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    How to save a battery?

    The main thing to preserve a LiPO is to follow the generally accepted procedures for them. Do not discharge fully, do not store fully charged or completely depleted. Do not recharge a hot battery. Good luck. Sent from my iPhone using PhantomPilots mobile app
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    Antenna boosters

    They work good for me also. $10 is worth it. They do however defect most of the envelope forward. So just try to face the bird direction. Peace. Sent from my iPhone using PhantomPilots mobile app
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    ITELITE range extender

    Like most P4 owners range is important. ITELiTE DBS antenna have results evidentially. From what I understand this antenna is only for the 2.4Ghz command signals between ground and bird. I'm curious from the Long distance operators....are you getting video feed the entire trip out and back...
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    video transmission - how to get smoother ?

    Msinger good link. Darknezz.... I smoothed my video by reducing resolution. Low altitude Aerial video seems to be sharp at 1080. This seemed to free up my device (iPad mini4) video processing. Give it a try. Sent from my iPhone using PhantomPilots mobile app
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    New to phantom, have 2 questions

    My kids have these little 250 series drones, I don't know about acrobatics but their aircraft responds much faster than mine. They can even flip them over. And a crash in the bean field doesn't cause catastrophic damage. The thrust to weight ratio is insane. FPV is equally insane...
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    FPV goggles and P4 video signal strength

    In case anyone was wondering, I solved this problem. The DJI go app has a lot of functions and settings. On the main menu there's a pull down for toggling multi video output in and off. It helped. Peace. Sent from my iPhone using PhantomPilots mobile app
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    On the same subject....FPV goggles

    This is true and my intent. Having the goggles gives maximum FPV experience... now with multiple video out capacity, more than one viewer at a time can be accommodated. I did check out the Vufine 007sonic. I like the concept on this. Here where I'm at farmers still use gyros to locate...
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    P4 Gimbal Disconnected no picture

    I had an intermittent problem such as yours at first. And I was able to correct the situation with a new and shorter high-quality lightning cable and I also do preflight in this order: power on RC, power on P4, then I connect the lightning cable. Haven't had a problem since, hope it helped...
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    New to phantom, have 2 questions

    Just an opinion but I wouldn't even consider doing acrobatics with a $1400 UAV. Not slamming you or anyone else just saying. The basic airframe design of the helo was never meant to allow serious deviation of normal angle of attack anyway. Fixed wing, different story. Sent from my iPhone...
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    All My video is "jerky"

    I was seeing the same thing, took this advice and eliminated most of the problem. While reviewing flight footage it's hard for the human eye to see the difference between 2.7 K and 4K. I reduced resolution and got less jerky video. I even went all the way down to1080 P and all but eliminated...
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    On the same subject....FPV goggles

    While I try to figure out the FPV signal strength situation, I noticed on these new dominator V3 goggles that the optical view is smaller than I expected. I've heard good things about the dominator V3 by fat shark, but I've also heard some good things about others. I definitely cannot afford...
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    FPV goggles and P4 video signal strength

    Very little info comes with the Dominator v3 but I hooked it all up and noticed about two seconds after plugging in the hdmi cable from the RC to the goggles, the video (cam view) goes blank on my iPad mini4. Using DJI Go btw. No cam view in goggles either. Disconnect the hdmi and tablet cam...
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    Our hobby in general

    Right on Shadow 81. Probably not too far off in the future. Hopefully FAA gets off their arse and authorizes commercial use and gets us the rules and some info. Fly safe brother. Sent from my iPhone using PhantomPilots mobile app
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    Our hobby in general

    A Midwest Land owner are here using a Phantom 4 to keep track of some cattle, varmints and predators. UAVs are not a new concept as we were using them in the Marines 30 years ago but man, have they advanced! I just want to encourage everyone to fly safe and fly responsible. There's a lot of...