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Frogyprod
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This is the furthest I've ever been able to push my Mavic (Would always lose signal and it would start returning home) Guess the range on the "Wifi" isn't so bad, it's just the interference it gets from a densly populated area. How far have you guys been able to push your mavics?
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NitemareTrainer
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I am afraid to take mine that far.
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Alex B.
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Nice flight.
I take my spark 3 km one way no problem

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Charissa
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Awesome. Mine gave me around 1.3 km in Namibia, but only around 800meters in and around Pretoria, South Africa.
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Charissa Posted at 2018-9-24 10:52
Awesome. Mine gave me around 1.3 km in Namibia, but only around 800meters in and around Pretoria, South Africa.

Does that mean you lose signal and it starts returning to home automatically?
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Alex B. Posted at 2018-9-24 09:57
Nice flight.
I take my spark 3 km one way no problem

Wow 3km on a Spark?? Gotta say that is really impressive since the spark is marketed as going only 2km. I wonder how far the Air can really go if the battery lasted longer
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A CW
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I always got a decent distance with my MA.
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Alex B.
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Frogyprod Posted at 2018-9-24 10:54
Wow 3km on a Spark?? Gotta say that is really impressive since the spark is marketed as going only 2km. I wonder how far the Air can really go if the battery lasted longer

Yep, here is the vid



I bet that I can take the mavic air 5 km one way, there’s a guy I know that took his mavic air 4 km one way.
It all depends on the interference where you are flying and the wind.
I always try to do the range tests with minimal wind.

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Alex B. Posted at 2018-9-24 11:15
Yep, here is the vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHaIM_2IwmA

Wow thats really impressive and very nice footage from the spark!
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Alex B.
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Frogyprod Posted at 2018-9-24 11:21
Wow thats really impressive and very nice footage from the spark!

Thanks

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JJBspark
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Hi,

Nice video and great range!

If i may make one remark: you did not align your mobile device compass with your drone!
Red arrow should move forward toward the white marking.Is that important, well not when you know where you drone is flying.....
If you loose sight, than aligning center - red arrow - white marking >> you know where to look in the sky and point your antennas to it (better signal)

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Frogyprod
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JJBspark Posted at 2018-9-24 11:51
Nice video and range.

Only you did not align your mobile device compass with your drone!

I noticed that while I was editing... Question: What is the number % on the compass that says "Power" what does that number mean?
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Frogyprod Posted at 2018-9-24 11:58
I noticed that while I was editing... Question: What is the number % on the compass that says "Power" what does that number mean?

number shows how much power you are using. Usefull, well imo not.
Only usefull if you know that with certain power level the fly range will go to a maximum!
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Charissa
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Frogyprod Posted at 2018-9-24 10:54
Does that mean you lose signal and it starts returning to home automatically?

Yeah. Bummer. Send it in for repair, still to test it properly after receiving it back. Did 500meters without problems so far, in a populated area, so signal weaker.
Would love to go 3 kms.
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Alex B.
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Charissa Posted at 2018-9-24 12:04
Yeah. Bummer. Send it in for repair, still to test it properly after receiving it back. Did 500meters without problems so far, in a populated area, so signal weaker.
Would love to go 3 kms.

You are in South Africa so I guess you are in CE mode, which on mavic air is limited to 2km on 2.4 ghz range and only to 500 meters on the 5.8 ghz range.
If you want to go past that, then you will have to change to FCC mode.
Frogyprod is in Canada, so he is in FCC mode and can go to the max drones abilities.

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thats pretty good, i did this the other day over a slightly urbanized area on 5.8Ghz  (stock, not modded)
  
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HereForTheBeer Posted at 2018-9-24 12:30
thats pretty good, i did this the other day over a slightly urbanized area on 5.8Ghz  (stock, not modded)
  
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That’s cool! But you could have went much further, you still had 71% battery left.
The issue was the connection
Try in a different place and you will get at least 4 km, I think the mavic air can do 5 km no problem.
I do 3 km on a spark when it’s advertised as 2 km.
Dustin did a range test of almost 10 km on mavic 2 when it’s advertised as 8 km!

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Alex B. Posted at 2018-9-24 12:39
That’s cool! But you could have went much further, you still had 71% battery left.
The issue was the connection
Try in a different place and you will get at least 4 km, I think the mavic air can do 5 km no problem.

definitely have pushed it further, but i find it impressive that i managed to get it that far on wifi over a very congested area (lot of cell towers and a lot of wifi).  however the battery which was included with my mavic air was defective... not entirely bad on arrival but, bad enough that as you can see at 71% power i'm about to get that low power return to home prompt with 10 second countdown.  and there was no wind in either direction, very calm night.  my new battery i purchased did the same run in and at roughly the same spot i had 84% battery remaining and the yellow H point on the bar is way bar to the left..

now sadly that battery was included with my mavic air has completely failed, it failed separate from this run..  it died while hovering, got "critically low battery" at 80% and the drone dropped out of the air 5 feet up.. now im dealing with the nightmare known as dji customer service..
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HereForTheBeer Posted at 2018-9-24 12:48
definitely have pushed it further, but i find it impressive that i managed to get it that far on wifi over a very congested area (lot of cell towers and a lot of wifi).  however the battery which was included with my mavic air was defective... not entirely bad on arrival but, bad enough that as you can see at 71% power i'm about to get that low power return to home prompt with 10 second countdown.  and there was no wind in either direction, very calm night.  my new battery i purchased did the same run in and at roughly the same spot i had 84% battery remaining and the yellow H point on the bar is way bar to the left..

now sadly that battery was included with my mavic air has completely failed, it failed separate from this run..  it died while hovering, got "critically low battery" at 80% and the drone dropped out of the air 5 feet up.. now im dealing with the nightmare known as dji customer service..

