Hey hey from San Jose! Welcome to the Mavic club, it's a great bird and worth learning to fly without all the aids, then enjoy not needing to fly manual haha, see you around!
There's a pretty good battery discussion here somewhere (and battery life and usage theory is an always contended topic)
Personally I'll fly to 20-30% provided I'm in a safer flight area in case 20 goes to 0 spontaneously... Then a full charge before I go to fly the next time
Absolutely!
Tail in or out is essentially flying towards or away from yourself, which of course reverses controls (flying nose towards you makes left = right and vice versa)
With a quad it's even trickier because it's much harder at a glance to tell which was is the nose (helis have tail...
Thanks for the giveaway!
My protip comes from flying single rotor helis and applies even more to quads:
Learn to fly Tail-in and Tail-out - no other aids.
When GPS fails, modes switch, wind tries to overtake or anything else, being able to re-orient quick and fly to safety is the difference...
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