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    Xiaomi's entrance in the drone market. DJI should seriously pay attention to their customers now.

    I used to build and fly quads way back and then moved to fixed wing FPV using goggles, but follow this thread out of interest in what's happening with the technology. I see the Xiaomi has a small controller that will fit a phone - here's my question for all these craft - how is it possible to...
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    (Poll) How old are we?

    Not a Mavic pilot, but read the thread, and astonished to see the average age at 61-70, had expected it to be around 30-40, but maybe the cost is too much for many younger folks. 64 myself. My preference is wing racing (and crashing), but started out building quads when the first NAZA Lite came...
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    Thinking about a Mavic - I have a couple of questions

    Not so easy then. I have a 360' pan servo on the top of my 55" flying wing which turns a flight cam and HD cam and I can use that to track and film another fairly slow plane flying close by using a slider on the transmitter to spin the servo and see the image thro goggles. But I have to spin to...
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    Thinking about a Mavic - I have a couple of questions

    Thanks for the welcome folks. I thought that it would be restricted, but since my fixed wing models can take me as far as I want, that's not a deal breaker by any means. Much more of pain with the RE goggles as I wanted to use those for fixed wing flying as well. No lock-on for something as...
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    Thinking about a Mavic - I have a couple of questions

    I used to fly home built multirotors but most of my flying recently has been fixed wing. However, I like the look of the Mavic. Have a couple of questions if you guys could help out. Firstly, I know the DJI RE goggles have the power downrated for EU countries under the CE type approval - is...