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    Red or Black?

    I chose white, so that on the off chance I crash it in the trees or something, it should be easier to spot. Once in the air they all look the same.
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    Mavic Air Msg: "..Switch to atti mode.."

    I got this message a few weeks ago while flying my Air in Vermont. It popped up about 5 times during a flight that was no longer than 7 minutes. I was flying it in an area with nothing...so the magnetic interference couldn't have actually been there. The only thing I could think of was the...
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    Mavic Air Range Issue.

    That information would be in the flight data. I would download it, post it on here and see if one of the experts can take a look and see what went wrong.
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    Mavic Air Range Issue.

    It is....but you have to really understand how RTH works and set it up properly before flying, to make sure that when you need it, it's settings are correct. You've also got to make sure there are no obstacles in front of, or above, the drone during RTH. If you don't have your RTH altitude set...
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    Mavic Air Range Issue.

    I hate to be "that guy", but can you upload your flight logs and let @msinger or one of the other contributors take a look at them? 9 times out of 10 there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for this type of behavior from the drone, and as much as I hate to say it, most of the time it's some...
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    Warning for potential Mavic Air owners in urban (i.e. high interference) areas

    There's one fundamental flaw in all these "Mavic Air range test" posts and videos. They assume that EVERY Mavic Air owner cares about range. I, for one, do not....at all. Even with my Mavic Pro, I never flew it out of line of sight with the exception of maybe 1 or 2 times. And even then I...
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    Questions after update and Go4

    Just update my Air today to the latest firmware and have a couple questions. 1. With Go4 app and my old Mavic Pro, I used to be able to swipe from the left on the screen and a slider would appear to let me adjust the screen brightness. Is that gone now? 2. I plugged in the battery to charge...
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    Mavic Air now IN STOCK on Amazon

    Totally surprised, I just got it. I 100% thought Best Buy wasn’t going to come through but here it is. Ordered literally at around 4pm yesterday and showed up 12:30 today to my office.
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    Mavic Air now IN STOCK on Amazon

    You can get them from Best Buy online. I totally impulse bought it today and it's already shipped with scheduled delivery tomorrow. I really have to ban myself from online shopping one of these days! :D
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    So the distance ?

    2km is more than enough for most people I would think.
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    Why I’m most excited about the Mavic Air...

    I've got mine for sale in the classifieds for a great price, with some extras and *maybe a grand total of 2 hours flight time. ;)
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    DJI Mavic Air has been released (taking pre-orders now)

    Wifi seems sketchy doesn't it? I mean....if I walk 100 feet away from my house I lose Wifi. What kind of Wifi can reach 4km away? Does that kind of technology even exist?
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    Travel cases?

    The small ones I bought from Amazon (linked in my earlier post) work perfect. One perfectly fits the Mavic, the other perfectly fits the remote. Both fit nicely inside my backpack along with my DSLR and a few other things I travel with. Definitely recommend, especially for the grand total of...
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    Travel cases?

    Received them today. Overall good quality and fit. No smell from the outside, but they do smell kinda funky when you open them up. It's a strange chemical smell. I doused them in Lysol and left them outside my office for a few hours and that seemed to help a bit. I think it will fade away...
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    Travel cases?

    Me too. When I travel, the Mavic and controller are usually just thrown in the main compartment of my backpack along with my DSLR and a few other random things. I figured some compact cases like these aren't a bad idea.