Hi fellow Mavic pilots,

I just received my Mavic today and have been flying a couple of times this evening (first time flying a drone). Amazing machine!

I don't fully understand the behaviour of the red front LEDs - can someone enlighten me?
They seem to switch off some time after lift off, which made it quite hard to see the orientation of the drone (and it was very dark). The front LED are turned on in the GO app, and they do light up when starting. They also seemed to switch back on at least one time when the drone came close to the ground again. Is there any rules to when they are on and off respectively?

I noticed they turn off if you take a picture.. and maybe video if it's dark.. but other than that I believe the other way is to use the menu to turn them off.

There's second menu option to turn them off specifically when taking photo/video. Took me a few days to work this out too.

In addition - you can map one of the C buttons to control the front LEDs. I have set mine to C2 and disabled auto off photo/video.  In this way I can quickly turn them on for orientation or location & off for stealth. Such a good design, even these LEDs have been well thought out so as you rotate you can only see both when it is pointing pretty much straight at you.

Logger Posted at 2016-11-16 07:46
In addition - you can map one of the C buttons to control the front LEDs. I have set mine to C2 and  ...

Hadn't thought of doing that.

Excellent idea.

This does not seem right is there any reference in the manual as the responses here are not answering your question.
Yes there is a setting within the Go app to turn them off but i do not believe they should be turning on and off on their own.

My right LED doesn't even work, lol

"Product of China"

Visual Air Posted at 2016-11-16 09:42
This does not seem right is there any reference in the manual as the responses here are not answerin ...

As I noted, there is a SECOND option within the camera settings to have them automatically turn them off during filming or taking a video. This option is on by default hence the behavior being experienced by the OP. With this option turned off, they stay on as long as the option in the standard settings is set to on.