Recent content by dirtbird

It has been years since I've used my P3A, but it has been extremely well taken care of and it doesn't have a scratch on it. I thought I would break it out just to upgrade all the firmware and make sure all was good, but I've run into a problem. I charged all the batteries completely and then...

Want. Brilliant.

I thought I might resurface this discussion, but I'm in the same boat. I'm going to be in Banff in March and want to fly my drone somewhere nearby. Over near Canmore, which is only about 15 minutes away, appears to be a number of places that are just outside the park limits. Yes, it may not...

We'll see. This is just my two cents and probably worth less, but from what I've seen in numerous videos is disappointing to me. I only have a P3A, but I find the level of detail provided in my own captures (far from professional quality) to be much more appealing than what I've seen from the...

What a totally missed opportunity in this review. I find this guy to be hysterical, and typically, he has done a great job with covering the things I'm curious about, but he seems to be holding on to the fact that the Mavic's camera is somehow better than the P4. Yes, it beats the P4 in low...

I just noticed this video came online too and he did do a great job with it. However, I completely disagree with his affinity for the auto-focus and I feel like DJI got it backwards. The Mavic is designed to get it off the ground quick and they did an incredible job with that, but now I have to...

I couldn't agree more. I thought the Neistat video looked pretty bad (very soft). I still can't say it was really a great comparison in the DigitalRev video either. This will obviously be coming though. Once people start to get their hands on the Mavic there will be plenty of A/B comparisons...

Just so I'm clear, even if you don't have a map but the home point is recorded you should be fine. I guess the GPS coordinates get logged as normal and in the event the bird needs to return to home it would do so in the exact same way it would if it had a map. Correct? I guess having the map...

Yea, that looks pretty significant. Since it is new and you haven't crashed it I would consider taking it back to where you bought it. They could just exchange the whole bird. Second to that you could consider upgrading the firmware. It could be a software glitch, but I sort of doubt it. Outside...

If yours is dropping without aggressive flying then I suspect it is likely a bad motor on the gimbal and it could need to be replaced or repaired.

Mine was pretty minor and it took aggressive flying for it to drop so I simply avoid aggressive flying. The P3 isn't the P4 and I would say the P4 is more capable of handling aggressive flying. But if I do want to push things for a bit I simply don't worry about video footage during that time.

Crocodile Dundee called. He wants his catch phrase back. :p

Yea, I had a bit more success with this last night. I think the thing I was probably missing was changing the HEADING MODE from NORTH to COURSE. Once I did this it became a little more intuitive about where the bird might be since it gives you a full 360 degree circle and it specifically...

Thanks, but I find that hard to believe. If this was the case they wouldn't have so many settings for 360 degrees. A simple follow me mode doesn't really need to know anything about angles, it would simply follow from directly behind. But that isn't what I see in the app. There are settings...

I'm not sure whether I am doing something wrong or if there is something wrong with my drone, but I can't seem to figure out how to get the Litchi app to Follow Me directly from the side (90 degrees) and say out in front and to the right (maybe 30 degrees). No matter what I have with my...