Recent content by murraymacdonald

It shouldn't flash green at any speed if the home point hasn't been locked. It should also chirp.

As other posters have said they have observed it not registering the Home Point after compass calibration, and as I had relocated by 300 miles I did the right thing a re-calibrated it. As for Michigan_PI, you RTFM. It says "Home Point: When the Phantom Enters "Ready to Fly" from the 'Ready...

So you finally admit the product doesn't operate as documented. Section 4 (page 27 in V1.4) titled "4 Failsafe Function" says "Home Point: When the Phantom Enters 'Ready to Fly' from the 'Ready to Fly status (non-GPS)', the GPS coordinates will be recorded and set as the home point." ALTHOUGH...

The product is unreliable and doesn't function as documented. What is clear is that it doesn't always reliably set the home point when it boots up. You're not raining on my parade. Expecting a product to operate as documented isn't a parade, it's a reasonable expectation. I work for a...

Michigan_PI. Come on dude. 1) There is no URL on page 2 of the User Manual (V1.1) shipped with the Phantom 2 Vision Plus other than DJI.com. If you download the updated manual, the URL printed on page 2 of version 1.4 of the manual produces a 404. Try it yourself...

Latest firmware. I updated it last week. I read all the manuals, watched their videos, and followed their instructions exactly. As I had moved my flight location 300 miles I re-calibrated the compass. It flew well in GPS mode for the first 2 minutes, then it flew away never to be seen...

I had successfully calibrated to compass and it wasn't flying a route. I was flying around well controlled in GPS mode (with 7 satellites) before it flew away. Before I took off it had been slow green blinking for about 5 minutes. Where is this fast 8 blink stuff you are talking about...

Some overly certain people have suggested that taking off after 5 minutes when it was slow green blinking was pilot error, and that fast green blinking was required, but let's look at the documentation: 1) The DJI Quick Start Guide part #8 titled "Taking Off" says: * Power on the remote...

The question is why doesn't it home lock when it has detected 6+ satellites and the status LEDs are green before take-off? It's a software design flaw. If you have decent GPS such that it shows the slow blink Green LED status and tells me it has 7 satellites on the app, what is the excuse...

By calling DJI support I got answers to few of my questions. I thought I'd share them here. 1) Yes it will try to fly home 300 miles. 2) When the battery gets exhausted it will try to land regardless of where it is. 3) If it comes within 5 miles of an airport while flying home it will...

The Find My Phantom feature of the app is showing me where I flew it last week (over 300 miles away). How can that be given that I had 7 satellites for minutes of flying and had slow green flashing for many minutes before taking off? Would it really try to fly 300 miles home?

The Find My Phantom feature of the app is showing me where I flew it last week (over 300 miles away). How can that be given that I had 7 satellites for minutes for 3 minutes of flying and had slow flashing green for many minutes before taking off? Would it really try to fly 300 miles home...

So if I understand you correctly, it likely set itself down gracefully, even though the ground was 300-400 feet lower than the launch point. I suggest everyone write their phone number on their drone in sharpie. Sure wishing I had...

Hi all, I just had my Phantom 2 Vision Plus fly away on me. It's been over 40 minutes so it's no longer in the air. I made sure I had a good GPS lock before I took off, had 7 satellites, and the compass had just been calibrated. It indicated "Ready to Fly" by slow blinking green, but a...