Recent content by sbpoole

When using RTH you can also push right stick full forward to get extra speed if needed

Flew into the wind on the way out. Used RTH and full forward on the right stick to get extra speed.

I don't believe it is a heat issue. I just flew my Mavic today with the iPad mini 2 from inside the air-conditioned car and kept getting the CPU fully loaded message along with choppy video

Just did a 3 mile flight this morning, 6.1 mile round trip. Landed with 13% battery remaining, winds were about 9mph. Had several obstacle warnings due to flying into the sun, strong interference warnings, and device CPU fully loaded warnings. Display froze about 4,000 feet from home location...

Be careful mounting like that, it can push the side switch to sports mode accidentally. It is also hard to manually switch it to sports mode because the bracket will be right up against that switch. Also mount the IPad with the home button on the right side to get the strong magnets on the...

My tip is if you want to assure that RTH can perform a precision landing, always take off from an area that has a distinguishable feature so that the bottom facing optical sensors can differentiate it from the surrounding area. I always take off from a round orange helipad with a big white "H"...

I just returned from a Carnival cruise to the Dominican Republic, St. Thomas, Puerto Rico, and Grand Turk. I had the Mavic fly more combo and accessories in a backpack. No problems getting through the airports. Upon boarding the ship, I sent my backpack through the x-ray and the security...