Whats your Range on your P3P ?

Nizar Ghosn · Sep 26, 2015

... when you where going away the wind was in front of ur cam so, the drone gonna puch hard to fight the wind to move forward so, it will lean to the front and u will see the props .. contrary the wind was from the back and it will puch the drone toward it's destination not too much friction so, the movement of the drone is very easy toward home point therefore not too much lean forward , result u will not see the props

Nizar Ghosn · Sep 26, 2015

MattyDread said:
This was from today, furthest I've gone - still full rc & video feed bars, just need bigger gonads. Out into a head wind max speed 8/ms (18mph) back was 16/ms (35mph)

On the way out into headView attachment 31882 wind you can see the arms/props of the p3 in the video - on the return at twice the speed you can't see them.

Someone please explain

... when you where going away the wind was in front of ur cam so, the drone gonna puch hard to fight the wind to move forward so, it will lean to the front and u will see the props .. contrary the wind was from the back and it will puch the drone toward it's destination not too much friction so, the movement of the drone is very easy toward home point therefore not too much leaning forward , result u will not see the props

N017RW · Sep 26, 2015

happytreefriends said:
How is the signal if you have trees and stuff in the way?

Any obstruction can reduce signal.
How much depends on many, many, factors.

Charles Vo · Oct 4, 2015

At 120m up and supposedly clear line of sight, would house and trees be a factor? I've only flown from in front of my house which faces a large church parking lot and never got more than 1000m before getting RC signal loss and as high as 1,4km with the plastic antenna booster. Today I tried from a very large park, 3-4 football field long with residential at the end and got to 1.8km but the weird part is both video and RC signal loss came at the same time. At that distance I'm probably not aligning the antenna correctly but it's weird that both video rc went at the same time. Any thoughts?

Drone_on · Oct 4, 2015

After 4 cocktails...6500 feet stock in Montana at 300 feet alt no obstructions...

Charles Vo · Oct 4, 2015

I'm using an iPad 2 also. So you're saying we cannot use the 1.4 FW until they fix it? I'm not using GS anyway so it wouldn't matter I guess. Thanks for the heads up.

Mr.Spock · Oct 4, 2015

Joe Stavitzke said:
I was able to get about 3.2 miles stock. Since, I have upgraded to Horizon FPV and am well over 5+ miles now. Going for 7 miles with the new array I posted hereView attachment 29743

how do u get that flight data display embedded in your video pls?

Charles Vo · Oct 5, 2015

david wettlaufer said:
Do you use a Apple product? Because there having issues with the new update and dji app. I use a iPad 2 and just updated a few days ago...after I had the same issue both would just go out for almost a min Then return. others are having same issue...This is a apple os issue for me so I went back to the previous os.

I just checked around and it's the IOS 9 you are referring to. I'm still on 8.4.1 so there must be another reason for the sudden blackout.

PilotHarry · Oct 5, 2015

1800 stock, 6000+ with windsurfer!

Fanti · Dec 2, 2015

I get solid 12,6 km / 44,000 ft with Stock RC. Only limited by battery.

schemer · Dec 2, 2015

3.68 miles one way. That's 19,480 ft. From home! Windsurfer is only mod.

FatTwoTonTony · Dec 2, 2015

Fanti said:
I get solid 12,6 km / 44,000 ft with Stock RC. Only limited by battery.
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Holy **** well done

UnknownCaller · Dec 2, 2015

The best I have done is 8.5 miles out and back , but I updated my drone since then its not possible to break 35 mph in PGPS mode. Even with a tailwind.

Denver_Flight · Dec 2, 2015

UnknownCaller said:
The best I have done is 8.5 miles out and back , but I updated my drone since then its not possible to break 35 mph in PGPS mode. Even with a tailwind.View attachment 37017

That's insane. How did you have enough battery to get that far? Fly one way? I got 3 miles out (my P3 is bone stock) and worried about making it home.

dstephan · Dec 2, 2015

12.7 miles / 20+ km

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dstephan · Dec 2, 2015

phantom1972 · Feb 20, 2016

MADrone said:
Yes, direct LOS since I was at an elevated point (reservoir).

I've seen a little over 12,000', but that was at the beach, standing in the higher sand, and a little out over the ocean. Very unobstructed and interference free environment.

300', in areas with lots of housing developments, over which you shouldn't be doing this anyway, I was dying at 3,000'. I'm thinking interference. Every house probably had wifi.

Remember, LOS is everything. Yesterday from my place to a nearby river about 1 mile away, I couldn't make it at 400'. The tangent of the angle to the bird would be 400/5280, which gives an angle of about 4 degrees. Very shallow. And the elevation is enen a little lower at the river. With my neighbors house and trees, I figured I wouldn't be LOS at that distance. Shame on me but I jacked my altitude up and 200' higher, I could get to the river and beyond. I had just come up to an altitude that gave me LOS.

I was also experimenting with antenna positioning. I was using the radar display for orientation (Although with my eagle eyes, I could slightly see it without glasses or contacts. LOL)

For some reason 5 degrees or so off directly poimting to the nird raised my signal (RC was the limiting factor), and changing the antenna orientation to bring the antennas more vertical got me from 2 bars back to 5. The plane formed by the antennas needs to be perpendicular to the craft.

So for max range LOS is everything, with LOS meaning it could be viewed (nothing in between), and your antennas must be spread apart with the flat party pointing out, and oriented so the flat sides are pointing at your bird, and vertically so they point upward at a 90 degree angle to the craft.

LOS is a huge factor, and what is obstructing your LOS is big too. I was only 2,500' away, and a drop of 50', from 200' to 150' turned my signals off like a switch. I'm thinking I dropped my LOS through a long concrete building. Especially with rebar. I executed its loss of signal return to home, and I control back in 30 seconds.

Sorry, ridiculously long winded, but unobstructed LOS, and correct antenna orientation (experimenting a little with it), and an interference free environment (unless severe the first two dominate at close range), can kick the range from 1,000' to 10,000'. That much if you get a nearby building out of the way.