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    Georgia man accused of shooting, damaging workers' $15K drone

    From our local newspaper: Georgia man accused of shooting, damaging workers' $15K drone A Newnan man was arrested after police said he fired shots and damaged a crew’s $15,000 drone while they were using it to photograph their work Friday. Coweta County sheriff’s deputies said they were...
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    What destroyed these two Mavic Air batteries? Logs attached.

    Great idea- but that option does not appear in Battery preferences for my original Mavic Air. I'm running on an iPhone XS with the latest DJI Go 4 version 4.3.37. Software update on my phone shows no newer version available. Screenshot of my preferences appear above in post #13.
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    What destroyed these two Mavic Air batteries? Logs attached.

    This thread has got me wishing there was a way to change the the Battery Level display from % to volts. And to change the Low Battery warning from % to volts as well. But I'll make it a point now during flight to periodically toggle that display to volts. Thanks again gang!
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    What destroyed these two Mavic Air batteries? Logs attached.

    Thanks gang- awesome info and discussion! My Mavic Air was purchased 18 months ago in February 2019, but apparently the batteries were about a year old at that time. I am unable to pull up any data on the two batteries that died since they won't power up my Mavic for DJI Go to look at them...
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    What destroyed these two Mavic Air batteries? Logs attached.

    Thanks again Starz. My experience though was that they don't stay fully charged- even when left in the charger. I checked on this frequently when I first got my Mavic until I was confident of the Intelligent Charge/Discharge features. From the Mavic Air manual: Auto-Discharging Function...
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    What destroyed these two Mavic Air batteries? Logs attached.

    Thanks Starz. All the warnings that I got are there in my logs- none battery related until the charge plummeted to zero. My Mavic has been pretty lightly flown in the time I've had it, and the batteries are the originals that came with the Fly More package. They have for the most part lived...
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    What destroyed these two Mavic Air batteries? Logs attached.

    Hey gang- With humble thanks to this forum, I've just enjoyed 18 months of accident and damage free flying of my Mavic Air- my first drone ever. But last night left me scratching my head. I appear to have destroyed two batteries and I don't know how or why. Background: I was flying around...
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    Renew DJI care refresh?

    Hey gang- Got an email today from DJI offering to let me renew my DJI Care Refresh for one year. Includes one replacement for $79 for a year. I never needed a replacement this first year (knock wood). Are most Mavic Air users renewing if possible? Thanks!
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    My first shared video...flying off our boat!

    Thanks Nautidog for the kind words. Yep- our 1984 Tartan 28. With regard to maneuvering near the stays, shrouds, rails, mast, and the rest. I practiced quite a bit at our dock, and the only way to do it with a sailboat IMHO is to turn off Visual Obstacle Avoidance and Landing Protection...
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    New member from upstate NY (the REAL upstate)

    In general, "not Canada but you can see it from there" ? In practice though, there is always somebody upstate who will claim "upstate" is only xxx where anyplace else isn't. I'm from Utica, and while most would agree that is Upstate, it does fail the "see Canada" test. And besides, everyone...
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    My first shared video...flying off our boat!

    Thanks! One thing I'm not clear on is the relationship between gimbal movement and the aircraft yaw rate. For a user standpoint, my impression is that we can only control the gimbal pitch (i.e. up/down). My gut feeling is I need to slow down or desensitize yaw response of the Mavic. Does...
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    My first shared video...flying off our boat!

    Thank you MadMax! She's a 1984 Tartan 28. A labor of love, and she sails like a dream. WRT RTH, my plan when I do finally fly my Mavic Air when we are sailing is to set RTH to Hover. If we disconnect for some reason, we can probably tack about and sail back to the Mavic rather than...
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    My first shared video...flying off our boat!

    Wow thank you Bruce! It will take me some time to digest all that, but that's what I was hoping for. I looked at some filters and surprising how the price jumps between a set with 4,8,16 and 4,8,16,32. With regard to yaw and panning, do you think Cinematic mode would do the trick as...
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    French Polynesia Island of Mo'orea

    Thank you Pete! Amazing photos! Might you also share some video? We stayed at your Hilton Moorea back in 2007 when it was still the Sheraton Moorea. It was my wife's 40th so we splurged on an end-most over-water bungalow. Such wonderful memories! And so glad in your photos to see it...
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    What’s the best editing software to start with?

    I take it nobody uses the DJI Go4 Editor? I'm new to my Mavic Air so had some small success working with Go4 Editor, but I can see its limits. I do have iMovie on my iMac and sounds like some folks use it. Does iMovie offer the royalty-free music loops like Go 4 does?