Recent content by Trawlerman

I was looking at some video from my P3P and what I see bugs me. I'm not up on photography at all so this might sound kind of dumb. If I walk outside and look at what I see real life and compare it to the video, the video looks like Iit's 2 to 3 times farther away than what I see in reality...

HI! I was reading this thread and saw all these posters getting 2 miles out easily. I live in a rural area with houses every half mile or so. I usually start losing signal around 5000ft feet out. I've gotten out 5500ft feet once with signal dropping out quite a bit. Last week I lost the drone...

I got out today. 15 degrees f. I kept the batteries warm in the house. Although I didn't pay much attention, the batteries showed little difference in time from when I was flying with the temperatures in the 50s. The batteries showed the same steady decline I've experienced when it's warmer. A...

For those of you who have flown in the cold. Do the batteries drop power at the same rate over time or do you get a sudden drop at some point?

thanks Eagle54. Airplane mode was off. I was under the Impression that wifi mode had to be on.

Hi. Newb here. I had my controller on and took a look at the channel bar in Auto. I live in a fairly rural area although within a mile of a cellular tower. Anyways, the channel bar dances like Christmas lights. Individual channels going from stable to unstable dozens a times a minute. Even...

Do LiPo batteries generate any heat while they discharge? I haven't really noticed much but any would help during cold weather flight..

Thanks guys. It's just something about older guys that never got too deep into computers. Oh yeah, and the 1200 bucks I threw at the P3P. Makes me a little squeamish to start messing with it's brain. That, and I've read countless threads about DJI's notoriously bad support.... It seems to fly...

Hello All, Another greenhorn here. The last thing I put in the air was a control line plane back in the 70's. Things have changed a bit since... Anyways I find this forum a wealth of advice and felt I should become a part of it. Being older and quite computer illiterate (what's copy and...