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    Lost Mini 2 Voringfossen Norway

    Hope you recover it, any idea why it failed?
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    Mavic platinum pro replacement blades

    Thanks, appreciated. Off to find a supplier on the web, any recommendations? I am based over in UK.
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    Loss of Control in Flight - MAVIC PLATINUM PRO

    I was charged for a new replacement gimbal, I am not sure what you mean by MP and MPP? Thanks.
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    Mavic platinum pro replacement blades

    Hi, Recently discovered that DJI no longer provide replacement blades for the mavic platinum pro, can anyone recommend a good quality replacement and how often should the blades we changed? Any advice gratefully appreciated.
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    Loss of Control in Flight - MAVIC PLATINUM PRO

    Update for all who were helpful, the MAVIC was returned to be repaired and inspected, turns out that the gimbal was at fault and will be replaced under warranty. Interestingly the gimbal was a replacement after an earlier incident and was the first time I had flown the mavic since the repair...
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    Loss of Control in Flight - MAVIC PLATINUM PRO

    I have arranged to send the Mavic to be tested and repaired if required, be interesting to see the results.
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    Loss of Control in Flight - MAVIC PLATINUM PRO

    I have attached a copy of the MCDatFlightRecords to this posting. The initial change of direction is from the controller at return the drone to the initial take off and landing site. 11.09 seconds into the video the drone appears to judder 14.00 seconds the gimbal is a white out 14.07 rudder...
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    Loss of Control in Flight - MAVIC PLATINUM PRO

    Could this be wind related issue?
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    Loss of Control in Flight - MAVIC PLATINUM PRO

    Any help as to the cause would be greatly appreciated, one issue I noticed on the flight data was the rudder response delay being in orange. No idea, just suddenly happened.
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    Loss of Control in Flight - MAVIC PLATINUM PRO

    I agree with you on the above, very confused as to what happened and caused the issue. I fly regularly in the same area and have never experienced the issue before.
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    Loss of Control in Flight - MAVIC PLATINUM PRO

    No concrete under the tarmac to the best of my knowledge, as you thinking of steel bars under the concrete? The drone on take off was about 6 m from the concrete road surface.
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    Loss of Control in Flight - MAVIC PLATINUM PRO

    Absolutely no idea, just happened whilst watching the video feed.
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    Loss of Control in Flight - MAVIC PLATINUM PRO

    The launch surface us tarmac and the drone was not under this at any point. Video of the incident where you can see the drone move without input from the controller. https://youtu.be/jMl7rPK4mXA
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    Loss of Control in Flight - MAVIC PLATINUM PRO

    I launched from a tarmac surface, parking area outside a house, with no steel objects apart from cars parked there, never had any problems flying from the same location in the past. Yes launched facing east and parallel with the road, a concrete private farm track access. As a point of...
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    Loss of Control in Flight - MAVIC PLATINUM PRO

    None that I would see, all looked ok