New DJI Mavic Mini

[thebraketester]

Can I borrow you?

[Old Man Peabody]

thebraketester said:

Can I borrow you?

You can, but I'm not cheap

Just checked Argos, no stock in stores and not available for delivery.

I think the stock alerts are coming through for the standalone mini, but they aren't differentiating between the Fly More which doesn't seem to have :ahem: landed yet.

[thebraketester]

Got one on reserve at Argos, so time to go and see if a) the even have them and b) if they are actually the fly more kits.

[Old Man Peabody]

thebraketester said:

Got one on reserve at Argos, so time to go and see if a) the even have them and b) if they are actually the fly more kits.

Good luck

[ecsrobin]

thebraketester said:

Got one on reserve at Argos, so time to go and see if a) the even have them and b) if they are actually the fly more kits.

Showing no stock everywhere I look for the fly more.

[Old Man Peabody]

ecsrobin said:

thebraketester said:

Got one on reserve at Argos, so time to go and see if a) the even have them and b) if they are actually the fly more kits.

Showing no stock everywhere I look for the fly more.

Same here. It's not due until a few weeks after the standalone mini from what I read, so I suppose I just need to be patient

[thebraketester]

There she is. Quick test flight. On my way to work now. Booooooooo

[gregs656]

There are tons of Sparks on eBay over here now.

The mini is going to be a real winner I think.

I want one.

[Old Man Peabody]

thebraketester said:

There she is. Quick test flight. On my way to work now. Booooooooo

Nice

Standalone or Fly More?

Surely you can phone in sick?

[thebraketester]

Fly more. Took a while to get it up in the air. A combination of updates and not reading the fking manual.

Edited by thebraketester on Wednesday 13th November 15:09

[ecsrobin]

Old Man Peabody said:

thebraketester said:

There she is. Quick test flight. On my way to work now. Booooooooo

Nice

Standalone or Fly More?

Surely you can phone in sick?

Surely fly it round work?

[Old Man Peabody]

thebraketester said:

Fly more. Took a while to get it up in the air. A combination of updates and not reading the fking manual.

Edited by thebraketester on Wednesday 13th November 15:09

Excellent work. Still showing zero stock everywhere for me but will keep hunting.

Have fun

[thebraketester]

There are a few dotted around. My guess is that the Argos shops are being drip fed them. I think I had the only one at Watford. Harrow and Wembley showing stock.

[eltawater]

thebraketester said:

There are a few dotted around. My guess is that the Argos shops are being drip fed them. I think I had the only one at Watford. Harrow and Wembley showing stock.

Excellent Would be interested to see how you get on

[Old Man Peabody]

Managed to reserve a Fly More at an Argos fairly local to me so fingers crossed it's there when I try and pick it up later

[thebraketester]

[red_slr]

<sad face>

Just had an email from drones direct

Please accept our sincere apologies, due to circumstances beyond our control blablabla your new delivery date will be the 18/11/2019.

Oh well at least its on the way, ish.

[thebraketester]

Well that’s my first proper flight done. Used all three batteries, but I was swapping them at about 50%.



Taken from 100m

It’s quite disconcerting that after a certain height or distance you cannot hear it. I’m sure it’s just something to get used to.

[Lazermilk]

I've just put my spark up for sale also, so if it sells I will be getting a Mavic Mini instead, the low weight is a huge deal for me, here in Austria you have to take a yearly test that costs something like 300 euros to get the license and then need insurance etc on top, this Mini should avoid the license at least and I can use it more often here than the spark then.

Shame it loses the gesture, collision detection and follow modes but can live without them really, most of the time I flew the spark in manual mode anyway.

Better camera and gimbal are plus points over the spark too.

[Old Man Peabody]

thebraketester said:

Well that’s my first proper flight done. Used all three batteries, but I was swapping them at about 50%.

It’s quite disconcerting that after a certain height or distance you cannot hear it. I’m sure it’s just something to get used to.

Good work. Just picked mine up. Looking forward to getting airborne