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Welcome, from Morganton GA.

Be careful! Flying through the woods is the biggest challenge for the obstacle avoidance sensors. They don't easily recognize power lines or thin branches.

I've got State Farm, which has pretty good reviews. My agent sez a minimum amount of coverage is required in my state, so it covers my M2P and Nikon. Prices vary quite a bit; I'm paying about $75./yr, so do your homework.

What a beautiful area in which to fly a drone! Formerly of Honeoye Falls, I could hardly wait to "escape" NY when I retired to the north GA mountains a coupla years ago

Although I always maintain visual contact, determination of the A/C's "attitude, altitude, and direction of flight" from visual observation of a tiny dot in the sky is a pipe dream, unless it's moving (duh!), and then I still confirm with the camera view.

There are no "clicks" in hyperlapse or still photos. In the digital world, the sensor is sampled electronically, so you're not gonna wear out the electronics. And BTW, videos run at 30 "clicks" per second... for comparison. Not to worry

If you were in manual exposure, try Auto when flying in those (bright, sunny, snowy) conditions. You'll just need to add some (+EV) bias otherwise the metering system will want to over compensate for what should actually look bright, making the snow look gray.

correct, you're not going to get much color with a landscape like that. Nice video and audio, though!

Wow, what a beautiful setting in which to exercise the QuickShots!! And no, Asteroid does not acquire any images on the descent, you may have misunderstood that one.

Gotcha! It's called aliasing... a normal effect when sampling a high frequency continuous motion with discrete samples (of insufficient frequency). Not to worry, it's just an illusion. It can be quite confusing when seeing it for the first time :-)

Yes I know Tank Town, I live 2 miles north of there. Maybe you can look me up on one of your visits!

Understood. I was basically doing "touch and go" for practice and getting familiar with controls, so it was always nearby.

Welcome! Where in GA? I'm in Morganton, just outside of Blue Ridge.

Uh oh! I tried recalibrating the vision sensors and the first thing I saw was that there was no signal/image coming from the fwd right sensor... that screen was black! Would someone please guide me on how to begin a chat with DJI support? This is very disappointing; it's a new unit and I'm...

That's a Triple-7! It was one of my "cockpit incursions", in which I'd visit the flight deck with my camera, before they close the door (pilots like to show off!). Sometimes they even offer me their seat for a photo op, like in this case. I wasn't quite happy with the lighting of the shot so I...