hey everyone
I bought a new drone MAVIC MINI and my flight time is far away than 30 minutes. I get max.18 minutes of flight while drone just floats in the air. If I fly with him I get 15 min or less. Why? I bought mini in combo set and I have 3 battery. With each battery I get a similar flight time. Batteries has been charged 2 or 3 times only, so they are brand new.

How much % do you land with? Otherwise post the log here...

The duration of the flight depends on the weather conditions (temperature, wind), height above sea level and the flight mode used.
By keeping the charge above 20% you never get to 30 minutes.

OK i will post log later. I have test  flight time in my apartment and there are perfect weather contition, no wind and temperature was 23C. I have land with 3% of battery and get few seconds less than 18min of flight. In that flight he hovered in air, I didn't fly with him.

zip007 Posted at 5-5 23:01
OK i will post log later. I have test  flight time in my apartment and there are perfect weather contition, no wind and temperature was 23C. I have land with 3% of battery and get few seconds less than 18min of flight. In that flight he hovered in air, I didn't fly with him.

New battery needs to run a few cycles (charge->discharge->charge) for optimal performance. Fresh charge before the flight (and half-charge storing) helps too. I usually fly 22-25 minutes, landing at 10-15%...

Seems awfully low.

Did you install other accessories like landing gear, prop cage, lens hood, motor caps? I noticed when I fully kit out my MM for testing (yes, crash prone tests), it flies about 15 mins.

Yes. There was propeller cage install on MM. After I remove him i get almost 25 min of flight outside. Thx. This is my first drone. Please one more question. As there is short range of 5.8 connection, I manually swith to 2.4 and pick the best green stable transmission and then this best stable transmission immediately become unstable and red. Why? After a 5 min of picking, one of green network remains green and now i am able to fly. How to prevent this?

Did you update the batteries to the most recent firmware?

Yes battery and all is updated

zip007 Posted at 5-7 11:51
Yes. There was propeller cage install on MM. After I remove him i get almost 25 min of flight outside. Thx. This is my first drone. Please one more question. As there is short range of 5.8 connection, I manually swith to 2.4 and pick the best green stable transmission and then this best stable transmission immediately become unstable and red. Why? After a 5 min of picking, one of green network remains green and now i am able to fly. How to prevent this?

I often notice that too, but apparently it doesn't mean anything. I also have this change in the green / red bars if there are no transmission towers or houses (WLANs) far and wide.
I always fly 2.4GHz channel 9 manually

With prop guards it adds extra weight and the drone has to work harder to maintain flight in payload mode. Without the prop guards flight time is increased.

With prop guards you shouldn't probably even fly outside unless almost at arms length. The danger of flying with such a burden I imagine being hidden from you.

The prop guards are of very minimal weight (maybe 25 grams). But they do cause drag on the drone and do reduce the efficiency of the props due to the air friction. Better to leave them off when outside.

virtual Posted at 5-5 23:32
New battery needs to run a few cycles (charge->discharge->charge) for optimal performance. Fresh charge before the flight (and half-charge storing) helps too. I usually fly 22-25 minutes, landing at 10-15%...

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How do you get this screen shot?

Thalisbl Posted at 5-8 09:31
How do you get this screen shot?

For Android device long press on/off button and you have option turn off/restart/screenshot...

virtual Posted at 5-8 10:45
For Android device long press on/off button and you have option turn off/restart/screenshot...

Thank you :-)

zip007 Posted at 5-7 11:51
Yes. There was propeller cage install on MM. After I remove him i get almost 25 min of flight outside. Thx. This is my first drone. Please one more question. As there is short range of 5.8 connection, I manually swith to 2.4 and pick the best green stable transmission and then this best stable transmission immediately become unstable and red. Why? After a 5 min of picking, one of green network remains green and now i am able to fly. How to prevent this?

That is why.