Does a cloudy day shorten your flight?

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Hello everyone!

I took my P3A out today for its first cloudy day flight. It had not rained it about 4 hours but there was still moisture in the air since the clouds where hanging about. I have your basic range extenders on my antennas and at around 1500ft distance and 400ft high I lost visual signal and control. At this point I had to hold the "Oh Crap" button and make it return to me ASAP. Do clouds really cause this much of a problem with the signal that it would cut my distance in half or more? On a sunny day the farthest i've taken my phantom was 3Kish feet.
 
Hello everyone!

I took my P3A out today for its first cloudy day flight. It had not rained it about 4 hours but there was still moisture in the air since the clouds where hanging about. I have your basic range extenders on my antennas and at around 1500ft distance and 400ft high I lost visual signal and control. At this point I had to hold the "Oh Crap" button and make it return to me ASAP. Do clouds really cause this much of a problem with the signal that it would cut my distance in half or more? On a sunny day the farthest i've taken my phantom was 3Kish feet.

I've never had clouds cut my distance that I know of. I've been hoping to get some clouds low enough to fly through/over.
 
Do clouds really cause this much of a problem with the signal that it would cut my distance in half or more? On a sunny day the farthest i've taken my phantom was 3Kish feet.
Clouds shouldn't have much effect unless you are flying through them but humidity in the air will have a small impact.
Local interference is likely to have much more effect though.
 
I actually flew on a cloudy day (yesterday) and I flew farther than I ever have before...


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The clouds where not anywhere near the 400ft ceiling and this is in an area i've flown before and was easy able to hit 2-2.5k distance. Losing control of your phantom is always unnerving!
 
I've done some further research of the area and about 1.3 miles away I found a tower of some sort. It looks to be a cellular tower but I am no positive it is. Can this thing be causing the issue being that far away?
 
I've done some further research of the area and about 1.3 miles away I found a tower of some sort. It looks to be a cellular tower but I am no positive it is. Can this thing be causing the issue being that far away?

I've got a few cell towers near where I fly. 2 of them cause no problems, but one of them does. I can not fly past it. I lose all signals when I get to the same spot about 300 ft away from it.
They all look exactly the same too.



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