View attachment 20044 I've owned all the Phantom Visions. The P3P is much improved. Fewer issues for new operators. New App is a major improvement with real maps and satellite images.
Put your phone number on it with a marker or label maker. Remote too!
My advice go very slowly for your first 3 or 4 flights. I hovered my P3P T 2-3 feet high for almost 20 minutes to break-in motors and battery. If a new unit has a motor failure the fix will be easy unless it falls from 20 to 200 feet high! Feel your motors to see if any are overly hot to the touch. Bad bearings or tight bearings could cause a crash. You probably won't have any problems but why risk your $1,300 toy until you break in the motors and battery. High flights or over water flights should be done only after you've proven everything works.
Only one motor has to fail to cause a crash.
Hand catch for the first five flights. Especially over grass where a slight wind drift on touchdown can cost you prop damage.
Many pros will hand catch 100% of the time. They can fly perfect so hand catching tells you something about the cost of a bad landing.
Don't risk your P3P flying under things like bridges or piers. Let the pros who are getting paid to produce a shot risk a $1,300 crash into the water.
Consider some way to protect your camera and gimbal. A couple of strands of dental floss between the struts directly under the gimbal may save you $700. Even if strands show in straight down shots, unless you really need a clear shot, protecting the camera can save a lot of money.
During landings and hand catches most beginners fly the copter with the camera pointing away to avoid the left right reversal problem in tight landing spaces.
You will need to practice with the camera pointed at you until you figure out when left and right are reversed, and toward you and away are also reversed. Don't piss off your neighbors hovering over their kids in their pool! Open areas until you get it back to you at least 10 times.
Batteries are expensive, learn about the issues of storing them fully charged in your hot car or trunk. When a battery cell fails, your drone may do an auto landing before you have time to figure out how to land it in the street or front yard. It is no fun knocking on a strangers door and asking to retrieve your camera drone that landed in their back yard or tree. Any battery that swells is an early warning sign. Murphy's law says the battery will fail over the water to teach you a lesson. Batteries rarely fail while being used a lot. They fail while in storage with a full charge. They cause a problem on the next flight.
Good luck and have fun. Fly safe. Take a lot of still photos, not movies. It is 20 times easier to impress your friends and family with a drone photo than all the skill it takes to make an impressive video!