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Soterisk
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Our Air are a good flight machine but we have make every time some check list to avoid errors.
1. Always fly with fcc mode and 5.8gh band. Usually I used the 149 channel.
2. Do not make update immedietly. Wait for confirmation from beta users.
3.make sure your motors are balance via touch sensing with your hands.
4.Avoid to use every time the RTH faction.
5.Avoid to use the autonomous flight modes and fly manually.
6.Use a powerful mobile or tablet for your flight.
7.Do not stress the battery.
And many more..  
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Paul_IA
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Good list but most of that would apply to drones in general though.
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GDL
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Yes, you need to know the limit of your bird to fly it safely.
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nixuspix
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Have to agree to the words above - the same i am applying to my Spark as well
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Cindav
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What do you mean by point 3?

How do you do that?
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DJKOR
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A generic "use 5Ghz over 2.4Ghz" isn't a simple "go to" standard. It comes down to interference and knowing your surroundings. While 2.4Ghz from other devices will cause more interference as it is more common, it more importantly has the ability to transmit further so if your surrounding environment isn't as noisy with 2.4Ghz, then you can actually benefit using that over 5Ghz.
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Gimbali
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Cindav Posted at 2018-8-14 22:00
What do you mean by point 3?

How do you do that?

Yes, I'd like to know that too.
And if you decide they're not balanced, what then?
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Roundhouse_
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1. Always fly with fcc mode and 5.8gh band. Usually I used the 149 channel.

not everybody lives in the USA...

5.Avoid to use the autonomous flight modes and fly manually.

Why? if you check where to use the autonomous modes you should  be alright.




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Soterisk
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Cindav Posted at 2018-8-14 22:00
What do you mean by point 3?

How do you do that?

When you take out the props and start the motors and touch the legs one by one and fill the vibrator.
My method is simble.
Start the motors and pull up the left stick.
You can fill the prblematic motor. I put one small pice of tape in radom spot at the first and if the vibrator is worse then I try to the opposite site and for several points and with patience I do the best balance of my motors.
I was put tapes to 3 motors of 4 of them. The forth motors was OK.
Is a small deferment but I hear my drones noise more smooth.
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Soterisk
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Roundhouse_ Posted at 2018-8-15 03:47
1. Always fly with fcc mode and 5.8gh band. Usually I used the 149 channel.

not everybody lives in the USA...

I am from Cyprus, so we are in Europe protocol. I changed it to fcc.
If you are 100% sure to avoid collision then is OK to fly with autonomous modes.
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Roundhouse_
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Soterisk Posted at 2018-8-15 14:46
I am from Cyprus, so we are in Europe protocol. I changed it to fcc.
If you are 100% sure to avoid collision then is OK to fly with autonomous modes.

How did you change this to FCC, i live in the netherlands and really have no idea i even had the option
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saviour
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Roundhouse_ Posted at 2018-8-16 00:39
How did you change this to FCC, i live in the netherlands and really have no idea i even had the option

With GPS Fakers, check youtube,  there are plenty of videos. It's illegal though, don't forget that.
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Roundhouse_
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saviour Posted at 2018-8-16 01:16
With GPS Fakers, check youtube,  there are plenty of videos. It's illegal though, don't forget that.

oh ok, well i dont like to anything with a thing thats called a gps faker on on gps depended drone. makes the adviice to always fly FCC a little strange to me
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HendrikJB
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As do the comment about the legality.
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saviour
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Roundhouse_ Posted at 2018-8-16 04:27
oh ok, well i dont like to anything with a thing thats called a gps faker on on gps depended drone. makes the adviice to always fly FCC a little strange to me

Basically you tell your phone you are in a FCC area while you are actually in a CE area. Then you start your DJI Go App and the app thinks you are in a FCC area and will change your mode to FCC, too. Then you deactivate your GPS Faker so your map and GPS works correctly and when DJI Go app then wants to change back to CE you just press cancel and your drone will stay in FCC.
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Matthew Chirico
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never have, never will use RTH. I just never trusted it and always manually land
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Matthew Chirico Posted at 2018-8-16 05:41
never have, never will use RTH. I just never trusted it and always manually land

Oh, you'll use it someday.  You may not initiate it, but you'll use it.  Never is a long time.
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Merced69
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You need to know and understand the RTH function, and set it up correctly for your surroundings.  Then if you have any issue with phone or RC, your aircraft can still land correctly where you want it.  Pushing the drone beyond its limits, or not setting up the drone correctly for a safe RTH, will cause issues.  I have safely used RTH when connection was lost and it does work incredibly well, at over 1000m out it landed back to with .5m of the takeoff spot.  It can also be cancelled at any time.
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DJKOR Posted at 2018-8-14 22:16
A generic "use 5Ghz over 2.4Ghz" isn't a simple "go to" standard. It comes down to interference and knowing your surroundings. While 2.4Ghz from other devices will cause more interference as it is more common, it more importantly has the ability to transmit further so if your surrounding environment isn't as noisy with 2.4Ghz, then you can actually benefit using that over 5Ghz.

I'm with you here.  There seems to be a widely believed myth that 5ghz is "Better" than 2.4.  The reality is different.  As you said it all boils down to interference.  If you are flying in an area where there are a ton of 2.4ghz signals, then you will likely be better off using 5.  Other than that 2.4 is a more reliable and longer range signal.  Shorter wavelength signals just travel better.  All that said, these days, 5ghz is getting more crowded these days.
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DJKOR
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joe.balcius Posted at 2018-8-16 08:28
I'm with you here.  There seems to be a widely believed myth that 5ghz is "Better" than 2.4.  The reality is different.  As you said it all boils down to interference.  If you are flying in an area where there are a ton of 2.4ghz signals, then you will likely be better off using 5.  Other than that 2.4 is a more reliable and longer range signal.  Shorter wavelength signals just travel better.  All that said, these days, 5ghz is getting more crowded these days.

Longer wavelengths travel further, but I know what you mean

As for the comments from the OP about balancing the motors, If you have an imbalance in your motor, I'm pretty sure this is not a good thing and you shouldn't have to be messing with your own DIY balancing. Also, all this is pretty much null the moment you attach the propellers. If you were properly going to balance things, you will be doing so with the props. But then if you had an issue with that, I would be changing the props rather than attempting a DIY fix.
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Nice list thanks for sharing
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