Recent content by BMc

Just to confirm, are you suggesting I stick with an older FW? I just did the bird and Tx to 1.3.20 successfully and am about to jump straight to 1.8.80. Is this a proven FW? -edit, I don't do much other than roam around in full gps mode and snap pics. I hardly use any of the P3P's...

Good lord that was a fast response. Thank you! I had looked around a bit and hadn't noticed that thread however I haven't been active in months. Thanks again!

Good afternoon all, My P3P has been sitting and collecting dust for almost a year and I am going to bring my bird, controller & battery firmware up to date. Here is my question, the last update I did was v1.2.6 that was released back on 2015.06.15, do I need to first update to v1.3.20, then to...

It's all relative to how you are most comfortable holding the Tx. I like to hold mine so it is parallel to the ground. With that being said, you always want to have the flat plan of the antenna facing your Rx, not pointing directly at it like a spear heading to a target. All that said, I keep...

I record in 4k but only view in 1080p. I don't currently have any monitors or TV's capable of 4k. However without going into too much detail, 4k downscaled to 1080p looks a million times better than 1080p viewed in 1080p. When shot in 4k you capture 4 times the color data and that is carried...

Sorry, that would have been helpful. I live in western Lenexa - K10 & K7 area.

Without reading all of the posts, I 100% believe it needs to remain a function on the Phantom. If my bird, for whatever reason, should loose control and head towards a crowd or something that could be harmed, I would initiate CSC in a second to spare any injuries. Another thought is if it were...

I honestly don't understand how people keep doing this. I have only ascended at full throttle a couple of times and that was early on when I realized I needed to gain altitude to avoid a tree or something. Once you become mildly competent of your craft you will find you use very slight and...

I am curious to see how many people are in the KC area. Would love to meet up at a park or something.

Well, I suppose it a hobby shop gets an order for 500 P3's, the writing is on the wall. It's funny these can be considered disposable when I often joke that I have more than my first car in the air at any given point.

That's crazy. I am wondering if some of these are cheap enough to be considered as 'disposable' and just send them on a one way trip... How unfortunate this is already happening.

And there you have it! I haven't done any searching for it but it certainly a viable platform to exploit.

I actually was just talking to a neighbor about how these things will likely show up in the news (The P3) because it's not going to take long for drug smugglers to start flying drugs across the border. I flew a can of beer down to my neighbor for giggles and it flew just fine. So it carried...

Correct, he is saying it's not good to run them down to 20% battery life. As a rule, when I hit 30% and the alert goes off, I head back to land. I usually land with at least 25% left but it's not a big deal for me to leave those extra few minutes of flight time on the table.

Mine only took a few minutes. I highly recommend the 'cold IMU calibration' method. You basically get the bird a cool as you can (I placed mine on an AC vent for 30 minutes), get the controller/app up and going, slap the battery in and immediately calibrate the IMU on a dead flat surface...