asaw
Second Officer
Flight distance : 1672566 ft
Ukraine
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Since the infamous release of the .400 FW update for the Mavic Air in May I've been flying mostly short-range flights controlling my MA while watching it from the side. Yesterday I made up my mind to do a relatively long-distance FPV flight. And sure enough, it didn't go without problems. The video feed was horrible with 3 (or longer!) -second lags making filming next to impossible. This is no news, I was sort of ready for it. But the telemetry seemed good and without lags... at first. Until the battery level froze at 72% in mid-flight. Luckily I already could "feel" the rate at which the battery should drain when flying so I returned back home at slightly below 40% charge, the charge indicator was still showing 72%! Later I checked the logs on my phone and found that the telemetry had been transmitted just fine. So it was purely a UI issue. Do not ever trust recent versions of DJI GO 4, it is a complete disaster! Luckily I'd purchased Litchi which worked fairly well and I was able to finish filming what I wanted (although I had to force stop the DJI GO and Litchi several times, and even reboot my phone to get DJI GO out of the way and make Litchi connect - something I'd never had to do before). So, for now, I can say I can still use my MA, but what will be next? New SDK release, which Litchi depends upon, which will make it just as unusable as the DJI GO 4 itself? DJI, what's going on? Do you have the slightest idea on how software development is done? It seems like you don't. When are you going to release something that will fix existing bugs, not introduce new ones? Your software (including firmware!) completely ruins the experience of using your brilliant hardware.
P.S. My phone is Sony Xperia Z5 Dual running the latest Android OS release from Sony.
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