Recent content by Billie Nelson

  1. Billie Nelson

    Extended Range After-Market Phantom 3 Battery

    I will report back when I've tested this battery in one of my P3S drones. I have high hopes for Ali Express batteries for DJI drones because I purchased a "hump-back" extra range battery for my Mavic 1 Pro from Ali Express, and was astounded to see the round-trip distance covered by the M1P...
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    Extended Range After-Market Phantom 3 Battery

    This vote of confidence for PowerExtra P3S batteries is appreciated Chris, and your note of caution about FlyHi brand batteries for the same drone is a timely insight I hadn't encountered before. The absence of any user reviews on the P3S battery whose Ali Express link I posted above is a red...
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    Extended Range After-Market Phantom 3 Battery

    I own three old Phantom 3 Standards and one Phantom 3 Pro. Given that I fly Litchi autonomous missions exclusively, I am always looking for after-market batteries that offer an extended range compared to the original DJI battery for the Phantom 3 series drones. I just stumbled on this battery...
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    Greetings from wet and windy west coast of Norway

    Greetings and hallucinations Viking of The Windy City. The Phantom 2 is the direct ancestor of all the wondrous machines that followed from the engineers at DJI and other drone manufacturers. That said, I must make an honorable mention of the Phantom 3 series, of which I've owned several, as a...
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    Mavic 2 Zoom focus problem

    Had this same exact thing happen with my Mavic 1 Pro. I would touch the screen during a flight and the focus would sharpen for a few moments before going fuzzy again. Turned out it was a substandard micro SD card that was the cause of that strange refusal to focus. Replaced the SD card with a...
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    Stored for six months.

    The light responses you describe do seem normal, so steady as she goes, Cap'n, and let us know how the bird flies when both drone and controller are fully charged.
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    Range issue

    Oh well, so much for my attempt to convert a new inductee to the cult. With Litchi I generally launch the drone, then switch off my controller and go chill indoors until 5 minutes before the ETA, when I step outside for a manual landing, so controller range has become almost irrelevant for me...
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    Range issue

    Young Grasshopper all roads lead to Litchi. Yes, you heard me right - I said Litchi. You see, with Litchi, your worries about the range of your Phantom 3S will evaporate like swirling mist from the glassy surface of a pristine mountain lake as the sun rises above the towering pines to herald a...
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    Phantom 3 Advanced with DJI GS Not doing waypoint mission.

    My long reply vanished into the ether. Litchi is a snap to use. I create 60-waypoint flights in under 15 minutes and have logged over 3,000 miles of full auto flight missions using it thus far. Here is the Litc h i forum link below. https://forum.flylitchi.com/
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    Phantom 3 Advanced with DJI GS Not doing waypoint mission.

    Have no fear Young Grasshopper. For the Phantom or Mavic 2 and below series, Litchi is by far the most versatile AND intuitive waypoint planning facility on God's green Earth. All roads lead to Litchi. Turn your back on pretenders to the throne and proceed accordingly. The Oracle has spoken.
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    Working with Litchi & Fimi Palm 2 Pro

    Wait a minute that is not a Mavic 2 Pro but a Phantom 4 painted black. Heard that passing reference to a Mavic 2 Pro and assumed that was the bird you had aloft in this clip,
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    Working with Litchi & Fimi Palm 2 Pro

    For a minute there I thought Litchi was now compatible with Fimi X8 drones. I own the year 2020 Fimi X8 which I barely ever use because the Fimi waypoint facility is really cumbersome to program in comparison to using Litchi. My dream combination would be to have Litchi work with the Fimi X8...
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    Litchi: possible to change flight speed at waypoints?

    It just so happens that I own a Mavic 2 Pro and I can confirm that variations in airspeed can be assigned during the creation of Litchi waypoint missions.
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    Litchi: possible to change flight speed at waypoints?

    Your Phantom 4 Pro can indeed vary its speed in accordance with the speed settings you assign to each successive waypoint. If there is a large difference in speed between two consecutive waypoints, the drone may not reach its target speed due to inertia and momentum, but if you make those speed...