Recent content by charlieWhelan

Anyone have any tips on extending the battery time in flight? I need to justify this P4 purchase!! Car are optimized at highway speeds for MPG. if you go top speed, however, you deplete the battery/gas at an exponential rate. Has anyone found that sweet spot to get the biggest bag out of...

I judge it by feel. Im really looking for wind gusts. The p4 has the power to overcome most constant wind I fly in. I am a bit more sensitive to this with my p4 as moves all over the place while hovering. In GPS mode it will move 10 feet without correction. I never had to worry about this...

At 170 a pop.. DJI must be loving that "feature"

Very cool! for a split second I thought of using my P3P with a long hook, but you know what they say... 1 in the hand is worth 2 in the bush

I have no idea how the battery popped out. There is no damage to the clasp or anything. The battery did fall 100 feet so there is some damage. No cracks, but a few minor dents on the actual battery. It doesn't reliably charge and when I inserted the battery in the drone, it powered up...

The guy who owns the truck is friends with my Girlfriends family. It was a favor, I just gave him a well deserved tip....I can only image how much I could have been dinged for a Sunday short notice recovery ...

Thought I would share my mistake for all to enjoy. On Sunday, I was trying to do a low fly by over the tree tops in sport mode. I caught the top branch of an enormous tree. The drone was perfectly hung up 100 FT HIGH, and snow was coming that night.. Had to get a bucket lift to come...

Simple question. I have Dji go installed. My units while controlling my P3P and P4 are set to imperial. When i replay my flight records, the units display correctly (mph), but it is obviously display the values in kmh. Is there a setting I am missing? android version.

Does active track work in sport mode at top speed?

Ran my P4 tonight with copper windsurfers, lost full connection @ 11,850 Ft. Used to run my p3p, with same windsurfers to about 13,000ft with almost full singal. Only reason I would return was battery. Both flights were on the same path, with a clear line of sight. P3P returned at 23%...

Although not illegal for drones, I would only use the blue/red strobe in my yard when my young nephew is over. I can only imagine the sensationalized headlines anti-drone writers would come up with if they saw me flying around town with police colored strobes.

Update: I thought I was going to tap into the Phantom Batt but the voltage does not match up and I do not feel like figuring out how to step down the voltage to 3.5v - 6.0v. To make things easy, I will add two CR2032 wafer batteries ( 6 grams total ) , wired in series to output the 6.0 volts...

Can you post a night flying video with the strobe attatch (close and long range).. That would be helpful.. I was looking at the following: I am thinking of adding a LED strobe beacon to the top rear of the unit: Controller: Strobon SE - Navigation Strobe Controller - Flytron LED: 3W White...

It takes a 360 degree signal and focuses it to 180 degrees (?), maybe that is where they got their "double strength". Doubtful its double, but I have seen huge increases. I can fly father than my battery will allow on my P3P. Aiming is not that difficult, but at very long distances, it...