Recent content by DaceX80

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On December 6th I purchased a Phantom 4 Pro from directly from DJI. On December 14th the quadcopter arrived and on that very day, I was showing the P4P to my family. The was hovering at 17 meters when it lost all power without warning and fell from the sky. I was incredibly disappointed that I...

I did not know a lot of this, but I do have a spot up in the hills where I calibrate and I don't have compass errors anymore. Thanks for the info :-)

I asked one of the guys who got me in to aerial photography, "What piece of advice would current you, give younger you when you were starting out." and he said (more or less) "Everything with a mechanical component breaks down. If you are lucky, your drone will break down when its on the ground...

The only real thing that ever truly scares me is compass errors. Trying to get a P3P back from over the water with a compass error...... oh man

Ok so whats happening is the aircraft is pitching so far forward that the obstacle avoidance sensors are rendered useless. Thats what the message is telling you. Why its telling you that, I have no idea

RC Signal loss is absolutely fine once you have your RTH settings set correctly, which you should also check every flight. In terms of the P4P just dropping without warning, yeah it was a real eye opener. Thankfully I was shown the ropes when it comes to flying UAV's by a very experienced...

This is the log viewer Phantom Log Viewer - PhantomHelp.com So I have a routine every time I use a quadcopter. Firstly I never transport the UAV with the battery in place, so I know without a doubt the battery was securely in place. Secondly I have battery info hotkeyed to the rear left button...

Background: In December I purchased a P4P, on the first day of operation it lost all power while hovering at 17 meters. The UAV simply died in mid air without any warning, on a calm mild day. One thing that caught my eye as I collected up the bits of my brand new copter is that the battery was...

In my experience GPS loss while not common, is certainly not rare either so my advice is to practice in Atti mode at every opportunity. Its actually not that difficult and probably my flight mode of choice when I am looking at shooting exceptionally smooth footage or transitioning from indoors...

P3 Pro and P4 Pro user, southwest Donegal. Fortunate enough that part of my job is getting paid to fly the P3P