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Hi everyone, just received the Mavic last week after several loooong months wait. DJI finally got back to work after Chinese New Year . It has definitely been worth the wait. This is my 2nd drone. I grabbed a Hubsan H502e mainly as a cheap trainer. Kind of a mistake, as the brushed motors don't last, you'll just throw money at it in parts. Fun, at a price.
But, back to the Mavic! So far, I've logged 3 flight sessions. The maiden voyage was fantastic. 4k video was rich and immersive, gimbal and camera rock-steady even with some buffeting winds, you don't see it at ALL. Super smooth, started out in Beginner, then felt confident enough to venture away a bit. Went out 1/2 mile or so, FPV is great, got some great footage and practiced RTH a few times. All works as advertised.
Next 2 flights, I had problems with garbled, streaky FPV feed, image breakup on my phone. Using the provided short USB C cable. Tried changing video channel freq settings to no avail. WTF is going on? None of this the first time! You could barely see what was happening to figure out how to fly by the video signal. DJI Go4 showed great signal, never disconnected or dropped the signal, just total crap, laggy, glitchy smeared video. I was not happy. Actual footage saved to microSD card shows none of this mess, just the FPV is hosed.
I chatted with a DJI rep tonight, he had me re-link the controller to the Mavic. This seems like it may have fixed it, walked around the house with it and looked OK, but will try flying it again tomorrow. Also, I switched to using the center USB port instead of the side cable. Others have found this solves problems like this. Makes you crazy when stuff like this happens!
Anyway, a lot to be learned and a great machine to take you to fantastic places! I'll have to get some clips up soon after I grind through rendering some 4k scenes.
But, back to the Mavic! So far, I've logged 3 flight sessions. The maiden voyage was fantastic. 4k video was rich and immersive, gimbal and camera rock-steady even with some buffeting winds, you don't see it at ALL. Super smooth, started out in Beginner, then felt confident enough to venture away a bit. Went out 1/2 mile or so, FPV is great, got some great footage and practiced RTH a few times. All works as advertised.
Next 2 flights, I had problems with garbled, streaky FPV feed, image breakup on my phone. Using the provided short USB C cable. Tried changing video channel freq settings to no avail. WTF is going on? None of this the first time! You could barely see what was happening to figure out how to fly by the video signal. DJI Go4 showed great signal, never disconnected or dropped the signal, just total crap, laggy, glitchy smeared video. I was not happy. Actual footage saved to microSD card shows none of this mess, just the FPV is hosed.
I chatted with a DJI rep tonight, he had me re-link the controller to the Mavic. This seems like it may have fixed it, walked around the house with it and looked OK, but will try flying it again tomorrow. Also, I switched to using the center USB port instead of the side cable. Others have found this solves problems like this. Makes you crazy when stuff like this happens!
Anyway, a lot to be learned and a great machine to take you to fantastic places! I'll have to get some clips up soon after I grind through rendering some 4k scenes.