Recent content by NerdGoingOutside

Drone received! I've been itching to get my hands on it all week, but work hours prevented me from getting to the post office. This morning I went down and retrieved it, lovingly wrapped for its journey by @joshzdad. All in all, she held up pretty well after that 50 mph impact and a long...

@zeeeegerman no not yet. @joshzdad is going to ship it to me because he is a Cool Dude, then I'll open a DJI Care Refresh case with DJI.

Holy crap, I am shocked. @joshzdad is a saint. Four hours of grid searching on that terrain for a stranger?! Amazing. Between that and all the other support and knowledge folks on the forum have provided, especially @sar104 's expertise, I am super impressed. Dude sent me pictures of the thing...

Yeah I've had that happen before, but always gotten an interference warning in the app. Had no idea there could be interference bad enough to cause this kind of uncontrolled flight but not bad enough to trigger an alert. If it happens that often I'm surprised there isn't a solution.

This is very interesting sar104, thank you. I, too, had assumed I'd be warned of any problematic magnetic interference by the app - I've had that happen before - so I didn't worry about that without a warning. Thinking back, the location is on pavement near an old mine site, so there could be...

So, last September I was in northern Idaho with my brand new Mavic 2 Pro. At the time it has <5 houts of flight time. I was down in the bottom of a canyon with no wind to speak of, and when I took off I had trouble getting a GPS signal. I hovered for a moment, and after a minute or so I got a...