I have a week old Mavic Pro Platinum, live in residential area, houses, trees, street wires. I can’t get past .6 miles (1340 ft). What am I doing wrong. Our is it just what to expect given terrain/environment.

Thanks, john

Hello and good day john. I am sorry for the trouble and thank you for reaching out. Can you please try to fly your DJI Mavic Pro Platinum in to a different location to see if the problem persists since there might be a possible interference that causing the said issue. Also, please note that magnetic interference can have a bad effect on image transmission and it can also cause disconnection. Please keep us posted fro further assistance. Thank you.

Checked your flight distance is not set to .6 miles ?

6 miles are 9 km and not 7 km in manual descriped.

Do you get any kind of error message?  Do you just start losing connection or does it come up and say maximum distance reached??

Peterx Posted at 7-26 23:32
6 miles are 9 km and not 7 km in manual descriped.

I did´´nt see the point before the 6 miles but 1 km is really too few distance for the platinum. What FW is on your system.
Did you have a check for the antennas on the RC yet.?

line of sight is largely the greatest impediment .. if you are trying to 'shoot your signal' through a house.. heavy tree cover etc.. it won't work.. its wifi after all and while 2.4 has better penetration than 5.x .. its still not great

second is wifi congestion .. so when you are getting attenuation due to obstacles, now add co-channel interference and your signal to noise ratio goes to hell...

also, I see many people pointing their antennas the wrong way.. fist they don't point at the drone.. the antenna should be at a 90 deg angle to the drone... and when you get out even a couple thousand feet if you do simple math.. even at 300ft .. the angle above horizon is only a couple degrees yet I see people pointing their antennas up at 40 or 50 degrees and if you use reflectors or other range boosting signal narrowing devices.. that angle has to match closer...

lastly.. ALWAYS check space weather.. IE Kp levels .. I will not fly out very far over a Kp of 3-4 depending on sat geometry .. which is also space weather.. just because you have 9+ sats doesn't mean you have a good PDOP/HDOP ..

if any of these terms make you tilt your head like a dog watching TV.. do some research.. because these values are what your drone depends on for autopilot .. so .. be aware or you WILL have an ATTI MODE departure and your Mavic will bolt and fly away ... never to be seen again...