lived a similar story to this multiple times now. While I've had a few interactions that started out terse, not one of them has ended that way. I always try to place my mavic in the air so we can see it safely away from people, and then I'll engage with them and explain that I need to focus...

If you’ve never flown a drone before at all, I would highly recommend just throwing down maybe 50 US on Amazon and get yourself a cheap quad or even a little helicopter to start out with. You’re going to crash whatever you fly first. It might as well be five or ten of these little cheap things...

Meant that if enabled when you flip, it will disable it. Should have been clearer.

It will also disable RTH

Promise

I'll take "CRC or battery not seated correctly" for 800, Alex. Very sorry for your misfortune. Hopefully the fought data will show a malfunction dji will cover for you. Fingers crossed for you

Not at all. And I use the bag. It's definitely functional.

I still don't think it would be a good idea for the OP to post the video. There are too many unresolved parts to this story, most of them listed in the comments (some even by lawyers). I'm dying to see it too, but I think bleedgr33n is making the right call for now. Unfortunately it sounds like...

I want to say I'm 100% sure I had OAS disabled, but I will verify. There was an on screen radar icon that goes red when I have it disabled. And it warns me if I try to use active track etc. pretty sure it's OAS, but I'm questioning myself now. I'll double check.

And vertical is the evasive action you want to take.

Holy cow, I haven’t read through the entire thread because I got a little excited when I saw this. I have nearly identical footage. Same epic sunset, near miss bird, same boats. Only I recorded my footage saturday a little after the time of your original post. Weird. I’ll try to post the clip...

I’ll repeat something I’ve said before. It was the info and feedback I found in *this forum that gave me the confidence to not completely lose my mind when something went wrong that first time. Since then, I’ve had more failures of different kinds, but I’ve gained confidence in my abilities...