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    RDNelson reacted to Meta4's post in the thread Mavic Air 2 climbing terrain with Like Like.
    The height you see on the screen is the height relative to your launch point. The drone has no way to tell how high it is above the terrain below, so you have to estinate that. The drone has two height limits. One is a hardwired maximum height...
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    RDNelson reacted to Yorkshire_Pud's post in the thread Mavic Air 2 climbing terrain with Like Like.
    No there is not, you carry what adjustment there is in your head. BTW in the USA you are probably flying illegally if you fly off the top of a 400ft+cliff, where cliff means a vertical face, and out beyond the cliff face into open air but...
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    RDNelson reacted to mavic3usa's post in the thread Mavic Air 2 climbing terrain with Like Like.
    Because of the misunderstand with AGL, many people do this all the time; you can see it in their YT videos. Find the highest point in the city (ground or building) to launch from and then simply fly off into the wild blue yonder for a mile or...
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    RDNelson reacted to GadgetGuy's post in the thread Mavic Air 2 climbing terrain with Like Like.
    Under the more recent FW's, DJI now offers a 1000m hardwired maximum height, as long as you are over 50km from the nearest airport. It's more annoying than beneficial, because it creates a new gray 500m altitude zone everywhere else, which used...
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    RDNelson reacted to bmwbob's post in the thread Mavic Air 2 climbing terrain with Like Like.
    I take my Air 2 to 1600 feet climbing an adjacent mountain where the factory limit stops it.
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