Recent content by coloscott

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    Flying at High Elevation

    I live at about 8,800 feet and have done a few high altitude runs, one to about 2,500 feet above my driveway (I've made sure there are no flight paths above my house) It's on Youtube if anyone wants to see. I agree with the max decent rate at 3 m/s, I've crashed hard twice now from descending...
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    Vision iOS App Altitude Accuracy?

    I did an altitude test run last weekend and got to 2,503 feet as indicated on the IOS Vision app on my iPhone but the datalogger, a Flytrex, only reported 2,247 feet. I sent the info to Flytrex and they said the data from the the Phantom GPS matched the Flytrex within a couple of feet and that...
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    Preflight Check List...for the P2V

    I would add to the "After flight checks..." section, as the first step: Make sure you have stopped your video recording! Powering the Phantom down as the first step may result in a corrupted and unusable video file.