Recent content by davmcw

About 120 hours and 1000 miles here and still flawless.

My brother in law had the same issue today with his Samsung phone and new Mavic. Restarted the phone and it connected. Previously, restarting the app only hadn't worked.

True beach flying story...remote beach, few people. I'm flying sorties up and down the beach a hundred yards or so offshore. Battery is low so I bring it to the shore 300 yards from my location, pause there for a minute 200 feet up and snap a pic or two and then bring the MP home to me. Half...

Doug, There is no reason to ever be in this situation if you don't want to be...that is, looking for a drone that has emergency landed on its way home because the battery has died. As a new flier you should not be operating anywhere near the edge of the operating parameters anyway. It is so...

Uh, yes. There are signal strength meters on both the remote and the app. They mirror each other. Please don't fly out of visual line of sight until you familiarize yourself with the controls and the machine itself.

Correct. I don't use Litchi because I find it glitchy (get it). I do use Ground Station Pro by DJI and find it to be rock solid. I lose connection on missions all the time and it always completes the mission. One mission programming error though and you are screwed. I sneak up on long...

Probably taking off from a bad spot like some have already suggested. Rebar in concrete can cause issues, underground pipes, etc. There is one spot on my driveway that works...nowhere else due to metal contained in the cement I assume.

Looopson, also remember the connection is sensitive to alignment between the controller and Mavic even with antennas arrayed correctly. Especially at distance and when at the edge of the signal strength wether it be 2000' or 10,000'. I was 10k out last week in a just mildly obstructed/congested...

JManges...I salute you! Very nice and you obviously found the right speed for efficiency (32mph). I did a 27k round trip yesterday (by hand with none of the efficiencies of a programmed waypoint mission) and made it home with 42% left so I can see how what you were trying is feasible. I love...

25,000 feet? One way? How close did you get to making it back?

Agreed.

What he said.

The real nightmare scenario with this known issue would have been if you had lost connection with the Mavic and it had tried to return home on its own into the sun. In that scenario it would potentially never make it back before the battery died. It would "hit" the sun, stop, rise a few feet in...

First of all, you have your antennae pointed incorrectly. Your distance is reasonable for a congested area like a city or suburbs with moderate obstructions. Not too different from what I get most places around where I live in the Houston northern suburbs. However, when I get a true...

Interesting. Thx