Recent content by Malavic

My reference to Magic was that I used Dumbldore, not that it was a particularly mystical process.

Actually, I should be able to fly towards the front of my house and away. It wouldn't let me do anything, it would beep, honk, disconnect, rinse repeat. The NFZ is 150+ feet away. My Mavic has been very stable, I've never had any issues with it. I shut everything down...restarted, same BS.

Actually I am not. I am on my deck, not in nfz and the Mavic won't fly properly. It beeps honks and disconnects with near nfz on controller

Yes, it's true. He is staying in Bedminster NJ, just about exactly 30 miles from me. The TFR zone line runs through my back yard. I take off from my deck and the I get "near NFZ" on the controller and the aircraft seems to go batty. Disconnects, won't move, lost connect. I'm 10 feet...

I'm like a broken record. I purchase SD/Micro cards for a business and myself, I buy hundreds a year. I only have had problems with the Sandisk Micros. Even the cheapest bargain cards I could find have been ok, but I've sent 12 Sandisk micro cards back. 3 in the last month. I've had no...

I updated to .800 last night. I'm in the US. It took about 20 minutes. I was already logged into the app. I took off, flew around for 15 minutes without issue, landed. I put my tablet into airplane mode then I shut everything off. I restarted everything and then flew around for another few...

You need to CSC, both sticks, down and in. A couple things.... Be in an open area outside. Not inside!!!!!! Set your Return to home point above the highest point. 30m is often not enough. Don't fly it over water or out of sight until you have some decent flights under your belt. On your...

It often rains in Ketchikan. That said, it often isn't! Sometimes the cloud deck is low, other times it's bright sunny. Don't let the weather deter you, take your mavic. All of the town is a class E NFZ, but it doesn't take much to get away from that. A trip down the road either...

There is no way to do it except to block the GPS. Funny but Anthony Cumia took his Mavic on a Cruise recently and flew it in his suite without a problem. He took it out on the balcony and as long as it was over the balcony, no problem. The moment he moved it off the balcony, it shot to the...

Broken blades, pitch roll records, picture of a tree...seems pretty conclusive to me. Make him own up to it.

You should remove the gimbal clamp before powering on your Mavic. It won't damage anything, at least if you do it once or twice, I know I have by accident. I certainly wouldn't want to make a habit of it.

I think you will find that you can get a significant amount of noise reduction by cutting a sawtooth pattern into the trailing edge of the blades. Anyone who has looked at the engine nacelle on a Boing 787 will notice this immediately. The reason is fairly complex but it involves how the...

No, it actually did what it was supposed to do, you just happened to have had a ceiling in the way. Eventually even the cheapest drones will have collision avoidance in every direction but we're not there yet. An inspire 2 would have stopped but at 4 times the cost.

If you used the precision landing checkbox, yes, it was your fault. That said, I know that in my version of the Go.4 app, it warns you it will rise up. Did yours present you with that warning? They probably should prevent precision landing if you aren't in view of any sats, or at least pop...

In general, I find it much easier to just to do the CSC as in, both sticks down and in and then you can control it. I've used the take off slider twice out of maybe 80 flights just to see what it does.