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    Shipping to Belgium

    Speaking as a Belgian citizen, we host the hq's of EU and NATO, and have had our share of terrorism and major drug smuggling. If your custom declaration is unreliable about the real value of merchandise, there might be other things to worry about? So, hurray for our custom's officers doing their...
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    Smart Controller loses contact - looking for a RC

    My Smart Controller started misbehaving a few months ago: contact lost (even when well within range), green connection light turns red, luckily the RTH kicks in and I managed to retrieve the Mavic 2 pro each time. I borrowed a friend's standard RC with my phone and it keeps linking, connecting...
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    Mavic2Pro stays disconnected from smart controller

    Had a scare yesterday, Mavic 2 Pro disconnected from my smart controller mid-flight without any warning at a distance of 100 meters from origin. Red light on the controller. Restarted the controller several times but no connect. Luckily it returned home and I hand-caught it on a ladder whilst it...
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    Naïve question - WiFi is only LOS and satellites are for GPS, right?

    Re: orientation of antennas. 'Pointing towards the drone' is misleading. These antennas transmit and receive with the FLAT side, not with the points. So the right position is almost always to have them pointing vertically, towards the ground or the sky, whilst standing facing of the drone...
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    DRONE DISCONNECTS / LOSES SIGNAL WITHIN VIEW OF PILOT, THEN SPLASHES INTO 120meter DEEP ALPINE LAKE...

    Sorry about your loss. I had a similar incident recently. Mavic 2 Pro, Smart Controller. Well within range but no visual, all of a sudden the screen goes B&W of the last picture. The app had crashed, but the connection LED was still green (which is something I will now always look at for...
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    "I'M IN MY YARD!" Officer's detain drone pilot

    As Obelix would say "ils sont fous ces Americains"
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    HMS Prince of Wales Leaves Liverpool

    Lucky they didn't take you for target practice of their Phalanx Close-In Weapons System ! :)
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    Go4 crash on SC leads to disconnect; happy ending

    I have a 128 Gb card in there, see below. There seems to be an issue inside the Internal shared storage of the SC. Some applications apparently need to have their files there and not on the (removable) SD card. I poked around a bit and could free up some space (cached jpg and mp4 mostly) but...
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    Go4 crash on SC leads to disconnect; happy ending

    Currently in Africa, near the Indian Ocean. Yesterday my Mavic 2 Pro suddenly lost contact with my SmartController. It was well within range, no obstacles or warning signs of a disconnect. Suddenly the drone is no longer there on the screen, the visual goes to BW... The RTH does not kick in, it...
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    upcoming jamming activity

    DroneWaffe not amused. 'Verdammt noch mal', we will have to postpone our second Battle of Britain, says F.K.M.B. (FliegendeKleineMashinenBrigade) Commander H. Goering.
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    Live feed output to multiple sources

    There is a live streaming option in DJI Go4 to facebook and the like. Haven't explored it.
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    Max power issue error message

    If it's related to a nose-down issue, I'm sure the techs at Boeing have just the software patch for it !
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    Mavic 2 model confusion

    Answering your questions about the Mavic 2 models: The M2Pro and M2Zoom are the same drone, only the camera is different (a Hasselblad with nice specs for the Pro and a more classic but zoom camera for the Zoom). For both the main software is the DJI Go 4. For both the SC is available in a...
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    Wake me up when it's OK to upgrade my Smart Controller !

    I have followed the forum threads on the SC firmware upgrade (6th and 11th January 2020), and refrained from upgrading till it's safe. This is standard procedure in large software installations: you wait till the Seattle firm has worked out the bugs, which is usually by the time they release the...
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    US May Ground Civilian Drone Fleet Over China Spy Fears

    Do we truly believe that China c. s. are the only governments that force their communication companies to let them in on encrypted dataflows? The pot and the kettle...