I own 5
Mavic 3 batteries for my
Mavic 3 and over 350 flights. My average flight time per battery is around 18 minutes. How realistic is it to reach the advertised 43 minutes per flight?
Mavic 3 also here. I fly around 30 minutes average per flight. Of course wind, hover, speed, altitude and much more factor in.
(ALL looped LOS distances below, NOT radio range distance from controller).
M3: 34 minutes took me 17.5 miles in one flight. Did a few 17.6 mile flights the same also. (Pic below) Less time less miles yes.
Attached profile shot my last few flights. I usually fly far yes.
There is a balance of more distance in time. Too slow is less distance much like too fast is less distance on one charge.
Staying aloft 46 minutes, would mean perfect “lab” conditions at a controlled speed (somewhere in DJI literature) under all perfect conditions. Hover time is less aloft time than forward movement. More hover and you run down the battery faster. 46 minutes they claim would be one hell of a feat.
I have seen no one make that though.
I often flew my
MA2 at 28-30 minutes, and did reach 11.5 miles, their max claimed flight distance for that craft. That was done at 6400ft MSL. Have asked on this and other forums for longer attempts also but no replies.
I have not attempted a super-max distance on my
M3 yet. Will do that one at altitude also hopefully soon.
Yes there is a long list of techniques I keep for max flight distance on one battery charge.
Final answer: Flying 46 minutes on one charge on a
M3, I would be seriously impressed!
30-34 minutes, quite common and easy to fly that.
Safe Flying,
KI5RLL