Greetings All,
I am trying to "get back on the horses" after my P3P disaster. (Self induced apparently).
I received my brand spanking new P4P this week. I know it is a vastly different animal than the old P3P. But after today, my third actual flight. I am a wee bit nervous.
And I will post logs asap.
I started with a mostly full battery, I had played with camera settings a bit. I launched and took it up to around 20 feet and about the same away from the HP, and let it come to a hover. The camera started flicking straight down. It would just set normal for a few seconds then it would point straight down and then right back up. Maybe it was trying to set a home point, I'm not sure. I need to verify if I had precision landing actuated, if I did it was not intentional.
Then I started a run where I took it up about 100 feet or so and sent it out at full throttle. It seemed liked it wuold slow down and then speed back up. I really didn't like that. There was wind, but not that much.
But I flew it around till the low battery warning came on at 30 % and came home. As I was descending it would come down very slow, then speed up, then slow down again. When it got to 15 or 20 feet AGL it dropped pretty darn fast for a second or two. Enough to pucker me up a bit.
And then there's the new battery that don't seem to want to charge too.
I am nervous coming off of a hard impact with the older drone, and I have not gotten comfortable with all of the new firmware and sensors. And this behavior being so completely different from the P3P is killing my confidence.
I did all the firmware updates to drone and controller right out of the box. But the batteries and even the charging tray need upgrades? Is that correct? ( And I did try the tray. Single, and car charger on the battery. ) The one that came with the drone does fine. The extra I bought is the one being difficult. It is a brand new DJI unit.
Other than needing to see the logs, which I will post asap, does anyone have any input?
As always, thanks in advance for your help.
I am trying to "get back on the horses" after my P3P disaster. (Self induced apparently).
I received my brand spanking new P4P this week. I know it is a vastly different animal than the old P3P. But after today, my third actual flight. I am a wee bit nervous.
And I will post logs asap.
I started with a mostly full battery, I had played with camera settings a bit. I launched and took it up to around 20 feet and about the same away from the HP, and let it come to a hover. The camera started flicking straight down. It would just set normal for a few seconds then it would point straight down and then right back up. Maybe it was trying to set a home point, I'm not sure. I need to verify if I had precision landing actuated, if I did it was not intentional.
Then I started a run where I took it up about 100 feet or so and sent it out at full throttle. It seemed liked it wuold slow down and then speed back up. I really didn't like that. There was wind, but not that much.
But I flew it around till the low battery warning came on at 30 % and came home. As I was descending it would come down very slow, then speed up, then slow down again. When it got to 15 or 20 feet AGL it dropped pretty darn fast for a second or two. Enough to pucker me up a bit.
And then there's the new battery that don't seem to want to charge too.
I am nervous coming off of a hard impact with the older drone, and I have not gotten comfortable with all of the new firmware and sensors. And this behavior being so completely different from the P3P is killing my confidence.
I did all the firmware updates to drone and controller right out of the box. But the batteries and even the charging tray need upgrades? Is that correct? ( And I did try the tray. Single, and car charger on the battery. ) The one that came with the drone does fine. The extra I bought is the one being difficult. It is a brand new DJI unit.
Other than needing to see the logs, which I will post asap, does anyone have any input?
As always, thanks in advance for your help.