Recent content by Steve Youles

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    Drone "Hardshells" or other compact travel solutions?

    True just sharing as it took a lot of research and frustrating calls to airlines and border protection agencies to dig out the facts. They dont make it easy and hopefully i can save others some pain. Last thing you want is a ruined holiday because a jobsworth who doesnt know their trade stops...
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    Ignorant People Make Me Wonder Why I Bother?

    I got one similar incident shortly after buying my P4 which really put me off fly anywhere with people at all. Some moody woman complaining about it being noisy. I fle a 4min mission 500m out from the beach over the sea at 50m alt! A young couple nearby were stunned at her walking 500m to...
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    Why would you update FW? I probably wont

    Totally agree. If the Developers fully documented things clearly and in simple language so that users could make properly informed decisions there wouldn't be an issue. (DJI in this case, but this applies to all of them in my opinion) As it its really a gamble every time. Hence people's growing...
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    Horizon Tilt

    On P4 the C1 & 2 buttons are labelled and are opposite to that described for the P3 by MikeJ, also the thumb wheel dial is on the left. That said, this suggested solution did not work for me on my P4 despite many tries. Eventually, I switched back to the DJI Go App from Litchi and did an IMU...
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    Advise to a newbee drone pilot using the phantom 4

    This is such good advice, absolutley spot on. as a newbie all I can do is 100% confirm this as sound advice. I practiced in a playing field and got a little over confident.. one wrong joystick manouver later when playing around with the orbit feature ... hit a tree (thought I was changing speed...