Recent content by Matt W

Yes no doubt many people including myself will need to find a new source of income when we can no longer replace or repair our drones. This conversation started as “prove to me how bad actors can use drone footage to harm national security”. It has turned into a discussion about what happens to...

Drones are nice tools among many to accomplish a mission. If they all fell out of the sky today, the missions will still be achieved with other tools. Drones haven’t been around that long. They have not replaced any ability, only supplemented said abilities. The only people that will be hurt are...

As veteran who held a secret clearance, seeing actual classified material, I’m curious. How does a bad actor gain critical national security information from law enforcement, fire, SAR, farming, utilities, powerline inspection, my cell tower, construction site, roof, and facade inspection...

Yes you can look and see the firmware is up to date. But you’ll also see that you can refresh it, basically reload the safe firmware. Try that. It will not hurt anything.

I would try refreshing the firmware in DJI Assistant 2.

I’ve bought hundreds of drone parts from Ali Express. Free returns are very easy. I buy from Amazon “local” if available. Those shipping times on Amazon that are 2-4 weeks, are just people buying from Ali, jacking up the price, and reselling. Sometimes I’ll get Ali Packaged parts from Amazon...

Wait What? People are interested in that toy?

Maybe you should post in the skydio forums, not the Mavic forums. All the likes in the comments and all the missing likes should be a big clue. May skydio crash and burn. Corrupt unethical trash they are.

DJI warranties all their batteries to 200 cycles. After the 200th charge, you will be notified by your drone to replace the battery. I currently have 4 batteries over 200 charges. One of them is at 237. Monitor the cell health make sure they are all close. If it swells stop using it.

This is actually a screen shot of the video. Can’t upload a video to this site.

I’ve bought hundreds of drone parts from Ali Express and have only had like 2 bad experiences but it was the American shipper who lost it in the states. So technically, I have had zero bad experiences. Returns are easy. Shipping time of 2-3 weeks is the worst part. https://a.aliexpress.com/_mr92S5J

I don’t use AirData.

The reference I provided, they only ship OEM. Beware of cheap aftermarket clones. I and one of my clients had experiences with cheap aftermarket props shedding in flight. I was shocked my M3E came home missing one prop. Looked like it just lost WWIII but survived. Scary. My drones life flashed...

If the shipping wait time on Amazon is more than 3 days, in this case I’m guessing it is 3 weeks, this is just a reseller buying from Ali Express, cranking up the cost to make a profit. Go direct to Ali yourself and spend less if you are ok with waiting 3 weeks. I’ve ordered hundreds of drone...

I decided to try the Anzo Raptor battery for my DJI Mavic 3E. After all, it is (mostly) the same part number and significantly less expensive. It came in a box that said Mavic 3 with no D, J, or I letters anywhere on it nor on the battery itself. A little skeptical, I decided to test it...