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    Need help retrieving drone

    Since I am a fisherman I like the fishing idea. if you could figure out what kind of weight to use that would not do any damage to window or building. maybe a tennis ball that might be to light but you could inject it with water "with hole glued over"" keep the window clean." and attach...
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    Mavic Mini 1 Batteries

    I have a mini 1 and after a day of flying I make sure all three batteries have two lights on and one blinking. and I suppose I should do the same with the controller, but I don't. I have several devices that use li ion cells and when I run across a cell or battery that has sat to long to take a...
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    Need help retrieving drone

    BALOON, HELIUM, FISH LINE, TWO 1/8 INC H DOWLS X SHAPE UNDER BALOON. LINE AROUND TIPS OF DOWLS MAYBE TWO LINES TO GROUND AND A BUDDY FOR MORE CONTROL.
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    Why flying BVLOS isn't a good idea . . .

    I was camped in my motor home in a popular camping area in southern Arizona when I heard a jet plane flying low and fast about a 1/2 mile N. of our camper so I rushed outside to take a look and the aircraft was about eye level doing about 500 MPH when I then heard a strange noise directly...
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    Catching poachers ........

    another good one I saw the other day was ....PRIVATE PROPERTY NO TRESPASSING I have a backhoe
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    help, just got my mini last Friday and its grounded. I cant trust it, it wants to flyaway.

    I have picked up a few used drones at yard sales ( back when we had them ) and not knowing what they were going to do I would tie a braided fish line around the balance point of the drone then place it on two 2x8 on edge then loosely coil line on smooth surface under drone and firmly tie off...
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    How wrong ....or right am I?

    You are going to love your drone. I just bought a mavic mini and will use it to scout in remote areas for gold. I am a private pilot and know what you can see from the air that you could miss from ground search. I also use google earth , binoculars ,and a trail bike but the drone will add more...
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    Lost Mavic Mini in top of a tree

    I lost a toy drone in a tree a few months ago and I did not know if it was on the ground or up high up somewhere I could touch the throttle and hear a prop turn but the under brush was so thick I had to crawl on hands and knees to get any where near the sound but could not find it so I went home...