Recent content by Mark The Droner

Pretend your Phantom 2 is a racing drone and learn these tricks! Impress your friends. Impress your neighbors. Impress your girl.

Nice! Just saw this on reddit:

My daughter just emailed me - they just passed 1 million deliveries! And made a video.

There's velcro and then there's velcro. You want the latter. ;-) Industrial strength velcro. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=velcro+industrial+strength&crid=HHVHOXYBSIMN&sprefix=velcro+industrial+strength%2Caps%2C70&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

No, 0-20% as described in the manual refers to battery life, not battery level. I saw your thread on the dji site. The knowledge base is much more significant on this site ;-)

Possible loophole - You could fly to USA (with your P3), buy the P3 battery, then fly back home. :-D

IMO, the best way to test a questionable battery is real world - fly it in an open field at low height while watching the battery info closely. Max thrust it back and forth. Fly it until the battery is a bit lower percentage in charge than you'd usually fly. Check the log to see that the...

My experience is it's hit and miss with the aftermarket batteries. It's good to get good reviews before you buy. I rarely buy AM. However, I've had a couple that were outstanding and a couple others that were a disaster. If a DJI battery goes bad, it's always my fault one way or the other...

Here's another bad P2 battery - seems okay until it gets down to 21%, then the percentage starts to crash unexpectedly and it went into critical auto land. If I was over woods trying to get home, it would not have ended well. These are both legit DJI batteries...

Here's a vid of me testing a questionable P2 battery. It showed full charge, but it charged funny - very slow at first, then zoomed to full charge. Ready to launch - Had green lamps in back, everything appeared okay. Upon launch, rear lamps began quickly flashing red almost immediately...

Not sure what country you're in, but here in USA, it's against postal regs to export a lithium battery, although you can import them. So if one buys one from China and it's bad, he can't return it. So you might check your country's regs. Good luck.

In the beginning of the vid, it's difficult to see what you're doing with your fingers. Your fingers are blocking the view of the contact with your fingers and the buttons. At about the 20 sec mark, it appears you powered up the left battery. It appears to have powered up correctly and it's...

My daughter works for zipline. They were granted BVLOS clearance in the USA last fall. https://www.aviationtoday.com/2023/09/19/zipline-gets-faa-approval-for-bvlos-drone-deliveries/