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    Swollen Battery Unsafe Forever?

    Swollen = No use. The much increased risk of failure during flight and fire during charging just isn't worth it.
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    Air 2s purchased - should I wait for the CE marked next drone?

    The Air 2s is a beautiful machine, but it will depend on how much of a problem it will be for you to fly in the A3 subcategory, which is where it will end up starting 1 January 2023. I do really hope the Mavic 3 Pro will be C classed. It would end up being a C1 drone if they can get the weight...
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    2 Zoom Vertical ascent to 2243 meters

    At 3:49 or so there is a helicopter or gyrocopter of some sort
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    The most battery efficient way to climb and decend?

    Hovering or climbing and descending in a hover is very energy inefficient. The reason for this is that that hovering keeps the props in "dirty" turbulent air. Flying forward improved the efficiency of the props. Because of that the most efficient way is to climb and descend in directional...
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    Capturing a shot at 400m directly overhead

    The FAA does however not have any authority in Singapore.
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    My DJI Mini 2 has survived a treewater ****

    Couldn't see the video unfortunately. It's private. Something to consider is that corrosion doesn't happen instantly. The drone may work now, but corrosion could build over time making it fail weeks or months later. It would be great to have a bunch of de-ionized water for situations like this...
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    Anybody excited for Air 2S?

    I just talked to the DJI support and it does not have a CE class identification. They say the industry specification isn't ready yet, and I have heard elsewhere that EASA isn't done with the specification. I guess the Mini 2 is the only option for me right now but it doesn't have a good enough...
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    Anybody excited for Air 2S?

    The FPV isn't. The rules have been active here for a couple of months now and still no C classed drones. I heard a rumor that EASA doesn't have the certification process ready yet and that they will this summer but I don't know if there's any truth to that. Ideally all drones released last year...
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    Anybody excited for Air 2S?

    If it's classified for the new EU rules I'm excited. Otherwise it's yet another drone not worth paying attention too. I have a Mini 2 on order because it's the only legal option for what I need it for. If the Air 2S is a C1 drone it's probably a better option given how bad the still photos from...
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    MAVIC 3 Pro

    Welcome to the forum! We Europeans need some C classed drones that can be legally flown under the new rules as of January 1st 2020 without a ton of restrictions. New drones that qualify would ideally be out by then or those of us who have drone business may run into issues. I'm glad the...
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    Swelling batteries

    It is a lot more cumbersome, but it does make the batteries last much longer. The way you did it the batteries spent most of their time at 100%, which isn't ideal at all. I can add that when I fly mine down to 25% it takes about 14 minutes to charge them back up to 45-50%. It's hard to know...
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    New Litchi user, three issues

    I am not. I'm not interested in paying for a handbook for something that should be obvious or at least easy to figure out. The second one at a first glance looks like the same information that is available on the Litchi website in the user guide section. It doesn't mention anything about the...
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    Swelling batteries

    I would start by not flying them down so low. Lithium batteries do not really like to be below 20%. I never fly mine below 20% and I usually land at 25%. This also gives me a good margin in case the battery gauge is not reading the correct state of charge. This can especially be a factor in hot...
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    New Litchi user, three issues

    That's too bad. I had really high hopes for Litchi but so far it hasn't lived up to them unfortunately. It's great for fullt automated flights, much better than DJI GO. I just wish semi manual flights worked better. I've contacted litchi about the yaw sensitivity glitch, hopefully they will...
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    New Litchi user, three issues

    I can move and scale the actual map in full screen, but I can't resize the map window in the lower right corner. That is what I want to do. Maybe I wasn't clear enough about that. The window is covering too much of the frame. About 1/10 of the frame. I'd like it to be about half as big. I need...