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Alright, so I got the "Standard" out on the bench after a very frustrating "weak/no control message in my favorite flight path under great conditions earlier.(bummed me out)
It was sending LED's like the remote wasnt binded! Any normal flyer would immediately assume it was because "I'm on the oldest FW and maybe an update will solve it". And believe me, I was starting to think that was probably the situation too! But I don't want to update from this old firmware, I can't trust that updating won't throttle this thing back to a 15-25,000 foot maximum! So I get it back to the bench and start from zero. Stock antennas birdside,DBS panel unboosted, and it works perfect, perfect signal and control , "ready to fly" in my kitchen! So I start adding stuff back on, DBS panel unboosted with 15 turns helical unboosted, still perfect signal, no problems. Then I went through the trouble of adding the one modded control pigtail with fat shark Spyronet antenna, still unboosted, all good! Then I went in and hooked up the same boosted controller configuration I tried earlier in the field, all good, super fast connect ready to go!
WHAT THE F**K!
sometimes this hobby just makes you pull your hair out!
So even in a path that I've had such great success with this aircraft, is it a simple situation where on this day there was some sort of interference that was causing me issues, enough to make me think there was a major problem with my aircraft, when in my kitchen I reveal that everything is fine. Some days I just don't know! But, I'm happy at what I found tonight and will give it another try.
* on a sidenote, to relieve my frustration with the P3S, I pulled my P3P out of the case in that same field 20 minutes later, and flew it out to 44,000 feet with perfect signal the whole way.
I just don't get it sometimes[emoji41]
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