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    Looking for advice from Singaporean Mavic pilots

    The flagship store is at Peninsula Plaza. But I suggest that Gatzu1 calls the store before he visits it as Mavic stocks at Cathay Photo tends to run out as fast as they can stock them (at least that was the case when I bought mine a few months back)
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    Battery Plastic Turning Purple Tinted?

    Tried using the Go 4 app to check on the health status of the battery, and to see if any reading is amiss?
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    Range in congested areas?

    From my own experience, seems like a lot. In a residential area, with clusters of 2-storey houses in the vicinity, I managed to get as far as 600m before I get poor connection warnings on my app (and on a few occasions, complete disconnections for about 1-2 secs!). Taking off from a clearing...
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    Looking for advice from Singaporean Mavic pilots

    On DJI's website, you will find the list of authorised sellers for Singapore. Helpful if you should discover problems with the drone within 7 days of purchase. The Drone Shop is one of them, and they are pretty friendly and approachable. The others on the list include Singapore Hobbies, Cathay...
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    Best Mavic Pro deals in Canada?

    The Camera Store in Calgary DJI Mavic Pro DJI Mavic Pro Fly More Bundle
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    Weak transmission signal

    I noticed that too. Whenever there are trees near where I operate the RC, I tend to get one/zero bars of transmission strength at 400-500 meters (apologies for using metric units) from the Mavic. With just a few trees around, I am able to fly up to 1500 meters. I live in a city where it's...
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    Mavic flight instruction video?

    I think this may be what you are looking for: Free two-hour Mavic Pro video course
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    Does everyone need to power on your Mavic Pro before putting on a filter

    I use PolarPro ND filters, and they do not affect the gimbal calibration movement at startup.
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    Properly battery treatment during discharge

    Did you try scrolling up? On mine (iPhone), if the previous setting was 10 days, the size of the box will only allow the display of options between 5 days and 10 days unless you scroll up.
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    Singapore visit - ok to fly at Boat Quay?

    This webpage may help: Area Limits I have read somewhere that all National Parks and reservoir areas are off-limits too.
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    What changes would you like to see on the Mavic

    Ability to set Failsafe RTH to hover for a pre-determined period of time before proceeding to fly home (or to RTH height) to give pilot an opportunity to regain control of the craft.