Recent content by Hondo76251

sorry, should work now...

I'd say No, don't sweat it, but that's must my opinion... Like I said, I've had it quite a few times and I've never had a problem. I'm still flying...

Forgive me if I missed something, read most of the post, but saw a response about "ATTI mode" I get a compass error quite often. Many of my flying locations are covered in iron rock (which is magnetic) Needless to say, I get the error quite often. My solution has always been to switch to atti...

Spot for 5 batteries, controller w/mod, drone, i-pad + sun visor, charger, lightning cable... and that's just the main compartment, its got probably 15+ smaller compartments in the rest of the pack...

I got the 511 pack from Drone world. Its A+ in my book. To the military/Tacti-Cool crowd the 511 gear is well known, high quality, good equipment. Adding foam to a 511 pack to carry a drone only makes sense. For an easier fix, a good hot knife kit will cut/shape foam to fit just about anything...

P3P 4K w/range mod in 511 pack

I got a "Loose or missing prop" warning the other day was well... I slowed to a hover, did a slow 360, a few zig-zags, and continued flying... Didn't get it again. It was windy and I was flying hard so that's what I blamed it on. After some thought I'm betting I have a slightly unbalanced...

I've had this message a few times. My friend (also a P3P 4k) has had it, once while we were flying together we were both getting the message. I fly in low temps quite a bit so I figured that is part of it (coldest day was about 15 degrees F) I also tend to fly pretty hard. On colder days I hover...

I have a Drone World range extender Drone World's Range Extender Antenna System: How to Maximize the Phantom 3's Range Its probably not worth the $$$ but it does seem to work well and it doesn't void the warranty. (the main reason I went with it vs other, possibly better, definitely cheaper...

I have the Trackimo but it doesn't seem to work out here in the boonies... I took it with me when I went to town and it worked fine but I can't get it get a signal out here (GPS or Cell)

Wind is the biggest factor I think. I have yet to test how it affects your max range (and maybe it doesn't... at least going straight into the wind and straight back, flying crosswind will suck power both out and back) but it sure makes it harder to guestimate how far you'll be able to go...

I can get about 17-19 min on a battery. That's what I use to determine how far out I can go. In no wind I can go out about 8 min and have 8-10 min to get back. Of course, it takes some practice to get good at guessing how the wind will affect your flight times. In a light breeze I can head into...

That's no joke! I already know I can out-fly my battery life but I'm pretty sure I can break 6 miles... ;) This Phantom is great but I really bought to use for photography but now I have the LR-FPV bug! I'm going to leave the Phantom (mostly) unmolested and just build an FPV airplane....

The day we did this my buddy flew his completely stock P3P along with mine. This was an ideal day and an ideal location. He made 3.5 miles! I've got the "DroneWorld" antenna mod on mine. I still had good signal at 4.2 miles but was worried about battery life. My buddy made 3.5 miles and landed...

Max distance: 22130.2 Total flight ended up being about 43,000 or so