I am having problems with calibrating my MavicAir.

Wave Oglesby · Aug 26, 2019

I was flying my MavivAir this weekend and the calibration went perfect on the first battery. I then switched to battery number 2 and the program ask me to calibrate again. I could not get it to calibrate. Did the drone dance moved all around got away from the building. Got frustrated and quit. Does anyone have a better way to do this?

silverdragon · Aug 26, 2019

Just asking, do you get the red triangle at startup saying a compass cal is needed?

Deleted member 94047 · Aug 26, 2019

Wave Oglesby said:
I was flying my MavivAir this weekend and the calibration went perfect on the first battery. I then switched to battery number 2 and the program ask me to calibrate again. I could not get it to calibrate. Did the drone dance moved all around got away from the building. Got frustrated and quit. Does anyone have a better way to do this?

Not sure if this will help but if my MA asks me to recalibrate the compass, I follow these steps.
1. Remove all things metallic that I may have on myself including coins and watch. Turn off AC, turn off RC, move to a different spot (usually a few meters away), restart everything and see if the compass error goes away.

2. If step one above doesn't solve the issue, I start the compass recalibration. Again, I make sure there is nothing metallic on my person, enter the recalibration menu, hold the AC with one hand and the RC on the other with both arms outstretched forming a near 180 degree line. I go through the two recalibration steps, rotating myself as directed (the app does give you directions as to which way to rotate).

And that is it. I have never had a compass recalibration fail. How are you doing yours?

Wave Oglesby · Aug 26, 2019

silverdragon said:
Just asking, do you get the red triangle at startup saying a compass cal is needed?

Yes

Wave Oglesby · Aug 26, 2019

Doppler said:
Not sure if this will help but if my MA asks me to recalibrate the compass, I follow these steps.
1. Remove all things metallic that I may have on myself including coins and watch. Turn off AC, turn off RC, move to a different spot (usually a few meters away), restart everything and see if the compass error goes away.

2. If step one above doesn't solve the issue, I start the compass recalibration. Again, I make sure there is nothing metallic on my person, enter the recalibration menu, hold the AC with one hand and the RC on the other with both arms outstretched forming a near 180 degree line. I go through the two recalibration steps, rotating myself as directed (the app does give you directions as to which way to rotate).

And that is it. I have never had a compass recalibration fail. How are you doing yours?

I do the drone dance with the AC in one hand and the RC in the other.One addition is that I od get the green light on the back a solid green after the first rotation but the straight up one was the one that was failing. Seems like DJI could just publish some simple directions to get this done. I did read earlier today that you need to point the drone with the camera pointing down not up.I also can't say that I turn the direction the app says to turn. Can't say I did this but will try this coming weekend.