Recent content by Tropdiver

Well there it is, emperical evidence. Thank you for sharing. I'm extremely impressed with the toughness of the material used in these blades, I tried to finish tearing a blade that got damaged and cracked, it's tough stuff.

I'm so very glad you got your drone back to nomal and he's in good health again. Your experience has confirmed what I have been concerned about all along. I'm on Ver: 1.03.1000 and intend to stay there. I've just heard too many bad things about DJI firmware upgrades turning your machine into...

It would seem obvious Jaysjob doesn't want to deface the Mavic by writing on it, and so, is thinking of writing the number on a blade. Great idea. And Thunderdrone's right, it only takes a minute to reapply the number. What no one has yet mentioned: does the solvent chemical in the "Sharpie"...

Im late to the game but heres my S2 story: bought a tab S2 at costco, SM-T813. (No Y on the number). Within 20 minutes of opening it I had Go4 app installed, tried to connect to RC and AC. Constant looping question box about making this the normal Usb action for this device. Once I got that...

Well, lesson learned. Set your RTH height much higher than you think necessary.

Hi Pieter, congrates on the new bird. You'll love it. In this order do this for your first time out: 1. Turn off the Cell portion of the phone(put in Airplane mode). Also turn off the WiFi. The only thing you want from the phone while flying is the screen and the phone's GPS. This is important I...

Flying cameras are absolutely an upgrade to a 26 ft selfie stick. Before affordable flying cams you had to get your "really cool" footage with a helo at about $1500 an hour. Looking at it from that point of view, a MavPro is very much an upgrade.

A couple thoughts on why people hate on droners: Hollywood and the News media have been successful at putting out a less than warm and fuzzy feeling surrounding the name "drone". One member said a lady asked him if he was the operator of one of those "killer drones". Every time the military...

I'm having a similar experience, I've owned 3 MavPros in 2 months. All for different reasons, they have failed in a short time. 1st one had camera issues, 2nd one had already been activated prior to me owning it. (DJI wouldn't tell me how long or where it was activated, just said I should return...

I don't have a Dropbox account, is there a chance I could email it to you? I looked at the Dat file in CsvView, nice job building that. It's really easy to get a handle on what's happening when it's graphed. Can I assume a gpshealth of 5 is good and a zero is bad? Couple times during the flight...

Hey Spy808. I just got a MavPro and the second flight it did similar to what you described above. It had simultaneous failure of compass and GPS with red warnings on the screen and all. Bird was VERY hard to bring to land and if you let off the sticks it would just slew off in some random...

Hi, I'm hoping to pick your informed brain for a minute or two: I just took a new Mavic Pro for a flight, first flight out of the box went well, tested the RTH function from 200 ft away, worked properly. Second flight I went higher and further, approx. 400 ft away and all went well. On return...

Remind me... aren't USA flyers now bound by law stating: 400 ft max AGL, Aircraft must be in line of sight, No operating from moving vehicle, No operations after dark, and maybe some other veery limiting rules. Takes most of the coolness out of the sport. Oh and manned aircraft in USA are to fly...

I'll be returning it to Amazon. To be fair, it's not Amazon's problem, it was "fulfilled" by a vendor for them. As a note: DJI Tech Sup told me if a unit is refurb'd it gets an -R at the end of the serial number. This one does not. Also seems its been on the shelf for awhile, the bird has...

Has anybody else had this experience: Purchased a new Mavic Pro fly more kit from Amazon. (This is my second Pro so I know how this is supposed to go...) I took it out for a spin last evening, fully expecting it to need activating first. To my surprise, it didn't request activation, AND the...