Xiaomi Mi Drone 4k - 393 euro including delivery

thund3rbird_

I was late to the party on this.. prob one of the last to order from ES warehouse

shipping estimate has been the same since the day I ordered:

Order Time: 2020-05-25 17:02:57
Version: Without FIMI Premium Care
Estimated to ship before July 10, 2020

as long as it arrives by the start of august I'm ok to wait

padair

Pulled trigger on Ali for 360e will see if top Cashback tracks.

garion

padair wrote: »

Pulled trigger on Ali for 360e will see if top Cashback tracks.

Any concerns about customs? That's the only thing holding me back from ordering from Ali.

padair

garion wrote: »

Any concerns about customs? That's the only thing holding me back from ordering from Ali.

Not going to worry about it, if I get stung then it costs more but I have the cash back to offset it. Fingers crossed though. It's still cheaper than a mavic air 2 or a mavic mini

garion

padair wrote: »

Not going to worry about it, if I get stung then it costs more but I have the cash back to offset it. Fingers crossed though. It's still cheaper than a mavic air 2 or a mavic mini

Where are you claiming cash back from?

bennyx_o

TopCashBack give 8.25% cash back on Aliexpress I believe

padair

bennyx_o wrote: »

TopCashBack give 8.5% cash back on Aliexpress I believe

Yep, that's the one. You have to go though their site to be able to collect. It's the first time that I have tried to use it. I checked the app and it is tracking at 26 pounds refund

MorganIRL

Anyone used or heard of the the site DJI.com . They have a Mavic mini for 399.. what am I missing, is it a good price or a dodgy site??? If I can get that drone for that price I'll cancel this one..

delly

MorganIRL wrote: »

Anyone used or heard of the the site DJI.com . They have a Mavic mini for 399.. what am I missing, is it a good price or a dodgy site??? If I can get that drone for that price I'll cancel this one..

I genuinely don't know if you're being sarcastic or serious?

tedpan

MorganIRL wrote:

Anyone used or heard of the the site DJI.com . They have a Mavic mini for 399.. what am I missing, is it a good price or a dodgy site??? If I can get that drone for that price I'll cancel this one..

That's the price and official site..! Go for the fly more combo - 499e

PabD

tedpan wrote: »

That's the price and official site..! Go for the fly more combo - 499e

if you have a student email address you can get 10% discount code if creating account with DJI.

MorganIRL

delly wrote: »

I genuinely don't know if you're being sarcastic or serious?

Showing my drone ignorance.. apologies if I upset u or you experienced feelings you hadn't felt ever before..

delly

MorganIRL wrote: »

Showing my drone ignorance.. apologies if I upset u or you experienced feelings you hadn't felt ever before..

No new feelings, as I said, I genuinely didn't know if you were one way or the other. The Mavic Mini is made by DJI, DJI.com is the official site, there couldn't be a less dodgy site to sell a Mavic Mini.

j@utis

I'm just wondering if anyone selling theirs Xiaomi drone in new condition (bought, received but changed their mind)?

pete6296

j@utis wrote: »

I'm just wondering if anyone selling theirs Xiaomi drone in new condition (bought, received but changed their mind)?

Hi. I foolishly lost my fimi x8 2020 but I have rc controller, 2 props and signal boosters if of anyone interest

tedpan

pete6296 wrote:

Hi. I foolishly lost my fimi x8 2020 but I have rc controller, 2 props and signal boosters if of anyone interest

Oh no, what happened?

pete6296

tedpan wrote: »

Oh no, what happened?

RC disconnected from drone and all went bad

tedpan

pete6296 wrote:

RC disconnected from drone and all went bad

Disaster..

Tweaky

pete6296 wrote: »

RC disconnected from drone and all went bad

Was the disconnect random or was it distance driven ? Seeing some reliability issues on another forum.

pete6296

Tweaky wrote: »

Was the disconnect random or was it distance driven ? Seeing some reliability issues on another forum.

