Recent content by BillW50

Yes true. It might tick DJI off though. And they do still control the firmware on my other Phantom, which kinda worries me a bit. :(

Well I had a very bad gut feeling about sending it back to DJI. I should have listened. DJI lost my P3S! They have no record of me purchasing any Phantom and the RMA number they told me to use to ship back (at my expense), now say it is an invalid RMA. I paid for a P3S and I got nothing.

I paid $24.99 for mine at the Google Play store last month.

RTH works fine on signal loss with Litchi. I use it all of the time. Just don't loose the signal if you are using the following flight modes: VR with Immersive/Joystick Head Tracking active, Follow, Focus and Track. But these flight modes are pretty much worthless without a signal anyway. Help...

I went the 25 buck route and my P3S can travel as far as the battery will let me under Litchi missions. Which can be over 60,000 feet (20,000 meters).

That what I think happened too. My first refurb I received in November and that one is fine and is like new. Although since the Christmas rush, they seemed to just rush them out the door.

There are logs on my second refurb dating back in November of having dozens of compass errors. And I received it on the 12th of January and it still has compass errors. It works most of the time, but it randomly quits for a few seconds at a time. So I don't know how FedEx (or anybody else) could...

By the way, how did you break your old controller? I have two P3S and so two controllers. One has DBS installed and one is stock. I'll sometimes resync one controller to the other Phantom. So I have noticed the controllers only remember the last Phantom it last resync'd to.

I still count that as using the RTH feature. As without this feature, you would never get it back in radio range without moving the controller closer to the craft.

Wow! Where did you get that cool ND filter? I need at least two of them. And my two P3S makes the same noise and they are far worse. Although since they are not interfering, I never bothered to do anything about it.

I live out in the country in the forest and I too have seen the radio range can vary from day to day. Although most days it is exactly the same as it has been. I have two P3S and I have seen this happen with both of them. I never have flown them on the same day when that day the range is better...

That isn't what I am referring to. If you send your DJI product back to DJI for warranty because a DJI update messed up your Phantom, the stories I hear are that DJI will charge you (not covered under warranty) for the repairs which was their fault to begin with.

No it doesn't. But you know that DJI will just resell it again and again until one customer down the line just throws it away. And it would have saved a lot of people grief if the first customer just threw it away to begin with. :(

When I lived in Europe (in the 70's), Europeans often earned double of their counterparts in America. So when you purchased something in Europe and it costs twice as much as it does in America, it makes sense to me.

I too just recently received my second refurbished. Let's see. So far the compass is randomly intermittent and the camera starts flopping around like crazy only when moved suddenly (it works fine sitting on the workbench). Camera looks to the right by 20° and gets worse the longer it is on. And...