Recent content by Erock

It just occurred to me that to catch the full effect of the light change, I'll have to lock the exposure settings so the Mavic doesn't compensate for the diminishing / increasing light. It would suck to have a 2+min vid of the surroundings perfectly exposed during this rare celestial event !

Well, I'm at Ground Zero in Depoe Bay Oregon and have been wondering the same things discussed here. I really like the idea presented of just videoing the surrounding area as the light changes (in hyperlapse perhaps?). It may be the only thing we get. Being a small coastal town, we are subject...

I've had my Mavic for several months now and relatively trouble free but since the latest avalanche of updates I'm not able to ascend above ~30m. I live within a mile and a half of a small, uncontrolled coastal airport so I suspect I'm being geofenced by the software. I've reviewed all the...

Looks like, smells like, tastes like SPAM "free testing" or not.

I wonder if it's the controller detecting the RF interference rather than the drone itself? I was video'ing a sunset tonight and had the Mav at 160' but I was about 15' from my wifi router...hmmm...I'll be checking that out later.

Not at all! At the time I wrote that I was a bit timid about flying over the water, that's no longer the case ...mostly.

Ian, wouldn't you be able to locate your lost Mavic by finding the Lat/ long from the last transmission location in the flight log and use a handheld GPS to home in on it?

The download and installation went in with no problems. Upon initialization, however, the display came up as normal on the tablet but there was no video. Any ideas? Normally I use a Samsung Galaxy 7 edge . I tried the tablet because, as we've discovered, bigger is better... In most cases.

I flew mine today in a steady 20–22 mph. camera was rocksteady even in POI mode .

Huh! That's good to know! Thanks and safe flying!

(I really tried to figure it out or find it in the manual...honest.) :( I know the 'D', 'H', 'HS', 'VS' are measurements of speed, height or distance but I don't know what the VPS readout tells me. (I know I'm going to have a "Doh!" moment when someone tells me) :eek:

I've been trying recalibrate my Mav compass but kept getting a 'strong magnetic influence' error message while going through the process. I tried different locations in the apt.- went outside and walked around in the parking lot - still a looong red bar on the read-out. It started to rain so I...

Good plan. I really don't think you can over-educate yourself on drone operation. I've been scouting out flying areas here in Lincoln City and it looks like clear-cuts are going to be my main flight arena for the time being. I'm hoping to talk with local area ranchers and farmers about using...

My Mav will be here tomorrow!!! YAAAY! Been watching videos, reading the manual continuously for 3 weeks and I'm soooo ready for some hands-on! Any fellow pilots nearby?