Recent content by BogotaMatt

Guys, Thanks for your quick replies ! I will be checking all this stuff out today. I have matched the freq between Rx and Tx, both are in Pal mode, and the Blackpearl is in Diveristy mode. I have moved the Tx to the rear of the craft with the antenna sticking out. I will look at the antennas...

Guys, I'm kinda worried. I'm not getting more than a few meters of useful range with a FS832+Blackpearl in urban environment. I'm on a stock setup, standard antennas (I'm in Colombia, fancy stuff like antennas are hard to come by), channel 32. Clear picture standing next to the copter, degrades...

I will definitely check it out when I receive the new one !

Luckily the insurance covers us. I'm still tempted to go for a Walkera, the hex safety factor very appealing...

Note distance too. Telemetry was lost, not the video feed, but the copter was perfectly responsive...

It did drop to one side and go down, yes. Copter was in NAZA mode, I have the last frame sent to the phone, and it shows something interesting, now that I see it... It was however responding perfectly and was right over me when it went... Not a VRS, descending at a slow rate, in GPS mode, not...

I'd like to share my experience with you guys. We've lost a P2V due to a very strange failure. I'm pretty experienced in flying drones. We were doing tracking shots of our boat on the amazon river, with the copter at about 50m high and reasonable forward speed. Copter was in GPS mode, I let it...

Newbie here, will introduce myself in the appropriate thread. I have flown a v2 Phantom Vision at 4300m, on a hot day in the Peruvian Andes. It succeeded in climbing at about 20m and kind of stayed there. It would however loose lots of altitude on turns. We got about 6 mins of flight time on a...