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Jjourno reacted to D-Wreck BXNY's post in the thread Should I even be flying this old Mavic Mini? with
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I flew it for the first time again several times in Maine, and as you said it was just as reliable and easy to control as I remembered. It really was the original game changer drone. -
Jjourno replied to the thread Should I even be flying this old Mavic Mini?.I flew the Mavic Mini since I became a 107 pilot in 2019 and absolutely relied on it for so many jobs until 107s had to be Remote ID compliant. It should definitely be in the DJI drone hall of fame; it really changed everything -- fast to deploy...
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JGreat summary from the Time To First Fix Wikipedia link: "The TTFFs for a cold start is typically between 2 and 4 minutes, a warm start is 45 seconds (or shorter), and a hot start is 22 seconds (or only a few seconds). In older hardware where...
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JThe guy who trained you didn't understand what compass calibration actually does or when it might be required (almost never). His training was guided by the compass misinformation that DJI used to put in their manuals. Read the first post from...
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Jjourno replied to the thread Compass Calibration.Late to the party on this one, but I know what you're saying. I started flying in 2019 with a gen1 Mavic Mini and would get the calibrate compass warning fairly regularly. Most of the time I felt I probably was near metal, like launching from a...