I have ordered the Air, think it will suit my needs ok. I have seen a couple of YouTube videos now of guys doing flight distance tests, 3 miles out now seems to be possible but why would you ever need that. All 3 guys almost lost their drones by the way, landing with only 1 or 2% battery left.
I have ordered the Air, think it will suit my needs ok. I have seen a couple of YouTube videos now of guys doing flight distance tests, 3 miles out now seems to be possible but why would you ever need that. All 3 guys almost lost their drones by the way, landing with only 1 or 2% battery left.
What country was the videos in? Remember there's different regulations for different countries. When looking at the max transmission distance, we're CE (in bold) in the UK. The US is FCC which have a much farther distance than us. IMO for this size of drone the CE regulations are more than plenty as you can loose sight of it quickly.
2.400 - 2.4835 GHz:
FCC: 4000 m
CE: 2000 m (1.2miles or 6336 feet if uninterrupted by other signals such as strong wi-fi etc).
SRRC: 2000 m
MIC: 2000 m
5.725 - 5.850 GHz:
FCC: 4000 m
CE: 500 m (0.31miles or 1636.8 feet if uninterrupted by other signals such as strong wi-fi etc).
SRRC: 2500 m
Specs URL: https://www.dji.com/mavic-air/info#specs
And such activity completely goes against the UK Drone Code where visual line of sight must be maintained.
Apologies for sounding like the Drone Police, but those guys on YouTube are complete cockwombles
It's really not a good idea to fly indoors, you seem to have got away with it but anyone else reading please start outside with good GPS signal.
Indoors it stabilises with downward visual sensors and if light is poor or the surface doesn't have much pattern or texture it will drift.
Also avoidance sensor don't work as well if light is lower.
One of the commonest wails on Drone forums is "got it all updated for first flight and couldn't wait so tried in the house - got confused when it drifted and crashed into furniture/TV/Wall"
I've been flying them for nearly five years and still wouldn't do it unless it was a huge room.
It's really not a good idea to fly indoors, you seem to have got away with it but anyone else reading please start outside with good GPS signal.
Indoors it stabilises with downward visual sensors and if light is poor or the surface doesn't have much pattern or texture it will drift.
Also avoidance sensor don't work as well if light is lower.
One of the commonest wails on Drone forums is "got it all updated for first flight and couldn't wait so tried in the house - got confused when it drifted and crashed into furniture/TV/Wall"
I've been flying them for nearly five years and still wouldn't do it unless it was a huge room.
Could some of the more experienced drone pilots here take a look at this and give me some ideas as to what happened. I was at 350ft, around 5000ft out and starting to turn left back towards where i was standing when it went slightly out of control.
There was very little wind and the whole flight had been very smooth up until then. I hit RTH a few seconds after it started to go funny and it took another few seconds to sort itself out before coming back to me. as you can see the horizon was still off up to the end point of the video.
The battery was still at 35% when it landed, i had been flying for 12 minutes before this section of video.
View: https://youtu.be/lZNroYiZbzA
It's hard to tell. Have you got the logs? That will give a better indication. Did you get any warnings on the screen etc? Lose signal? It could either be heavy, heavy winds (remember the wind is different to being on ground level), an issue with the props, motors or even a bird! The gimbal would have kept it straight so the drone has tilted far more than it should. Did you do the pre-flight checks? Checked the props for breakages, cracks etc? Ensured the motors can spin freely?Any damage to the drone just now?
The DJI app has a basic video editor included for short clips, I've never tried to use it but some do get decent results.
Much better working on a computer though even if you run the app on a tablet.
They seem to be aiming at those who want to stick a minute or less on social media almost immediately uploading direct from phone.
