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    Lost Confidence on My Mavic 2 Pro

    Oh! Of course...I actually was thinking along the lines of extra battery to broadcast location after failure/crash etc...
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    Lost Confidence on My Mavic 2 Pro

    doh. thanks. it's a few posts prior.
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    Lost Confidence on My Mavic 2 Pro

    Oh! Of course...I actually was thinking along the lines of extra battery to broadcast location after failure/crash etc...
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    Lost Confidence on My Mavic 2 Pro

    Actually a brilliant frackin' idea! Really. Basic redundancy and safety. Wow...why is this NOT standard?
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    How do you judge the wind at 300 feet or 400 feet?

    All good info...wish I'd joined the forums sooner than I did! ? I lost my M2P due to a blowaway. Ground winds AND high clouds were still. Weather data from apps was showing light winds 4-10 mph. At (very high) altitude I experienced what I thought might have been a "flyaway" but was...
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    FAA Drone ID Proposal:

    Yep. If someone better at the actual math than myself worked it out, I'd be willing to wager that the number of actual accidents resulting in harm (both personal and property) would be statistically very low. Much lower than traffic accidents, bbq grill accidents, turkey frying burns...
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    Lost M2P. Please help me decipher log?

    Yeah...In hindsight, with everyone's help here on my log? I definitely flew it away. D*mn I hate losing that drone. Most likely would've been the keeper video I wanted too! It was a 4th repeat flight of that plan improving upon lesser videos I'd taken prior.
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    Lost M2P. Please help me decipher log?

    I know, right!? All those jokes I grew up with about Louisiana weather; unpredictability...changing minute to minute... I'd checked the weather...it was dead calm on the ground and the clouds were still. My luck...I found the only place in the sky with high winds. More even, I had to find...
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    Lost M2P. Please help me decipher log?

    Thanks BudWalker! Yeah...I was definitely flying in the wind. I saw it too in the graphs of the data...it explains the reason it was flying backwards! lol! Like I wrote before...this was a really good, expensive teaching moment. Thanks again for helping break down the log!
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    Lost M2P. Please help me decipher log?

    Thank you SO MUCH for the very detailed breakdown and unnecessary editorial additions. Hope you enjoyed letting me know how much you know. In spite of your critique of my personal drone flying experience, I do actually appreciate the snippets of useful info you sent along. Have a great day!
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    Lost M2P. Please help me decipher log?

    aHA! That does explain why it seemed to fly away from me. It DID lose signal for a long time prior to the appearance of what I was thinking was a "flyaway". This was a very good, expensive lesson. LOL! I'm shopping now for my replacement drone...
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    Lost M2P. Please help me decipher log?

    Thanks Prismatic...yeah, I think I'm gonna pull the trigger on the low-end upgrade. 'Specially now with you reinforcing the actual usefulness about something I really had not thought about; the battery conditions. Do you use an independent GPS "puck" on your drones? I was thinking it would've...
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    Lost M2P. Please help me decipher log?

    Hi, Long time listener, first time caller. ;):rolleyes: I was doing a night videography flight and I think I may have experienced a “flyaway”? Background and situation: I’m a recreational flyer only. VERY familiar location flying from the home where I grew up in a semi-rural area. Had flown...