Recent content by GoofyBird

Mark I suggest you buy a P3A that has not been updated firmware wise. No gps controls initiated, there are a lot of guys who have decided not to do updates for that exact reason. No update, no geofencing. Fly where you chose

Hi Buhler, where in Summerville? I'm over in Arbor Walk off of Bacons Bridge.

Solid, just read your issue and your problem wasn't due to cold weather, it was because the battery had already gone into auto-discharge mode and you took off without charging it back up. 65% is the level the battery will read when it has auto discharged but for some reason it will go into...

Hi Lam, I had a similar experience with DJI repair, they fixed my bird and sent it back but I could never get an explanation on what they found. I guess they figure you aren't play, so they ain't saying, lol.

Thanks Meta, I will check that, for now I have swapped my camera to my other body and everything seems to be working fine.

Hi thanks for replying but how would that account for the message coming up in flight? OK but when I go into sensors there is no data for the compass, shouldn't it have some sort of reading?

While flying this morning I got a red "compass error" message and after landing the compass won't calibrate, this is the exact spot I have been flying from for 5 months and where the compass calibrated just before the flight today. Any suggestions?

Syma X5, I bought one and used it for a couple months before buying the P3A, if you can control this thing in the wind, the Phantom is a piece of cake. It only costs $50, get a charger and extra batteries for $16 since the battery is only good for about 5mins. You can crash it from 60' with 0...

Hi Hyper, I have a body only P3A that I am looking to sell, Story is I attempted to add aftermarket lights and shorted out the board. I figured DJI wouldn't warranty it so I purchased a body with the board and motors and VPS. When later I had video feed issues I decided to send the original unit...

You don't fly much or very far.

Ok here is what's happening, you leave the battery unused and it auto discharges to 60-65%, you then put it in the bird and start flying, now critically low voltage comes up and the bird starts to auto land. You can override the landing by either switching out of GPS or just engage RTH and then...

How many flights you have on the bird Jason?

If you haven't seen them before I would use it again and see if this is the case next time, anomalies are a given with all this tech. Unfortunately they result in a bird crashing but if it was me I would fly it again and see how it goes, these batteries "normally" die slowly. I have one cell on...

Jason try it both ways, but as you might have read, I ended up sending mine in.

Sorry but I had to send mine in and let DJI fix it and they won't tell me what the fix was. Do try all the suggestions you see on this forum because they have worked for others. Good luck.