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    Anyone label Mavic with your phone number?

    Holy thread revival. I haven’t been on this site in years, I show up and this ancient thread was revived today and is at the top of the thread listing. :rolleyes:
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    Leg Extenders

    Today I found a reason you may NOT want to use these! The legs are grippy to the surface they are landing on. I was landing (manually not RTH) today on a flat cardboard box that I use on my lawn as a landing pad. The craft was drifting a lot due to wind and I mistakenly let it get to auto-land...
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    precision landing protocol question

    Wow, this is the first report like this to bother me. First off, you have extensive experience with the Mavic Pro so I'm quite sure it's not user error. Second because I often land in a relatively tight landing area (obstructions on 3 sides) so if this issue kicked in, my quad would drift into a...
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    precision landing protocol question

    What I meant was that if your volume is turned down on your mobile device, you won't hear the voice telling you that the Home Point has been set.
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    precision landing protocol question

    How about using the facts about Precision Landing from the manual? 1-2m is NOT enough per the documentation. From the 1.2 version of the User Manual:
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    precision landing protocol question

    Make sure you don't accidentally have the volume turned down. I had that and was wondering where the announcement went, it was my volume! (simple fix). I haven't flown since the latest update came down, will check it when I fly next.
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    Leg Extenders

    I was trolling around AliExpress and found these: Free shipping DJI Mavic Pro Silicone Landing Gear Landing Feet Bracket Protector damping and heightening-in Parts & Accessories from Toys & Hobbies on Aliexpress.com | Alibaba Group at only $2.30 delivered (from China no less). I bought 2 sets...
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    Beginner mode sudden drift

    Please double check the user guide. 15ft doesn't get you anything on RTH. You will get a notification that home point has been updated as you take off (even a few feet). Next, if you want precision landing, a good guidance is to proceed to over 10m in height. That's 33ft, so bring it up 35 feet...
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    Putting Wings or Winglets on a Mavic?

    Let me make it simpler. AlanTheBeast is stating this (with my wording): Imagine flying a waterproof helo, under a column of falling water (a waterfall). Yes of course it would get knocked out of the air. But IF it could fight back, with more power, it would hover in the waterfall. In real life...
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    SD Card Recovery

    Mac OS X has the equivalent of chkdsk, but it was really not seeing much there, not sure if it would have helped. In the Mac world you normally stay in the GUI and the GUI failed to help you. Here's an example fro the CLI . Use "diskutil list" to find the device (in this case /dev/disk3, in...
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    precision landing protocol question

    No No. Take off. You will hear a voice telling you home position recorded. Fly vertically-only to over 10m (call it 33 ft, I head to about 34-35 to be sure). I pause there but there's no need to wait for an additional notification.
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    About to pull the trigger on a new Mavic and curious about a few things

    Non of the non-cell iPads have the GPS capability. At least not any that make sense for the Mavic Pro.
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    About to pull the trigger on a new Mavic and curious about a few things

    All iPads have wifi. I think you mean "IPads without cell/3G (SIM cards) have no GPS chip". This is true. You don't need to pay for SERVICE, you just need the 3G/SIM enabled iPad in order get the appropriate chip in them to do GPS.
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    Skin's to prevent bird attacks?

    Just a report here from Texas, more on birds that have zero aggression: There is a large migration of robins that are going through our neighborhood. Every evening as we approach sundown, thousands of robins cross my neighborhood, groups of 20-100 or more streaming for a good 45 minutes. I've...
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    precision landing protocol question

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