When DJI finally offered the P3S in the beginning of 2016 for 599 Euro there was nor reason anymore not to try the world of flying up into the air and looking down without the hazzard of crashing the airplane (ultralight) and getting killed in the worst case.
1000 meter reach and a 720p downlink video - wow. Got mine from an authorized DJI dealer here in Spain.
The first expreriences were horrible. The software wanted to be updated but the drone was just beeping for over half an hour quite loud (whoever activated the beeper during the update time must have won the moron of the year award) and then it would not stop.
I finally figured out with the help from here that the alternative way with downloading the firmware and putting it on the sd card in the camera was the way to solve this. Beeping happily again - this time it worked. Why does a brand new product with a working software has to be updated, the was the promise of flying out of the box, just screw on the propellers. From screwing the customer was nothing mentioned.
The Galaxy S5 worked fine with the drone and was even bright enough to see in direct sunlight. - kind of
I am living in a rural area, with just free fields behind my house and from the top of the tool shed I have an unobstructed view over the fields.
The first flights were full of argh and trembeling to crash the little gem.
But I managed and the P3S was rock stabile in the air and with the GPS always came home.
Sadly the 1000 meter distance I learned was cut in half by living in the wrong part of the world. Here only 500 meters were possible.
Must have been in the fine print and not on the sales page.
Oh well lets try for 500 meters. Since there is nothing in the way and no interference from orange trees, lets see.
After 250 meters I lost the siganl an panicked - but the drone came home.
I read of windsurfers and reflectors,and boosters and a lot more and knew then that I should have gone with the stronger P3A.
One day I put a CD through the antenna hole and it worked as a reflector with me reaching finally 400 to 700 meters.
I liked the result.
Now I wanted to have a bigger screen than the 5" S5 but had no Idea how to mout my 8" tablett. I tried different aproaces and looked in the internet but there was nothing what worked for me.
We had then a several months long periode of very stong wind 30 to 50 km/h and the drone got grounded and kind of forgotten since the overall experience was so so.
1000 meter reach and a 720p downlink video - wow. Got mine from an authorized DJI dealer here in Spain.
The first expreriences were horrible. The software wanted to be updated but the drone was just beeping for over half an hour quite loud (whoever activated the beeper during the update time must have won the moron of the year award) and then it would not stop.
I finally figured out with the help from here that the alternative way with downloading the firmware and putting it on the sd card in the camera was the way to solve this. Beeping happily again - this time it worked. Why does a brand new product with a working software has to be updated, the was the promise of flying out of the box, just screw on the propellers. From screwing the customer was nothing mentioned.
The Galaxy S5 worked fine with the drone and was even bright enough to see in direct sunlight. - kind of
I am living in a rural area, with just free fields behind my house and from the top of the tool shed I have an unobstructed view over the fields.
The first flights were full of argh and trembeling to crash the little gem.
But I managed and the P3S was rock stabile in the air and with the GPS always came home.
Sadly the 1000 meter distance I learned was cut in half by living in the wrong part of the world. Here only 500 meters were possible.
Must have been in the fine print and not on the sales page.
Oh well lets try for 500 meters. Since there is nothing in the way and no interference from orange trees, lets see.
After 250 meters I lost the siganl an panicked - but the drone came home.
I read of windsurfers and reflectors,and boosters and a lot more and knew then that I should have gone with the stronger P3A.
One day I put a CD through the antenna hole and it worked as a reflector with me reaching finally 400 to 700 meters.
I liked the result.
Now I wanted to have a bigger screen than the 5" S5 but had no Idea how to mout my 8" tablett. I tried different aproaces and looked in the internet but there was nothing what worked for me.
We had then a several months long periode of very stong wind 30 to 50 km/h and the drone got grounded and kind of forgotten since the overall experience was so so.
