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    Lost Mavic Air - Loch Awe - Scotland

    From now on, I am going to check EVERYTHING after every update, maybe I did inadvertently switch it to auto-land, lesson learned this end.
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    Lost Mavic Air - Loch Awe - Scotland

    I did have sight of it until the flight went to sh@t, stress panic and sweat with me trying to regain comms . With the low cloud to the north, the drone was visible before it "dropped", but once i looked back up from my controller I was unable to locate it again, lost against the backdrop of the...
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    Lost Mavic Air - Loch Awe - Scotland

    Thanks for reviewing that, and I was puzzled as to why the RTH failed (tested it twice previously) and assumed it was still set to RTH, only thing I did the night before was to update the firmware, so I must have inadvertently changed it... but only thing I did change was the RTH height as...
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    Lost Mavic Air - Loch Awe - Scotland

    Have extracted the .txt file from my iphone of the last flight with the MA, hopefully someone can pinpoint where i went wrong on this one so i dont make the same mistake
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    Lost Mavic Air - Loch Awe - Scotland

    Yes, northern end of the loch, the 4 small islands south of Ardanaiseig I was getting footage of the are for one of the girls back in our US office, she had been working on her family tree, and this one one of the areas of interest for her. Thankfully I had downloaded all the footage from...
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    Lost Mavic Air - Loch Awe - Scotland

    Thanks for the reply and instructions. Will get these files off my phone and uploaded to see where I went wrong. Thanks
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    Lost Mavic Air - Loch Awe - Scotland

    Onyx Mavic Air with silver racing stripes lost over Loch Awe - Scotland FAA registration FA3L7N4XC9 MA was above one of the 4 Crannogs (islands) before had communication error, pressed RTH but drone went into auto land mode, so suspect its probably in the water battery was over 70% when lost...
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    How to tell if your Mav Air is a FCC or CE model

    Msinger Thanks for the info, good to know, thought i'd have to buy a UK controller to meet the regulations Thanks again Ricey
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    How to tell if your Mav Air is a FCC or CE model

    I purchased my Mav Air when I was over in the US, and I am now about to head back to the UK. How can I tell if its the FCC version, and what will happen when I get back to the UK, will it limit its range to meet the CE requirements automatically when flown back home or when system updates? New...