Ugh, sorry for that.
Hope everything turns out good for you in the end.

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Nice distance. The furthest I've had mine out is 1.5 miles. Should do a test over land so you can just emergency land it anywhere if you run out of battery.
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HereForTheBeer Posted at 2018-9-24 12:30
thats pretty good, i did this the other day over a slightly urbanized area on 5.8Ghz  (stock, not modded)
  
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Damn that's really impressive.. You went 3.2km with 71% battery left.. in a congested area?!?! Is it cause of the 5.8G ? I thought that one doesn't take you as far
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Frogyprod Posted at 2018-9-24 13:19
Damn that's really impressive.. You went 3.2km with 71% battery left.. in a congested area?!?! Is it cause of the 5.8G ? I thought that one doesn't take you as far

5.8Ghz is better in highly congested areas..  in FCC mode 5.8Ghz has a higher dBm (effective power) as well and thus has more potential to go further..  

the theory behind 2.4Ghz vs 5.8Ghz is higher frequencies get absorbed in the air more and cant go through or around things as much, but the higher dBm of 5.8Ghz more than makes up for those small losses..


and that battery is defective it doesn't know how much power is actually left..says 71% and about to trigger RTH on low battery and also says i have over 8 minutes of power leftr... makes no sense at all. it landed back to my feet with signal digit % remaining after that test..   i did the same exact run with me new battery i purchased myself and at that roughly same 3.2km it was at 84% and the homepoint on the status bar was much further to the left and i managed roughly same distance before got no signal..it returned to me with around 30% power remaining..

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Good job, Video was well put together.
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Alex B.
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I did 3 km with my spark on the 5.8 ghz.

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Charissa
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Alex B. Posted at 2018-9-24 12:16
You are in South Africa so I guess you are in CE mode, which on mavic air is limited to 2km on 2.4 ghz range and only to 500 meters on the 5.8 ghz range.
If you want to go past that, then you will have to change to FCC mode.
Frogyprod is in Canada, so he is in FCC mode and can go to the max drones abilities.

True, but would love to get at least 1.5 km,s average, not just the 5 to 600 m presently. (That is in FCC )
That being said, I have yet to test the repaired drone out properly, so maybe, holding thumbs.........it will be a improvement.
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I have a huge open field/farm behind my house.

I flew it a couple of times from my porch over the weekend and got 1800m with no real connectivity problems.

1km is good enough for me anyway. A circle radius of 1km is a big piece of land
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I wonder if there is a way to piggy back a spare battery?  Like maybe a juice pack or something?
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JJBspark Posted at 2018-9-24 11:51
Hi,

Nice video and great range!

How do you align the mobile device compass with the drone?
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Christine96 Posted at 2018-9-25 15:44
How do you align the mobile device compass with the drone?

Hi Christine,

When your mobile device is compass-wise calibrated the compass in the GoApp will work OK
So has nothing to do with your drone compass; if both compasses are calibrated (drone+device) than you see that the red arrow is pointing fwd. If you stand in a straighline behind your drone you see a picture like this:

a video : https://forum.dji.com/thread-144696-1-1.html

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only 1.1 km me ...
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Nice work
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It always makes me wondering why this is so important to many, since the maximum range of any UAV is widely unpredictable and not repeatable? What is the outcome of such mission? Moreover, long range flights beyond VLOS are always jeopardizing, at least in terms of public safety issues. But that's me ...
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Alex B. Posted at 2018-9-24 11:15
Yep, here is the vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHaIM_2IwmA

Impressive distance Alex!
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Alex B.
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A CW Posted at 2018-9-26 11:38
Impressive distance Alex!

Thanks captn!

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Great flight.
I was nervous for you toward the end. But the little guy came through for you.
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Very nice!
Took my MP about 2km
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Matthew Dobrski Posted at 2018-9-26 11:27
It always makes me wondering why this is so important to many, since the maximum range of any UAV is widely unpredictable and not repeatable? What is the outcome of such mission? Moreover, long range flights beyond VLOS are always jeopardizing, at least in terms of public safety issues. But that's me ...

its the same when people ask what is the point of occusync system on the mavic pro/2 if your not allowed to fly miles away... its not all about how far it can and will go but how solid that signal is when its in a less than ideal environment, the fact that it goes basically forever is a consequence of that quality... and people want to see what the limits are

but also for some of us, its a bit of a thrill pushing your drone to the "extreme" then managing to get it back..

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Nice video
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My top range on MA is 3.5 km. Top distance on one battery is 8213 meters.
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JJBspark Posted at 2018-9-25 22:46
Hi Christine,

When your mobile device is compass-wise calibrated the compass in the GoApp will work OK

Thank you for posting that.  Now I see what you mean.  
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