New Member of the family

akdrone · Friday at 1:53 AM

welcome the new member of the family. Just opened the box a few hours ago.

GadgetGuy · Friday at 2:32 AM

Mine arrived this afternoon as well.

Was your Adorama box packaging as bad as mine?

DoomMeister · Friday at 5:40 AM

Probably repackaged at Customs.

GadgetGuy · Friday at 5:57 AM

DoomMeister said:
Probably repackaged at Customs.

This was shipped directly from Adorama's warehouse in TN, with Adorama tape and Adorama packing pillows, so it would have no reason to go through Customs between TN and CA. Any Customs repackaging would have taken place on it before Adorama shipped it to me, during mass shipping from DJI Canada of a plethora of Creator Combos to Adorama. DJI box inside was still factory sealed.

florjankosir · Friday at 7:26 AM

I'm very happy for you. Enjoy.
I already am and I will be. All the notes on the cardboard etc. are already irrelevant. The only thing that bothers me will be the input in a new laptop, graphics card or just a player that will play H.265 6K 60FPS smoothly like for M3P, where we can encode with H.264.
Very happy!!!

Dale D · Friday at 8:28 AM

akdrone said:
welcome the new member of the family. Just opened the box a few hours ago. View attachment 183294

Wow Bud- 9 drones!!! I have two and don't have time for more than one.

TheGroove · Friday at 8:36 AM

Congratulations.

Mine is still sitting in customs in a warehouse in Louisville, KY where it's been since the 13th. DJI support has stopped responding to my requests so short of spending another $4500 to attempt to buy a different one I'm just hanging out to dry.

GadgetGuy · Friday at 9:04 AM

TheGroove said:
Congratulations.

Mine is still sitting in customs in a warehouse in Louisville, KY where it's been since the 13th. DJI support has stopped responding to my requests so short of spending another $4500 to attempt to buy a different one I'm just hanging out to dry.

Where did you order yours from? Was this a Mavic 4 Pro?

akdrone · Friday at 9:11 AM

GadgetGuy said:
Mine arrived this afternoon as well.

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Was your Adorama box packaging as bad as mine?

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No..mine was in good shape with bubble wrap all around it and the box itself (outer) was also in good shape.

TheGroove · Friday at 9:13 AM

GadgetGuy said:
Where did you order yours from? Was this a Mavic 4 Pro?

Yes, it came from DJI out of Canada to the US.

akdrone · Friday at 9:22 AM

Dale D said:
Wow Bud- 9 drones!!! I have two and don't have time for more than one.

My wife asked how many I've flown in the last two months. The answer was 5 of them. I fly my old Avata2 in dicey situations where I'm a bit worried I might kill it. Same with my older Mav3 but now I may sell the Mav 3 and use my Mav3 Pro for "dicey situations" which could be flying in 40mph wind or snowy conditions or something like that. I did some flying through kids playground toys and used the older Avata for that since I was trying to move through it as quickly as possible. The only drone I really don't use much at all anymore is the FPV and the old Phantom 2 Vision. I was shocked to see the batteries on the Phantom were still working and ¾ charged!! It's been a few years. I'm planning on resurrecting it and flying it just for fun. It has a range of something like 300m if I recall.

akdrone · Friday at 9:23 AM

TheGroove said:
Yes, it came from DJI out of Canada to the US.

My Mav4 was meant for the market in Ireland. Sold by Adorama.

akdrone · Friday at 11:44 AM

confirmed just now that these Mav 4’s we are getting that are meant for another market will at least have a basic 1 year warranty so that’s good.

CraigVMN · Saturday at 11:30 AM

akdrone said:
confirmed just now that these Mav 4’s we are getting that are meant for another market will at least have a basic 1 year warranty so that’s good.

To be clear, you live in Alaska, so the USA?

akdrone · Saturday at 12:05 PM

CraigVMN said:
To be clear, you live in Alaska, so the USA?

Yes... They will have a 1 year warranty but it's important to understand that is for a manufacturing defect and has nothing to do with the more common run it into a tree or drop and break the gimble kind of problem. The biggest worry I have is no the cost of repair it is simply getting the replacement back if I do damage it. People are sending drones off for repair and then having them stuck in customs forever. I'll pay for my mistake if I break it but will it ever/even get back to me? I advise State Farm or other insurance as a way to get your money back so you can then order another from Adorama or something ;0. The caveat on that is once you use insurance like State Farm to replace your drone i'm told they will cancel you immediately

...no..wait....

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bkushner · Monday at 2:43 AM

akdrone said:
My Mav4 was meant for the market in Ireland. Sold by Adorama.

Are you going to run into limitations with the European drones ???

bkushner · Monday at 2:45 AM

akdrone said:
Yes... They will have a 1 year warranty but it's important to understand that is for a manufacturing defect and has nothing to do with the more common run it into a tree or drop and break the gimble kind of problem. The biggest worry I have is no the cost of repair it is simply getting the replacement back if I do damage it. People are sending drones off for repair and then having them stuck in customs forever. I'll pay for my mistake if I break it but will it ever/even get back to me? I advise State Farm or other insurance as a way to get your money back so you can then order another from Adorama or something ;0. The caveat on that is once you use insurance like State Farm to replace your drone i'm told they will cancel you immediately ...no..wait.... .

I had State Farm policy on my drones before there was Care Refresh. I continued the policy's even after .. 10 years.. One time disaster hit, they paid $1100 and canceled my policy. Also they will not give me new policy a few years later. It's one and done with them.

akdrone · Monday at 11:03 AM

bkushner said:
Are you going to run into limitations with the European drones ???

I'm not finding any. I did a flight and got further away than I realized at one point (and came back a good bit) and I've seen no difference in terms of it being limited in any way. I use the long lens a -lot- and now the Dlog on all lenses just makes me giddy.

akdrone · Monday at 11:04 AM

bkushner said:
I had State Farm policy on my drones before there was Care Refresh. I continued the policy's even after .. 10 years.. One time disaster hit, they paid $1100 and canceled my policy. Also they will not give me new policy a few years later. It's one and done with them.

I've been warned about that so I will not bother using it unless I have a fly-away, theft or complete loss on the Mav4 Pro.

florjankosir · Tuesday at 2:24 AM

bkushner said:
I had State Farm policy on my drones before there was Care Refresh. I continued the policy's even after .. 10 years.. One time disaster hit, they paid $1100 and canceled my policy. Also they will not give me new policy a few years later. It's one and done with them.

This is true for several situations in insurance companies. And I add. After a year, I can re-enter the same insurance company and re-insure the thing (movable property, car, drone, etc.). How insurance companies work, as I understand it, is the same. Even though the damage is completely justified, they terminate the insurance and you have to choose another insurance company. After a year, I re-insure with this cheaper insurance company, where the insurance was terminated.