First month with the Air

[Jameslavis]

First drone and first month down. In case anyone new reads, here’s some info that helped me.

• Use a pre-flight checklist
• Before take off, check all sensors and calibration. Keeps mind at ease to reduce chance of fly aways
• Don’t fly in high winds. Again keeping it safe.
• Pay attention to in flight info watch for interference.
• Buy a landing pad and nd filters
• Use manual camera modes
• Use stick config 3 if you are a gamer

No issues and a lot of reading later. Did my first long flight in -10 weather across a lake. 5300m or so.

 

[Hestia]

First drone and first month down. In case anyone new reads, here’s some info that helped me.

• Use stick config 3 if you are a gamer

No issues and a lot of reading later. Did my first long flight in -10 weather across a lake. 5300m or so.

Thanks for the tips! As a new mavic air owner and long time gamer, I have to admit that flying the drone is somewhat awkward on stick mode 2 ahahah

I will try mode 3 on my next fly

 

[Jameslavis]

It’s night and day. Fps gaming ruins you with a controller as left stick is always movement and right being vision. Once I switched over it was instantly different.

 

[Coskier]

Sample pre-flight checklist?

 

[Jameslavis]

You’ll see more extensive ones but here’s a basic one I use

• Take off gimbal protector
• Turn on controller, Mavic then iPhone in that order
• Inspect props and basic appearance of the drone
• In the app it’ll do your firmware checks
• I check for errors such compass calibration
• I also check the interference and signals.
• I don’t fly high winds typically.

That’s my start

 

[galfridus]

Also, if you are flying near obstacles, KEEP LINE OF SIGHT. It's very tempting to fly via the screen and very easy to get into trouble.

 

[djiboi]

UAV Forecast should be on everyone's pre flight check list

 

[Jameslavis]

I also keep very aware of my drone’s behaviour. IF the feed gets choppy, warning hits or just get a vibe, I turn that expensive number back to a space where it was clear.