Recent content by fiberdude

As someone who travels frequently to EU with a fleet of DJI drones including M2P and M3P, I have to say M3P is no rival of M2P as the former is limited by the 120m altitude ceiling In EU. Only on open sea, M3P can go beyond 4km with good signals (recording coastal scenery). It is basically a...

About 5-6 years ago when I was a newbie with a Mavic Pro (my 1st DJI purchase), I once launched the drone between two tall glass buildings with a home point clearly set up. Everything seemed to be fine until I pressed the RTH button -- instead of flying back to the HP, it flew away from it...

MP = Mavic Pro; MPP = Mavic Pro Platinum. The two are pretty the same drone inside and out. In 2019, when DJI flagship store in the city of Shenzhen ran out of refurb MP, they gave me a free "upgrade" to a refurb MPP instead. Replacing a certain component in the drone will take quite some time...

MP and MPP have the weakest gimble set. When you have an exchange for crash MP/MPP and get a REFURBISHED copy of MP/MPP (DJI will NOT give you a brandnew, box-sealed MP/MPP in such a situation), there is a high chance that the gimble turns out to be faulty. It's much more likely now than 4-5...

Nice island you are hanging out on. The home point on the beach seems to be shielded from wind, but when the drone was vertically above the highway (around 100m in altitude, 60% battery, see below), the wind could be strong. MM is known to be weak against wind in the normal mode. It is...

Here is one possibility: a low-flying helicopter just above the treetops can hit the drone from behind or sides. The drone pilot would have no idea what happened to the drone before power is out. A few years ago, a small Kyiv copter almost destroyed my Mavic 2 Pro over a tiny island in the...

DJI, as an established brand name in the amateur drone business, has more to gain by acknowledging failure of their hardware and/or flightcontrol software if there is indeed evidence to support such failure. $235 is very little money in comparison. I have to say DJI has been quite honest in...

Depending on how tall the trees are in your neighborhood, 100 ft AGL could be barely over the treetops? Since you were filming sunrise, it would be possible the drone hit a tree and lost power.

Hi all, I am late to the party :) Mavic Mini 1 and Mini SE (the one NeilRob just lost to a nearby tree) are two Mavic models _unlike_ any other DJI drones (I have owned 4 other types of DJI drones, including a Phantom 4 Pro and 3 more serious models of the Mavic series). Their signals are...

What you said in this above post contradicts the FlightRecord video you posted under this thread: 1) you tried moving the drone vertically up and down at the boundary of the authorization zone (not NFZ), and it responded perfectly, gaining vertical speed in excess of 6.7 MPH (see snapshot #1...

The drone was clearly responding to your stick inputs by going vertically up or down (i.e., you had FULL CONTROL of the Mavic 2 Zoom). What you should have done was steering your drone toward west. I encountered a similar (but worse) situation when my Mavic 2 Pro was on RTH after going behind...

Yes, it's typo 🤣 I heard the aussie prices are much higher (in USDs).

As comparison, Mavic 3 prices in Singapore (inclusive of 7% GST) are: CINE US$ 5199 Flymore US$ 2799 Basic US$ 2199 https://store.dji.com/sg/product/dji-mavic-3?from=homepage&site=brandsite&vid=109821

DJI Mavic 3 review (1080p, 17 mins) (only limited window of availability)

DJI Mavic 3 CINE: 32,888 CNY (5,137 USD) DJI Mavic 3 Flymore: 17,688 CNY (2,762 USD) Cheapest Mavic 3 set: 13,888 CNY (2,169 USD)