Ernest possibly, the head wind was only letting me get about 10-16mph and there was still 3600 ft of water between me and the quad, so in the moment it absolutely seemed impossible

Im only saying this because at 3:31 you had lots of height and 34% battery and were cruising at 23mph! You would have just and just made it with 4mins flight time. That 2mins it shows you is till auto landing. But again, if I had a friends house I would have done the same. Not gonna risk £1000

haha! I definitely see your point! My inexperience with the mavic put my brain into panic mode and my estimation skills went out the window! ah well, never again (intentionally) will i do this. thanks for watching!

Ike Brider So the mavic is impossible to see from the sky, that must suck. I'll stick with my Phantom 4.

Typical loser who has old tech attempting to put down newer tech

I hope you're an immigrant.

+James Veitch im honored you watched my video! I used the DJI Go app. This flight was done manually, as in, i just pushed the the direction stick foreword and watched...im scientific that way! You can pre program flights into the mavic, though. I havent played with it in that mode yet. I enjoyed your TedTalk

ha ha!

Chris Rollins right? I was more worried for him there thinking he might be needing surgery to remove a fence from his colon

andy kirby i get all sorts of drones i have a mavic for you

+ZIMALETA HOW TO SHOW & UNBOXING the stated ASL altitude of the mavic is 16,404 ft. From the factory it comes limited to 400 ft AGL. Thats where i leave mine limited to.

thank you! PLEASE come back and share it, Id love to see it!

Caleb Canal it really is! A part of me felt silly for being so worried, but then again a thousand dollars at the bottom of the lake is a legitimate worry in my book! Thanks for watching

yeah it got hot on the bottom! It was warm that day, and it astroturfing on the grass for about 15 minutes before i could get to it. so that might be why! You're gonna love it!

haha thank you!

I agree

Ken Serratt hahaha i've never heard that term before! Awesome! Im gonna use it! Yes its a real thing for me! Haha thanks man!

+Kevin Walker haha thank you sir

Just showed this to my neighbor. Had us dying laughing. AGAIN!!!! Now he's pumped on getting a drone. I have the P4 limited, Mavic, & a Typhoon H. I like them all so not sure what to recommend. Any thoughts???

Kevin Walker mavic pro seems more futuristic looking, but revell spot 2.0 is cheap and fast.

OOOH good question! I think probably the shut off, because i knew i was gonna do it a few days in advance, so i was nervous for those days! the long flight fiasco was a surprise

i think the tail wind helped me on the way out. but was a huge hindrance on the return leg of the flight

wow, so I now I have to decide on a toy for 160 or the beast mavric $999 ha

great idea! you'll love it!

With a little Mavic, it's effectively out of sight (For flying orientation) in a couple hundred yards. FPV and the GPS map give you all the info you need and then some. It's a lot easier than trying to fly via line of sight a symmetric spec in the sky. The FAA is nuts. I have TONS of time in a P3P, and have pushed it, lost signal and had it come home MANY times. I REALLY WOULD fly that thing out to 10,000', turn off the remote, and bet $2,000 it will land real close to where it took off. Anyone who wants to bet can message me. You'll lose! The Mavic has done well, but the DJI Go4 App is always dying and needing to be restarted on my Android phone. And I've read about a couple fly aways. BUT I'd Zbet $500 the Mavic comes home if you completely turn off the remote, and will land real near where it lifted off.

I can see my mavic more than 1,000 yards out. But don't blink. Lol

come check out my Solo 3DR video, it flew 40,000 foot.

@@gedgar2000 I take my Mavic out to an indicated 3300 metres REGULARLY, and I do manual orbits. If I engage RTH it returns and lands on the 80cm landing pad. If you could do the same with a rifle any army in the world would have you as a sniper.

When I filmed this, I had only had my Mavic for about 2 weeks, so honestly, I'm not sure. I was using the DJI Go app then. Now I'm using the DJI Go 4, and it does let you skip the update. BUT i do know that once you start the update you have to let it complete, I do not think there is a way to cancel.

Chris Rollins yeah , I use the DJI GO 4 App. You do have to complete the update once started. The ability to view flight logs is amazing, to see exactly where it goes down if you do have to land away from home is somewhat reassuring. Next time the firmware update appears I am going to see if it's possible to carry on flying

+Ken Alverson :)

he should have skipped it until he got home

If there is a way to skip it, i couldn't find it that day. I couldn't figure out how to bypass it, it was saying I couldn't take off until I updated. Ticked me off pretty good.

That update might have drained the battery a bit.

Bushangels he used a new battery or charged it again for that flight. It's at 100% at the beginning

Really. Was thinking about getting one of these for my business, but I couldn't have a client wait around 40 minutes while I'm forced to update the software. You should be able to defer the update to a later time. It's like they saw the Windows 10 update model and said "yep, that's what we want to mimic".

thank you! its an impressive machine!it handles indoors extremely well too. have you tried that?

Yes I tried flying indoors, did not go well.... something interfered with the signal and got within 6" of hitting the wall before I could get it to land. Met a guy who owns a drone company and he suggested I look into FAA part 107...check out.... learn the legal rules of the road. Also he suggested I use an app called Airmap.... check it out in your app store. Take care!

If theres a way to skip it, I'm not aware of it. It wouldn't let me fly without updating. perhaps if you fly with your phone in airplane mode? Good question though, I'd love to hear if anyone else has run into that problem

I was in sport mode for most of the flight. I travels faster, but uses more power

Preach! I'm smarter and wiser, hahaha

thank you! yes it kept the video feed all the way to the ground, i was surprised!

its kind of addicting, I try and fly mine everyday, i get bummed when weather won't allow!

The settings were original. Thhis was back before dji put flight limits on the drones