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  1. ScubaBob

    The wind and your Drone. Don't make this mistake!

    I am a scuba instructor. We always teach students that when you dive you first head INTO the current for 1/3rd of your air, then you turn around and drift back with the current to your back for 1/3rd of your air (you actually use less) and then you ascend. If you go with the current at the...
  2. M

    New pilot questions: wind stability and gpsHealth

    Hey everyone, I‘m the proud owner of a new DJI Mavic Pro. I‘ve taken it on a few test flights and I'm still learning the in an outs of this jewel. I've read the manual forward and backwards, watched tutorial videos and lurked on several forums (this one seems to be the my favorite so far!). I...
  3. R

    Flying over water or in high wind?

    Check out how my mavic preformed in some high winds flight and way out over water . The shot with the volcano caldera was about 2 .5 to 3 miles out . It always surprises me how close things look because they are large but in reality they are far!
  4. Joely-Bird

    Windy

    Hi folks... I stumbled upon this website recently. As well as being lovely to look at, it's actually really useful too! Check out all the additional options on the left. You can look at a whole bunch of things and save your config. Windy as forecasted I believe there's also apps for...
  5. A

    Flight path simulator.

    Does software exist which can be used to simulate the flight path of a drone under certain conditions, ie wind interference, remaining battery charge, nav point, etc?
  6. B

    Camera angle changed in flight

    Yesterday was windy and I kept getting "High Winds" warnings. But the MP was handling it fine and I was getting cool shots. Right when the low battery alarm started beeping, the camera angle turned to the side. It was hard getting it to fly back to me, but I did. I changed the bat and it worked...
  7. CoolBreeze

    First video post

    First video post. Windy drone day, found sheltered location to fly and video. Using iMovie on iPad was unable to compress 4K to post directly? YouTube link attached... Ordered lens filters, APPRECIATE SUGGESTIONS on what filter to use in same location.
  8. bungrudi

    Measure (live, in-flight) wind speed

    Is there a way to show in-flight wind and gust speed? I know that healthydrone have this information, see below. I wonder if the information is only available as a flight log record, or is it available to (Android) application as a real-time data.
  9. M

    Almost lost Mavic in the wind!

    Last night I my wife looked out the window and commented on how beautiful the sky looked with the sunset, so I quickly took the mavic out to get some cool shots. The wind at ground level was strong, but nothing I haven't flown in before. I took it up to about 100-120 feet straight above my head...
  10. arciere

    Force landing in 7.7m/s wind?

    Started a mission to take some landscape picts and video with reasonable 3-4 m/s wind, that increased (5-6 m/s) after a short while. Nothing to worry about anyway. Roughly 11:30 minutes from takeoff got the message "Large Wind Velocity. Fly with caution". Some seconds later, while the MP was...
  11. D

    Interesting review and wind test

    For those like me who don't yet have a Mavic - this review - which includes a real life high wind test - is worth reading: DJI Mavic Pro In-Depth Review