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    is it legal for someone to have a drone jammer.

    Depends on which frequencies he is jamming. If the GPS gets jammed, I imagine the drone will either continue flying with the last command until it gets through the interference, or will hover until the battery is low and it auto lands where it is.... Dropping into the swamp.
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    is it legal for someone to have a drone jammer.

    Illegal jammers can cause real world problems and endanger lives. I remembered a story about a truck drive that didn't want his boss to know where he was all the time, or maybe he wanted to avoid paying GPS based tolls. He had a GPS jammer in his truck that he would turn on when he didn't want...
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    P4 Falcon Edition

    Why is that deceiving? Dealers of all types of products repackage and make "Special Editions". Automotive, Musical Instruments, etc... Why is it deceiving if Drone World repackages a P4 into a deluxe kit and calls it "Falcon Edition"?
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    Expensive Lesson Learned today

    I haven't deleted any flights. First 3-4 batteries worth I was using my iPhone before the iPad came in. So what information is available from the USB port on the Phantom itself?
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    Expensive Lesson Learned today

    Do all these flight records get sent to DJI?
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    Expensive Lesson Learned today

    I can go there, but it doesn't show me what happened. I have a take off and then nothing. I have 17 seconds of flight time 19.5M maximum height. The only stick movement shows startup, then about 60% vertical on left stick. There was a post about uploading your log file to a site that would give...
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    Expensive Lesson Learned today

    After Gobbling until I could barely Wobble, I got the P3 out and tried to download the flight logs. It may be more messed up than I first thought. It appears to work minus the camera, but when I go into flight data mode, it never makes itself available to the computer to download. I have tried...
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    Expensive Lesson Learned today

    Well, as much as I would like it to be DJI's fault, I stupidly ignored warnings and flew anyways. The battery had been in the car from the day before and was probably near frozen.
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    Expensive Lesson Learned today

    We are in Ohio and it got down slightly below 30 last night. Was about 50 when I went to fly, but I had left the batteries and Phantom in the car overnight. Just wasn't thinking about the battery being cold would so adversely effect the performance. Expensive lesson.
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    Expensive Lesson Learned today

    There might be a high temperature warning too. Probably likely.
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    Expensive Lesson Learned today

    There is an actual warning in the Go app that says: "low battery temperature. " Like an idiot I waited a little bit and took off anyways. Got 60 feet up and it came 60 feet straight back down. Asked my friend about it who is in the local RC airplane club, and he says that a battery that is low...
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    Expensive Lesson Learned today

    Well, I learned a lesson today. I didn't know about battery temperature and I was getting a warning about it but flew anyways. From 60 feet up, P3 shut completely down and free-fell onto a hardpack gravel road. Hit on props and plastic parts flew everywhere. Airframe is banged up a little. Two...
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    What is this wavy interference?

    Thanks. I have ordered one from Ebay and a ND filter that is adjustable. I will print that until the paid one comes. Thanks, Kirk
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    What is this wavy interference?

    Thanks, I just didn't know what the cause or termonology was so didn't even know what to search for. I have seen the filters and the hoods. I think I will order a hood. Not sure about the filter though? I have heard about Jello effect, but I didn't think this was it. Thanks, Kirk
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    What is this wavy interference?

    Pretty new to Arial photography. Can anybody tell me what this wavy interference is and how I can prevent it? Here is a short clip from some footage: I have a Phantom III Pro, below are the specifics of the file created. General Complete name : G:\DJI...