# Finally took the bird out at night

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**Category:** Photos by Drone\
**Created:** [30 October 2020 18:25 UTC](https://greyarro.ws/t/finally-took-the-bird-out-at-night/21384 "2020-10-30T18:25:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![PingSpike](https://greyarro.ws/user_avatar/greyarro.ws/pingspike/32/7393_2.png) [@PingSpike](https://greyarro.ws/u/PingSpike)\
**Post date:** [31 October 2020 14:18 UTC](https://greyarro.ws/t/finally-took-the-bird-out-at-night/21384/20 "2020-10-31T14:18:13Z")

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> [@Mind\_the\_gap](#):
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> I never actually paid attention to it. Trusting blindly the GPS (🤦‍♂️).

You might want to read this:

> [@The importance of taking off with a decent number of satellites](https://greyarro.ws/t/the-importance-of-taking-off-with-a-decent-number-of-satellites/10994):
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> My impatience got the better of me today and I took off with only seven satellites locked on. I’ll be fine I thought… I can fly… It’s not something I’ve ever done before. Not something I’ll ever do again. Here’s lucky tale… The Mavic Mini seems to take a while to lock on to satellites. It’ll find 5 or 6 quickly but then seems to take minutes to increase. Anyway, I took off with the sat count still red, hovered for a minuted, saw the RTH point had updated and clicked the map to view it to …

And then pay more attention 🤣

I do 😬

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