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So given the battery for my drone clearly lost connectivity for unknown reasons and then fell from the sky, would using gaffer's tape to tape the battery into the drone potentially prevent this from happening? Or is there some reason why this is a bad idea to do?

Good to know. I assume then that you're probably never that close to the house itself if you're always shooting at 70mm, and just hovering about 250-400 feet away for the whole shoot?

I think we are getting off track here and the point is being missed. I'm not asking about business expenses or tax write-offs or budgets. I'm asking about whether or not any of you have personally used the Mavic Air 3's 70mm lens specifically to shoot real estate photos and videos, and (more...

I'm curious, is it really worth it to spend the extra $200 to get the RC2 instead of using the RC-N2 controller for the Mavic Air 3 or Mini Pro 4? I've always been totally fine using the RC-N controller with an iPhone when shooting with a Mavic Air 2, so I'm just curious if an upgrade is worth...

Hi All, I'm torn between purchasing the Mavic Air 3 and the Mini 4 Pro for real estate photography/videography. I like that the Air 3 has the 70mm lens, but the Mini 4 Pro is significantly cheaper. My question is -- for those of you who shoot aerial real estate, have you found the 70mm lens to...

Is it at all possible that a flock of birds may have knocked the battery out? I do recall seeing a flock of birds in the sky near where I was shooting close to the time when I lost connectivity. Is this something that has been known to occur?

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Below are pictures of the kinds of places I often have to shoot aerial photos and videos of. This means shooting at 200-250 feet, 100-125 feet, and 40-70 feet. The video portion usually has a shot list that requires lateral moving arc shots around the property at each of those elevations, as...

I don't think I follow. Since there are clearly numerous reasons for why a drone can just fail and fall out of the sky that are not due to pilot error (i.e. parts just break/fail/disconnect on their own), that means the only way to prevent it from landing on someone's head is to not fly it where...

Until my drone fell out of the sky for mysterious reasons, I would have agreed with you. But now that it has, well... I can't say that rare occurrences only happen to other people.

So then in regards to real estate photography, would you suggest only shooting rural properties with expansive land and completely avoiding the suburbs and city?

Well, at this point, I'm a little terrified to get another drone. I do a lot of real estate photography work, which means sometimes being asked to fly in a city or in a crowded residential neighborhood, and it's pretty disconcerting to know that at any moment, the drone battery can just fail out...

Someone I ran into today said the same thing happened to them and they said it was because they were close to a lot of telephone poles/power lines. Could interference from that potentially cause the battery to short circuit? And if so, would that show up in the flight log?

To point 1 -- where exactly do I find the RECOVER & DETAILS for the batterySerial? In the txt file, the csv, the dat or the kml? To point 4 -- as a real estate photographer, it is very normal to capture the house at multiple altitudes and to also capture the neighborhood as a whole. I usually...

Okay, so, couple things about this. 1) I have three batteries -- and I absolutely do not know if the battery that was in the drone when I crashed into the tree branch was the same as the battery I flew when the drone fell out of the sky. It probably wasn't, actually. But even if it was the same...