Recent content by OldLeatherneck

Hello and welcome, bldine -- The first piece of advice I would give a new person is, watch your altitude (always go HIGHER than you think) and get used to the controller climb/descend stick movement. Meaning, and I say this as a former light plane pilot who was frustrated by the Mavic controls...

Maddog, Hello from Virginia. It may seem like an obvious thing but the camera video on/off deserves special attention, simply because a new guy is going to be busy watching all the other things on the controller. It's quite easy to not notice that either you have the video running when you...

Hello newasusi, My condolences for losing your drone. If it's any consolation, many of us new drone pilots have crashed our drones doing exactly the same thing you did, although for us it's usually trees or houses. In my case, my experience as a light plane pilot ingrained in me that when you...

Welcome aboard! By now you've already seen what sensation hi-def shots your drone takes. My advice for a new guy is to be mindful of the video/photo selector button; while trying to fiddle with other controls and software options I often neglected to see that video was running when I didn't...

Hello, fellow Air heads -- looking forward to learning from you all and offering up my own lessons on what not to do with your Mavic Air. I'll start with that profile tracking feature. You know when the YouTube videos caution us that there are no side sensors? Lamp posts are an excellent...