Recent content by Emeye

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    My First Crash and post crash checks.

    Good news. My Phantom Lives to fly another day! I had to attack the compass with a magnet though as it would not calibrate. Yesterday, I think I had the perfect storm of borderline GPS, scrambled compass thank to subwoofer in the car boot Ms overconfidence! Thanks for everyone's feedback. :)
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    My First Crash and post crash checks.

    I suspect it could have been GPS related. I did have 6 satellites to start with. How does the Phantom cope with dropping satellites during flight? Does it go into Alti mode as soon as it has less than 6 or does it just get confused and try to cope with 5 satellites? I had been practicing...
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    My First Crash and post crash checks.

    I feel pretty dumb as I did wonder about the speaker, but thought a standard preflight calibration would do the job! The calibration is the one thing I am struggling to get my head around! I've read quite a few threads but still not sure. The note in the PC app for the compass say the mod...
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    My First Crash and post crash checks.

    Hi, this is my first post, unfortunately following depressing circumstances. I've had my Vision 2 plus quite a few weeks now and every weekend, apart from the one just gone when I had a sickness bug, I have had lots of successful, careful flights. Today, I updated the camera firmware to v1.3.0...