Recent content by S Hale

Your post was from June : Did you ever receive help/advice ? Stephen

My experience is to tack. Just like sailing a boat. You can’t sail directly into the wind because the sail ‘luffs’. No power on the sail. I’ve found bearing off 20 to 40 degrees and then turning 90 degrees will let you to make progress into a strong wind. Also lowering altitude can sometimes...

Byfield, MA Have had the little Mavic out in very gusty winds this week. Winds at 20-25 with 40 MPH gusts. Mavic was really rock solid. However definitely needs the Sport mode to make any real progress into the wind. A great suggestion mentioned in this forum is to fly on a full battery...

JP here ... Testing out the little bird. Really really impressive ! In heavy winds 20-25 mph; pretty darn stable. Video is 'wow' ... so smooth.