Have a look at DaVinci Resolve 14. I think it's still free to download (from blackmagic guys). I use it for editing my footage and it's awesome. You do need a reasonably high spec machine though. (at least 8GB Ram and decent processor)Thanks 4wd, I'll have a look at it and see how I get on. I've been watching YouTube videos on Final Cut Pro this week and am thinking it might be worth the investment at a later day. I really don't want to get tied into paying monthly for software so Adobe Premiere is out! I'll see how I get on with free/cheap software first though before I spend anything.
Just ordered my Mavic Air (in black) from Heliguy and it should be arriving tomorrow!
Have a look at DaVinci Resolve 14. I think it's still free to download (from blackmagic guys). I use it for editing my footage and it's awesome. You do need a reasonably high spec machine though. (at least 8GB Ram and decent processor)
Thanks Tim, free is my favourite price I had a look at some YouTube how to's for DaVinci Resolve 14 and it looks awesome. Does all the basic stuff that I'll need and then millions of other things that I don't even understand Looks a lot more user friendly than the FCP as well from what I've seen.
Hi Gary,hi all, hope Im not repeating similar question here but I've looked for anything related and cant find any...im planning getting the mavic air but have read about issues with DJI software on android... is this an issue or is it an issue with ios too....dont wont to be spending hundreds of pounds only to have issues with controller...i was going to be using a moto g5plus
many thank
hi all, hope Im not repeating similar question here but I've looked for anything related and cant find any...im planning getting the mavic air but have read about issues with DJI software on android... is this an issue or is it an issue with ios too....dont wont to be spending hundreds of pounds only to have issues with controller...i was going to be using a moto g5plus
many thank
So I downloaded Davinci Resolve 14 on my Mac, and it crashes on startup every time. I didn't realise how long I'd had my iMac (8 years!!) so it's really underspec for any sort of video editing I think. I've read that 4gb is recommended for the GPU, and I have... 256mb... lol. I'm trying to install Resolve 12 to see if I can get that to work, but it looks like I might be on the road to a new iMac!
This drone stuff is starting to get expensive!
I'm using the Mavic Air with a Samsung J5, which isn't by any means a top phone, with no problems.hi all, hope Im not repeating similar question here but I've looked for anything related and cant find any...im planning getting the mavic air but have read about issues with DJI software on android... is this an issue or is it an issue with ios too....dont wont to be spending hundreds of pounds only to have issues with controller...i was going to be using a moto g5plus
many thank
So I downloaded Davinci Resolve 14 on my Mac, and it crashes on startup every time. I didn't realise how long I'd had my iMac (8 years!!) so it's really underspec for any sort of video editing I think. I've read that 4gb is recommended for the GPU, and I have... 256mb... lol. I'm trying to install Resolve 12 to see if I can get that to work, but it looks like I might be on the road to a new iMac!
This drone stuff is starting to get expensive!
Thanks for reply PhilI'm using the Mavic Air with a Samsung J5, which isn't by any means a top phone, with no problems.
Thanks for that,really appreciate itThe app is quite demanding and they seem to keep adding more stuff to it, making it more and more bloated.
It runs more or less flawlessly on my old Samsung S5, you do need a reasonably good spec device though.
I like to restart the phone just before connecting so practically nothing else is running.
With Android the phone takes charge from the controller, there is no easy way to stop this.
The rate of draw is quite small and you can minimise it by having everything fully charged when you start.
Here’s a 180 Pano I did with the Mavic Pro,
Takes great pano’s, just using the Dji go 4 app no third party apps,
https://flic.kr/p/25wYszB
Yeah there’s no way to drop the camera as it takes them automatically so no control over camera angle,It does a good job with Panos apart from every photo you see people post looks like that, ie the horizon straight through the middle which looks terrible imo.
Why can you not just take individual photos and move the gimbal down and stitch them after?Yeah there’s no way to drop the camera as it takes them automatically so no control over camera angle,
It’s not good I know
I suppose you could do and its what I did with the phantom, but maybe I’m too lazy as the feature is there readyWhy can you not just take individual photos and move the gimbal down and stitch them after?