I just came back from a couple of days at a favorite resort in Northern California where I tried flying my Mavic Pro line-of-site toward a mountain that was maybe 8 miles away. Stock Mavic Pro with settings in DJI Go 4 that allowed me to change distance and height limitations, and using my iPad Mini 2 running DJI Go 4 with camera view. Flew just shy of 3 miles away and maximum altitude from point of launch about 1200 feet. But remember that the legal maximum flight altitude of the bird is 400' AGL. My flight path was ascending in such a manner that I likely was never illegal.
As I was approaching 16,000' horizontal distance from my launch point my battery was showing about 70% remaining. Though surface winds were calm I took the conservative choice to turn around and head home because of uncertainty of winds aloft, though I would have had a tail wind helping. I was in P mode with ground speed showing at 22 MPH.
Video recording of the flight was excellent at 2.7k 4000p. I noticed that the entire mp4 recording of the flight of about 18 minutes was broken into two files, the first just shy of 4GB and the second around 1.7GB. So I guess that the DJI video has a maximum file size of 4GB before rollover to another file.
Just my fresh FYI for those of you with other P or Mavic series drones who are going for distance and maybe recording the flight.
As I was approaching 16,000' horizontal distance from my launch point my battery was showing about 70% remaining. Though surface winds were calm I took the conservative choice to turn around and head home because of uncertainty of winds aloft, though I would have had a tail wind helping. I was in P mode with ground speed showing at 22 MPH.
Video recording of the flight was excellent at 2.7k 4000p. I noticed that the entire mp4 recording of the flight of about 18 minutes was broken into two files, the first just shy of 4GB and the second around 1.7GB. So I guess that the DJI video has a maximum file size of 4GB before rollover to another file.
Just my fresh FYI for those of you with other P or Mavic series drones who are going for distance and maybe recording the flight.