thanks man. Where do you live are you in a windy city too? I am in Corpus the 8 windiest city in America. Alot of people think chicago is the windiest but its not because of natural wind it's because of blowhards like Rahm Emanuel.. What a moron that dude is.
Is there an advanced setting where you can eliminate high wind warnings?
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True that; surface friction causes winds to moderate. At 100' and above it's much stronger.
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If you dont like the warnings then use a different app like litchi etc.
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I was thinking the same thing. I flew a short mission on Litchi last weekend with moderate winds. All the while wondering if my bird was coming back. You really have to watch the numbers.
Rather than have a warning (even with a threshold setting) why can't we just get a reading on the controller. Let the pilot decide if/when it's too risky. It wouldn't even have to be wind speed, just some reading on how hard Mavic is working to maintain course/position. It's probably already available in the bird or we wouldn't be seeing the warning.
Is it good? This is the first time I have heard of it. I will check it out thanks.
I agree I'd like to set it on or off. Mine will come on with a 8mph wind and will flash on and off the entire flight. Annoying as hell to keep swiping away. I like the idea of warning me of winds over a certain threshold but when I'm standing there and it's not windy and the healthy drone apps tells me it really wasn't that windy up 100 feet it's an annoyance. Wish I could set it for it hit 20mph now trigger. Like others have said, I check the weather beforehand and know what I'll be getting into.
:thumbs: this thread has been funny. First half of it people wanted the stupid wind warnings and the second half people didn't
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Okay. I flew this morning (6:30am) with practically zero wind. It was a very clear and a very calm morning with wind forecast of 4-5mph....yet...hovering at 40-50ft AGL, approx. 200ft away, I got the infamous High Wind Warning. It came up several times. Definitely not correct!
I get the ("high wind warning RTH") warning if there's just a breeze, it is annoying! I flies just fine, I don't have to put it in sport mode to get it home, the wind isn't strong enough to need that. I think hey need to dial it down a bit. However, as a pilot I do realize that wind speed 100 feet off the ground can be substantially stronger than that on the ground, so in some instances that may be the case.
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I had a feeling someone that was not here knew better than I did that it was really windy 40-50ft AGL. It's funny how the trees with their leaves that are 50+ feet tall did not move at all. Our parking structure is higher than the height at which the Mavic was at and you're telling me that I don't know anything about how windy should feel like. Seriously??? I totally know that winds are not the same at higher elevations than at ground level. 
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That's why I like UAV forecast app you can set it to see windspeed at different altitudes.
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I had a feeling someone that was not here knew better than I did that it was really windy 40-50ft AGL. It's funny how the trees with their leaves that are 50+ feet tall did not move at all. Our parking structure is higher than the height at which the Mavic was at and you're telling me that I don't know anything about how windy should feel like. Seriously??? I totally know that winds are not the same at higher elevations than at ground level.
Geez, all I said was that sometimes it DOES blow harder above the ground, I was speaking for my own experiences, not yours. I DID confirm that I too, get the high wind warning when there appears to be very little wind, sorry if I offended you or came across as implying something negative about your experience or knowledge level.
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Would be great to have a visual representation of the wind vector, So we could measure the wind strength.
Most of the time people ignore this warning as the wind is not really that hard. But I wonder how many Mavic have crashed due to a really high gust of wind that was ignored.
Most of the time people ignore this warning as the wind is not really that hard. But I wonder how many Mavic have crashed due to a really high gust of wind that was ignored.
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I would find the warnings a lot more useful if they notice came with an estimate of the current wind speed. It totally could do this in GPS mode because it knows how much it is fighting to hold position. Including wind speed would definitely allow me to decide which warnings to disregard and which to heed.
I posted about this earlier. Even better would be a graph over time in the app. Am I seeing sporadic gusts or sustained speeds? Is it too windy at this altitude and should I fly at another altitude? My thought is, give the info to the pilot and let him/her make the decision. Sporadic pop ups are not helpful, IMO
The wind warning should go away after a second or two. Or perhaps a Majel Barrett computer voice warning me of high winds...who could object to that?
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