Recent content by Gangapat

Not tried anything further out than 150m. I could certainly imagine flying under FPV regulations and having a spotter. Then the pilot can split his attention between the map on the tablet and the FPV view in the right eye. P

A short mini review for the vufine display. If you haven't seen these, the vufine is a monocular display with 1 mini-screen that takes any 720p HDMI output. It's small and portable and clips to your glasses or sunglasses. I got this for my P3P in the hopes that it would help survey flying. They...

I've flown drones from hubsans and racers to pro survey drones worth more than my annual salary. Out of all that, the only drone I haven't crashed (yet!)in 8 years of flying for both fun and work is my P3P. No drone is perfect, but the P3 is as reliable as I've ever experienced. P

Updating the firmware on a new P3S with 3 batts. First run went fine. Now I'm trying to cycle through the other 2 batts. The DJI go app won't recognise that I switched my wifi and says 'device diaconnected'. It displays the P3S wifi despite me definitely having switched. Has this happened to...

UK law is clear on this: if you're under 7kg, like all phantoms, you can't fly within 150m of a congested area. London is the most congested city in the UK so without a permit this flight is illegal. Mind you there is a slim chance that a permit could have been obtained for this. Otherwise this...

Thanks all, I am Indeed old school, been flying since 2008 when these were called UAVs. I research 3D mapping from drones and I teach a this at University. Flew in many cool places like Svalbard, the Atacama desert and at 10000 feet up in the Swiss Alps. But I did start on a fixed wing, so I...

Got a P3s for my students as a low cost intro. They'll need to tame this before they get anywhere near the P4. So about stills, is there a way to configure the S switches to trigger a still photo? The pilot in me doesn't like letting go of the sticks in flight. And the time lapse is too slow...

I've flown drones worth anything from 1000 to close to 100 000 dollars. The functionality and reliability you get with the phantom 3 is amazing. I've flown expensive plane-type birds and have had to repair them daily and I've crashed a lot. This new line of drones at the 1000-1500$ price point...

This is a problem we mentioned here before. Don't panic. The app will reboot and in the meantime you have full flight control with the sticks. The rig will stay in the same flight mode so in gps the hover will be just as good as usual. The app will reboot on it's own in a few seconds. Since...

Just singed up, from Durham in the UK. I'm taking a geography field trip to the Alps in September. I research drone photogrammetry and we'll be using a P3 to get some elevation models for student projects. I'd be interested to see if this app helps the flight planning.

The circle orbit in a hover is definitely a compass calibration problem. My vendor calls it the 'toilet bowl effect'. I've seen it happen after travelling a long way, if you fly without calibrating, you get the toilet bowl. Just do the calibration dance. It'll fix it.

Definitely bit you really have to read the manual in detail and learn how to use all the settings in the app correctly. The fine print is important here! I experimented a few times to gain some trust in it. I even went as far as unplugging the tablet and hitting the RTH button during flight...

If possible, I'd put that battery back into the P3 and start everything up. Then go in the battery option and check the 4 cells. I can't see how this is pilot error and sounds like a cell error. Does the lipo feel swollen? Most drone batteries don't come in such a slick package. One of the...

Is there any digital image stabilisation applied to stills and video? Or is it just mechanical stabilisation from the gimbal? Even the raw files seem to have a bleeding effect around some contrasted edges.

Happened again. I was just up. Everything as usual except that I had a slow SD card. I was experimenting with the x5 stills bursts and it was taking a while to write. I just hovered while it wrote the files. Then I got a NO SIGNAL in red on top of the app. But I did on fact have signal because I...