Random. Flight log doesn't tell where it landed as all it shows is where it was disconnected. Gutted

banie01

pete6296 wrote: »

Random. Flight log doesn't tell where it landed as all it shows is where it was disconnected. Gutted

That's an absolute sickener!
Is there a local area FB group or something?
Could post a please return if found on that?

I'm a fan of labelmaker and adding phone numbers to my gear for just such an instance.

Tweaky

pete6296 wrote: »

Random. Flight log doesn't tell where it landed as all it shows is where it was disconnected. Gutted

I'm gutted for you. You went to a lot of effort to get yours

pete6296

banie01 wrote: »

That's an absolute sickener!
Is there a local area FB group or something?
Could post a please return if found on that?

I'm a fan of labelmaker and adding phone numbers to my gear for just such an instance.

Totally agree, that's a great idea and even a GPS tracker might be worth a few euro

pete6296

Tweaky wrote: »

I'm gutted for you. You went to a lot of effort to get yours

Waited weeks and as soon as I get it I pushed it to its limits but paid the price. What frustrated me most is losing connection with rc as I was simply trying to land it safely and collect. Have logged a call with fimi support

tedpan

pete6296 wrote:

Waited weeks and as soon as I get it I pushed it to its limits but paid the price. What frustrated me most is losing connection with rc as I was simply trying to land it safely and collect. Have logged a call with fimi support

Can you give us details? When you say pushed it to it's limits, how far/high did you fly? At what distance was it losing connection, what was the battery level, were you near any buildings or was it in an open park or beach? Sorry for all the questions, just trying to understand what happened. Whenever I've lost connection with my xiaomi it always returned home.

Hope you get support from fimi, guessing it's a long shot though..

Def_IRL

pete6296 wrote: »

Waited weeks and as soon as I get it I pushed it to its limits but paid the price. What frustrated me most is losing connection with rc as I was simply trying to land it safely and collect. Have logged a call with fimi support

Sorry to hear that Pete, surprised the Return to Home didn't kick in after 2-3 seconds of singal loss.
Did you fly it close to any Microwave antennas, high-voltage lines , or mobile masts perhaps, as they can cause major interference affecting RC radio transmission?

pete6296

tedpan wrote: »

Can you give us details? When you say pushed it to it's limits, how far/high did you fly? At what distance was it losing connection, what was the battery level, were you near any buildings or was it in an open park or beach? Sorry for all the questions, just trying to understand what happened. Whenever I've lost connection with my xiaomi it always returned home.

Hope you get support from fimi, guessing it's a long shot though..

I flew it to a range of approx 8km and it returned to home but at about 5km left I noticed battery at 22% so I wanted to land but that's when it lost connection with rc.

pete6296

Def_IRL wrote: »

Sorry to hear that Pete, surprised the Return to Home didn't kick in after 2-3 seconds of singal loss.
Did you fly it close to any Microwave antennas, high-voltage lines , or mobile masts perhaps, as they can cause major interference affecting RC radio transmission?

It did kick in but I wanted to land when battery low but it lost connection to rc. Not close to any areas of interference that I was aware of.

tedpan

pete6296 wrote:

I flew it to a range of approx 8km and it returned to home but at about 5km left I noticed battery at 22% so I wanted to land but that's when it lost connection with rc.

pete6296 wrote:

It did kick in but I wanted to land when battery low but it lost connection to rc. Not close to any areas of interference that I was aware of.

Ah ok, you really pushed it, I haven't even seen a mavic get that distance in Ireland...

There must have been interference if you weren't in a park or beach. Also, losing connection at 5kms is totally normal.

pete6296

tedpan wrote: »

Ah ok, you really pushed it, I haven't even seen a mavic get that distance in Ireland...

There must have been interference if you weren't in a park or beach. Also, losing connection at 5kms is totally normal.

I know, kicking myself. Thought I cud land it though but when rc disconnected I was stuck