Never too old to learn!

[OldGuy]

Went to my favourite hill this morning with the new Mini 3. Charged everything up as usual the night before except for the Tripltek tablet which was indicating 60+ % battery level. Thinking all would be ok I flew 2 batteries with the Mini 3 which was about 40 minutes total flight time then landed for the third battery. As I was landing a low battery warning came up on the Tripltek tablet. I shut the Mini 3 down and checked the Tripltek battery level. 1% was all that was left!! Never had this before. Normally the Tripltek battery lasts a long time. So can’t think why it dropped so suddenly with only approx 40 minutes of flight time? Of course I am going to fully charge it every time I go flying from now on! Lesson learnt!

 

[mavic3usa]

It's a super bright tablet that can sustain it's brightness so perhaps you can manually go ahead and turn down the screen brightness when the battery gets low to help save it?

 

[lensimages]

Went to my favourite hill this morning with the new Mini 3. Charged everything up as usual the night before except for the Tripltek tablet which was indicating 60+ % battery level. Thinking all would be ok I flew 2 batteries with the Mini 3 which was about 40 minutes total flight time then landed for the third battery. As I was landing a low battery warning came up on the Tripltek tablet. I shut the Mini 3 down and checked the Tripltek battery level. 1% was all that was left!! Never had this before. Normally the Tripltek battery lasts a long time. So can’t think why it dropped so suddenly with only approx 40 minutes of flight time? Of course I am going to fully charge it every time I go flying from now on! Lesson learnt!

Agree never too old to learn, went out with omm and my Mavic2Pro, on arrival at our flying destination I started to assemble my iPad holder only to realise that I have left my iPad home, never mind will use my iPhone only to find that I have also left my phone at home. Thank you omm for the loan of your ipad whilst you were flying your mini 3 pro with screen, think I need a pre leaving home flight list, am only going on 82, is my memory failing, cheers Len

 

[MA2 317]

Thank you omm for the loan of your ipad

I assume Old Man Mavic?

Awesome guy here on the Forums.

 

[MA2 317]

Charged everything up as usual the night before except for the Tripltek tablet which was indicating 60+ % battery level.

I have the original Tripltek 7 pro that works fine so far.

I too will leave the house with a partial charged Tripltek assuming all is well, but not down to 60%.

I'll keep an eye it.

Thanks for sharing the information.

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[PHZ]

Went to my favourite hill this morning with the new Mini 3. Charged everything up as usual the night before except for the Tripltek tablet which was indicating 60+ % battery level. Thinking all would be ok I flew 2 batteries with the Mini 3 which was about 40 minutes total flight time then landed for the third battery. As I was landing a low battery warning came up on the Tripltek tablet. I shut the Mini 3 down and checked the Tripltek battery level. 1% was all that was left!! Never had this before. Normally the Tripltek battery lasts a long time. So can’t think why it dropped so suddenly with only approx 40 minutes of flight time? Of course I am going to fully charge it every time I go flying from now on! Lesson learnt!

The battery in the RC N-1 is a beast, so don’t be afraid to set it to charge your tablet whilst using.

 

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I assume Old Man Mavic?

Awesome guy here on the Forums.

yes

 

[Flying Shroppie]

yes

I think its time for the formation of an "old flyers" club with the first item on the AGM to be the production of a fully functional reminder device which which activates as we leave home.
Next Tuesday I set off on a cruise on the Queen Elizabeth up the coast from Vancouver to Alaska, that's if I have survived the 9.5 hour flight from Heathrow. The big regret is the cruise company ban on the carriage of drones on board. I was hoping to catch footage of bears on the glacier and may be to get my drone to follow the husky towed sled.
Having flown in gliders, hot-air balloons. two seater light aircraft, hang gliders and military freighter aircraft it will be only my second flight in a commercial air liner (with a toilet - vital at my age, and on board catering).
All of this is my treat to myself to celebrate my 83rd . So may be next year I will be allowed to take the drone with me on the planned cruise down to South Georgia. (That's if I have managed to avoid the one way ride in the big black limo!).
Keep flying. Its the only way to go!

 

[Dale D]

Agree never too old to learn, went out with omm and my Mavic2Pro, on arrival at our flying destination I started to assemble my iPad holder only to realise that I have left my iPad home, never mind will use my iPhone only to find that I have also left my phone at home. Thank you omm for the loan of your ipad whilst you were flying your mini 3 pro with screen, think I need a pre leaving home flight list, am only going on 82, is my memory failing, cheers Len

It is happening to all of us!

 

[mereflyer]

I concur...

 

[GFields]

Thanks for sharing