BumblerBee
First Officer
Flight distance : 639764 ft
Norway
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Hurrah! Tonight was the grand unpacking of Mini 2 Fly more combo (which in my heart is a Mavic Mini 2). Perfectly thought-out accessory bag, battery charger (and power bank!), a nice controller (it'll take some time getting used to phone at the top and the absence of the information screen). I like the props holder - a really nice touch.
I was amazed at how small and light Mini 2 is. Even expecting it, that came as a surprise. It felt like holding a hamster after years of having a rabbit for a pet.
Mavic Pro is still more robust as has more fail-safes, so it should be safer to fly in the vicinity of people, than a Mini 2. But with the new regulations, Mavic Pro is relegated to A3 (I'll probably take the A2 exam come spring), and Mini 2 takes its place as the everyday camera with an altitude.
The colour of the body could have been darker. The light-grey will be harder to see against blue or grey sky, than Mavic Pro. The white led stip (colour-configurable) was a nice surprise. That should help with visibility.
Having update the quad and the controller, as well as all the three bateries, I now did some home-testing, but limiting to only an idle start of the engines and otherwise testing with engines off.
One thing that presented a problem was the choice of a microSD card. I have a selection of cards, all verified and in perfect working condition. I started with the card I use with Mavic Pro, a Kingston 64GB SCXC C10 U1 (10MB/s). Mini 2 came up with a card read error. Thinking it had something to do with the size, changed to a Kingston 32GB SDHC C10 U1 (10MB/s). Same error message. Inserted then a Kingston SDHC marked with C4. This is a slower 4MB/s card, but Mini 2 recognised it as valid, though giving a warning that the card is slow. Luckily, I had one last card that Mini 2 was perfectly happy with - a SanDisk 16GB SDHC U3 (30MB/s). The capacity is too low for a day out filming - only about 24 minutes of 4K footage, so I have some more shopping to do - probably 2 more 32GB cards to change between flights as I am not sure Muni 2 supports 64GB?
The Fly app is for the most part intuitive and easy to use, though it would be nice to have the remaining flight time indication bar (colour-coded, where the time to home and critical zone were easy to spot at a glance without additional taps) and the compass (with pilot/home point as the origin) as they were in Go app.
I'll see if I manage to take it up for a short flight in the backyard during the week-end (sub-0 temperatures here, which should not be a big problem for warm batteries and a few minutes in the air)
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