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Unusual VERY IMPORTANT Safety Tips from a rookie Mavic Mini pilot

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Unusual VERY IMPORTANT Safety Tips from a rookie Mavic Mini pilot Okay, you probably know my story since you're here, so you know I learnt the hard way and I have couple of tips to share. In case you wonder... no, I haven't lost my drone in the wind but still better be prepared than caught by it. So I won't bother you with the traditional EMPTY notices like: the control sticks work inverted when the drone is facing you, do not smash into power lines (actually it's pretty easy... you don't even notice them) and so on... just don't tangle with your fiancée's hair, this isn't really a beginner's guide to begin with, but possibly still very interesting. Pre-flight checks... First a bit of environmental checking, speaking of which... the UAV Forecast app. I think there's not better app around (that I know of) than this one. It's incredibly easy to understand and easy to use, straight to the point, all you need to know in one screen. Bas
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Mavic Mini fly-away case investigated...

The INVESTIGATION results arrived… and are deeply underwhelming Yes, the results of my Mavic Mini fly-away case investigation have finally reached me, unlike that Mini which didn't want to stay with me at all... Here's an extract from the mail I received: For your case CAS-XXXXXX0-TXXXX6, we have finished the data analysis, and the result is as follows: 1. The aircraft worked under GPS mode and it responded to the pilot's commands well; 2. Flight Time T=07:21, Relative Height H=33 m, Distance to Home Point D=321.1 m, the pilot pulled back the pitch stick and the flight record ended when the aircraft was flying backward at a speed of 3.1 m/s; 3. Take-off point: 4X.5666842 1X.5343523; The last recorded point: 4X.5651199 1X.5310026. The record ended without any sign of abnormality, so we could not verify what happened afterward. To their credit they did offer something to compensate me, a 30% discount for another Mavic Mini. No options to get any ot
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How the DJI Mavic Mini TOTALLY RUINED my Christmas Holidays

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How the DJI Mavic Mini TOTALLY RUINED my Christmas Holidays It flew away from me on the second day To the DJI Mavic Mini community of owners, enthusiasts, reviewers and more... Hello, I am m80(116) and I am from Italy... and no I am not 16 years old in case you're wondering about this Greta styled introduction, but I've had my first and only drone recently, so I am novice drone pilot and I was so excited about it like I haven't been for a long time before, and with the Mini has been love at first sight. Let me just point out something about my character: I am quite an old style dude, but decently competent when it comes to tech, say for example customize a PC many would tell you change the desktop wallpaper or change the colours, for me it means regedit.exe, services.msc and task scheduler. I could carry on... So like many of you probably I was made aware from the Interweb about this wonderful little creature that is the Mavic Mini and I decided almost
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