Recent content by PhoenixP4

Took some chances flying head on at obstacles to test the obstacle avoidance? It looks like you actually hit that tower and bounced off. Sent from my iPhone using PhantomPilots

I carry a cooler with ice covered by plastic garbage bag and place the iPad inside the cooler to cool down when out in hot temps. I also plant a large black golf umbrella on my bike to sit under to shade both me and the iPad for better viewing and to reduce heat stress. Direct sun, no matter...

I set RTH to a high altitude and also only fly GPS mode if I feel likely I might lose signal or line of sight. Flying Sport Mode that turns off obstacle avoidance (even if you aren't flying full throttle) is a recipe for disaster. When in doubt - I've found that straight up is the best first...

Wow! Glad you are alive that swim you took could have turned deadly. Sent from my iPhone using PhantomPilots

Sport mode landed me in a pond. I forgot it was on and the descent was much quicker than typical with no avoidance sensors. Splash before I could react. I was lucky when I lost signal it initiated the RTH and came home dripping wet with a broken gimbal but the battery compartment and motors did...

It's not "bouncing around" for me as the reason I have used hand-catching in the past--it's just when landing on grass it can be sufficiently uneven (and it doesn't take much) that when the motors die it can tip to one side and frequently break propellers. I'll be taking a landing pad of a large...

My text didn't display. The moral is that i've had many successful hand captures, this weekend something went very wrong and the bird flipped and cut the hell out of me. I was the first drone attack victim in my local ER. The power down didn't work and the emergency motor shut off procedure...

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I agree top is not best place but I do not have the skill to remove the camera that's on my P4 and replace it with Fly360 for a temporary run Sent from my iPhone using PhantomPilots

YES! I mounted my Fly360 cam, using the stick on mounting base they provide with the camera, dead center on top of my P4. This is a real risk because it makes the drone top-heavy and no doubt interferes greatly with its aerodynamic design. So I was careful to do a few rounds of low level...

Even though I'm a sci-fi fan I had to educate myself on "Skynet". Hopefully my P4 will not become malevolently self-aware and self-preserving like HAL. If morphs into an intelligent robot (aka Isaac Asimov "I, Robot" fiction) and followed "the rules" I will be safe.

Yep those pics make a bloody statement - literally. I don't know why it flipped towards me when hand catching, I could be at fault I could've hit the stick and flew it into myself as a struggled to try to get the motors to shut down - I don't know. It was a good lesson for me - I will treat it...

Great tips - thanks!

Yes I agree the iPad mini 4 is perfect for this use