Recent content by Billie Nelson

This diagnosis is appreciated, fellas. I also thank you for the caution, CaptainMileHigh, to use only an OEM cable from DJI bearing part number 49. I'll now place an order for this cable.

First thing tomorrow morning, I'll give this idea a try, Captain Mile High, and I thank you kindly for this mention of a possible cause for the signal loss. I installed an ArgTex antenna mod on the controller of this drone, but it worked fine for years of trouble-free flying, so I'm pretty sure...

My old Phantom 3 Pro flies perfectly, and the camera works fine except for the way the camera view randomly and intermittently tilts at a steep angle in which the horizon appears skewed by as much as 30 degrees to the horizontal. Sometimes the camera jumps back to its normal level horizon...

My trusty P3S, which covered over 2,000 miles of autonomous Litchi waypoint missions, fell into disuse when I moved with the times and bought used Mavic drones that I then began to fly exclusively. When I recently went back to the P3S and sent it on a 6-mile round-trip Litchi waypoint mission...

If you have Litchi already, I suggest trying the drone with Litchi rather than with DJI-Go . If you don't have Litchi, then it's $25 price tag is well worthwhile, because you can send that Phantom 3 on waypoint missions covering distances of up to 6 miles round trip.

Drone Hacks has a good reputation and is priced the same as No Limit Drones, which I have used for a couple of my drones. Both are good at what they do

500 meters is way up there. That is 1,500 feet, and very little of the ground detail can be seen at that height. I rarely fly any of my drones above 150 feet AGL unless there are cellphone towers around, in which case I set my RTH height for 260 feet AGL. I love nothing better than seeing...

I didn't realize that. I failed to notice the results you shared here

A subscription to Air Data is pricey at $70 annually, but that website, in addition to recording flight logs, does offer highly detailed analysis of drones and their batteries that exceeds the level of detail offered by DJI.

I'm tagging along to seek answers also because a year ago I bought a Phantom 3 Standard, and haven't yet been able to link it with its own controller, or indeed with any other controller, since I do have a few spare P3S controllers lying about

With the Phantom 3 Pro and a few other models, leaving them unpowered for a few months can prove sufficient for the erasure of memory to occur on the drone. That data loss could prevent a Phantom 3 Pro from taking off, and calls for a rather involved process to restore normalcy. I own a...

Beautifully written sir. I have on occasion found that in formulating a response to a fellow drone operator's question, I improve my own understanding of the concept I am trying to describe.

I am proud to say I have never once in any drone-related forum responded to a newbie question by suggesting that the answer can be found by "reading the manual". I always assume that the person asking the question has looked through the manual and is only seeking clarification because the...

For DJI's older drones, all "firmware updates" should be avoided like a destitute inlaw because their SOLE purpose is to impose yet more restrictions that limit where such old drones can be flown. If it ain't broke, then don't "fix" it with a Trojan Horse "firmware update". I cannot think of...

After some deep reflection on this resounding victory for freedom, my considered opinion is as follows : Yeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaw !