Recent content by Xitor

This one had a crash and the entire camera unit broke off drone. I bought some parts and put everything back together but think I didn't link the antenna properly. I also installed an antenna upgrade at the same time as fixing this which was a little stupid as I don't now know which caused...

My phantom 3 loses connectivity to the controller at about 30 yards. Signal drops, drone returns to home, or close enough to get signal. Suspect its just antenna issue or connectivty. However the question is, if its going to cost $300 to repair, I'd rather put that money in a new drone...

Funny, I didn't even know the antennas had a front in back. Fortuntely the label / serial number is on the flat back, with a slightly curved front, so I think I have that right. Would have felt stupid, but would be an easy fix. I took apart the controller and the wires were all in place, I...

I installed the Argtek Antenna and now I can't fly my drone past the end of the driveway without having weak signal issues and loosing video. I've seen notes about firmware in the forum, but I think this was just something I've done wrong. Anyone else who did their own antenna mod have similar...

For pre-flight checklist, how about making sure your SD card is installed. That's got me before. Only thing worse is when you're getting that great shot and realize you forgot to hit record. 23 minutes goes fast.

Wait, they will fix it even though I crashed it? Crazy cool if so. Especially since I don't know if everything will work after I put these parts back on. Is there a link to the warranty return? I don't have purchase receipt since it was a gift.

For my birthday, my son who is an E3 in the Navy, bought me the coolest gift ever, a phantom 3 standard. Had a couple good months with it, but this weekend was shooting some photos at a large indoor stage and while watching the camera backed into a wall and the drone crashed to the ground...

So curious, that may not be the law, but to be FAA registered we agreed to fly under 400 feet. Isn't that legally binding? I have gone over 400 feet, but only once accidentally. I was playing with inflight shut down in the flight simulator and wanted to see how high you had to be to do an...

Doesn't self-tightening in this case simply mean that the motors spin in the opposite direction you tighten the blades, and they never go in the opposite direction? Worst case though is motor lock up in mid flight which cloud unwind the blade from inertial force.

I suspect people without one of these think we can zoom in spy on them, etc. Have you ever offered to show him the footage or is he just pretty anti-social?

I've got $1.99 I'll give to any who wants to write an app that will read the last known GPS point from the flight log on my phone and give me a geocaching type compass and distance to it. Seems like a crazy easy thing to do for a programmer, one I'm surprised isn't in the DJI app yet.