Well....I’m coming at this with a bad attitude.....suggestions welcome
My first Mavic mini flight was interesting.....I was used to go4 and Litchi from about years worth of phantom 4 and spark flying.
The fly app was uncluttered and easy to take off with.....
of notice was the battery.....flight time left bar across top of ipad 9.7 gen 6 that I had come to trust was not there.
it had a digital timer of flight time left and I took off with firmware updated.....
I noticed that the timer digits were up and down....something at a level never experienced with the spark or phantom.....
I was lulled by the.....it has 30 min of fly time by spec.....so if I get say 25 mins.....that might be real world.....
at about 13 mins time controls had lag.....video link came and went and I turned around to come back home.....landed on a floor Matt pad and said.....I don’t know....seems strange.....but nothing that said eminent danger....
put second battery in.....re booted.....got take off ok.....and up and away......at about 10 and a half minutes it felt flakey again and I turned and came home.....flight time left was all over the place.....but I was coming home.....at distance my lowly Spark with specs of 16 mins had done over and over before.....
I noticed altitude drop......and hit stick to ascend.....it did....then dropped again.......
my brain goes into.....oh my this is what happens when you ignore slash cancel RTH too many times ......been there...done that.....and in that crash.....I learned how to start using the black box telemetry on my android phone to figure out where the bird landed.....even had the data in 3 d on a google earth pro environment......
Well....I landed in a tree about 35 ft off the ground........that single pine tree in a cow pasture provided a soft....or I’m gonna say softer than it could have been if it struck hard ground.
There are issues in the way of getting from the ground to the branch the mini is on......
But with ladder....chain saw.....and cold beer to calm my nerves .....Im about to get to a point that hopefully a 18 ft piece of pvc pipe stretched out will dislodge mini and it will fall onto a kids blow up plastic swimming pool that is upside down.....theory being there will be some cushion if it falls as I hope.....
My neighbors are amused.....local law enforcement are amused......all from the safety of being outside the barbed wire fence .....that is home to livestock that mostly don’t care......with the exception of The Bull.....who becomes less than docile once I get off the tractor.....
I keep a legal Judge side arm chambered with .410 bird shot or 45 Long Colt depending on the day.....
Im becoming more inclined to put the Mavic Mini out of its misery........the Bull.....well it’s his field.....even though he doesn’t pay property taxes there.....
as a reasonable person..... I think his aggressive behavior is ok.....he is just doing his job.....
Now....The Fly app finally got data into my paid version of Airdata and the dreaded not enough force.....ESC errors are clearly seen there.....
my best interpretation is a motor is breaking down after heating up.....could be a prop.....but they felt and looked fine to me.....very fragile feeling like the parrot Anafi series......
I mean no disrespect to the Parrot company or the Anafi......but with cash money in hand I’ve walked away several times......they felt flimsy ....the Mini feels the same......however I pre paid and have 2 of them.....
I would post over in the Mavic Pilots forum.....but that’s another issue.....no many how many times I confirm my email.....I get a not privilidged enough to post screen......
Dji forums are virtually useless......their moderators cut copy and paste canned responses of.....Fly app won’t work with Airdata.....but informed users say it does.....my experience is yes....but it took almost two days to show up.....
Feel my frustration ?
My first Mavic mini flight was interesting.....I was used to go4 and Litchi from about years worth of phantom 4 and spark flying.
The fly app was uncluttered and easy to take off with.....
of notice was the battery.....flight time left bar across top of ipad 9.7 gen 6 that I had come to trust was not there.
it had a digital timer of flight time left and I took off with firmware updated.....
I noticed that the timer digits were up and down....something at a level never experienced with the spark or phantom.....
I was lulled by the.....it has 30 min of fly time by spec.....so if I get say 25 mins.....that might be real world.....
at about 13 mins time controls had lag.....video link came and went and I turned around to come back home.....landed on a floor Matt pad and said.....I don’t know....seems strange.....but nothing that said eminent danger....
put second battery in.....re booted.....got take off ok.....and up and away......at about 10 and a half minutes it felt flakey again and I turned and came home.....flight time left was all over the place.....but I was coming home.....at distance my lowly Spark with specs of 16 mins had done over and over before.....
I noticed altitude drop......and hit stick to ascend.....it did....then dropped again.......
my brain goes into.....oh my this is what happens when you ignore slash cancel RTH too many times ......been there...done that.....and in that crash.....I learned how to start using the black box telemetry on my android phone to figure out where the bird landed.....even had the data in 3 d on a google earth pro environment......
Well....I landed in a tree about 35 ft off the ground........that single pine tree in a cow pasture provided a soft....or I’m gonna say softer than it could have been if it struck hard ground.
There are issues in the way of getting from the ground to the branch the mini is on......
But with ladder....chain saw.....and cold beer to calm my nerves .....Im about to get to a point that hopefully a 18 ft piece of pvc pipe stretched out will dislodge mini and it will fall onto a kids blow up plastic swimming pool that is upside down.....theory being there will be some cushion if it falls as I hope.....
My neighbors are amused.....local law enforcement are amused......all from the safety of being outside the barbed wire fence .....that is home to livestock that mostly don’t care......with the exception of The Bull.....who becomes less than docile once I get off the tractor.....
I keep a legal Judge side arm chambered with .410 bird shot or 45 Long Colt depending on the day.....
Im becoming more inclined to put the Mavic Mini out of its misery........the Bull.....well it’s his field.....even though he doesn’t pay property taxes there.....
as a reasonable person..... I think his aggressive behavior is ok.....he is just doing his job.....
Now....The Fly app finally got data into my paid version of Airdata and the dreaded not enough force.....ESC errors are clearly seen there.....
my best interpretation is a motor is breaking down after heating up.....could be a prop.....but they felt and looked fine to me.....very fragile feeling like the parrot Anafi series......
I mean no disrespect to the Parrot company or the Anafi......but with cash money in hand I’ve walked away several times......they felt flimsy ....the Mini feels the same......however I pre paid and have 2 of them.....
I would post over in the Mavic Pilots forum.....but that’s another issue.....no many how many times I confirm my email.....I get a not privilidged enough to post screen......
Dji forums are virtually useless......their moderators cut copy and paste canned responses of.....Fly app won’t work with Airdata.....but informed users say it does.....my experience is yes....but it took almost two days to show up.....
Feel my frustration ?
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