I waited a year before i could afford a drone. I didnt want to race it or perform stunts with it. I was never impressed by the " max altitude test" videos all over youtube, and was more interested in the photography aspect of flying a drone.
I searched around for ages and settled on one from a guy 3 hours drive from me. He uses drones for a living and the p3p wasnt being used. Had a great demo and a fly and we shook hands. Updates were required and in doing so, im clearly unwilling to throw a wad of cash jnto the air knowing i hadnt taken every recommended update and precaution that it will in fact return. Therein began on a madly frustrating journey, the onky benefit of which i can see is that i know know my drone very intimately.
Using a galaxy s2 8" i began getting the "gimbal disconnect" message and this coincided with my first flight and therefore my period of familiarisation with the drone, which was limited to beginner mode, on the very few days of decent weather. Having 3 gig of ram i was confifent the tab could cope, and the shaky choppy video was i naively thought had been caused by the gimbal disconnect issue. I was wrong and resorted to a screen recorder and get some flying time.
It was unclear from the forums whether or not the gimbal message was a firmware issue, an app issue, an imu issue, potentially gimbal ribbon damage, a million whispers and suggested fixes, absolutely non worked, so i ordered a gimbal ribbon, and was confident i coild undertake the repair myself. On the day it arrived (3rd Nov) DJI admit theres an issue and a fix has been done with 3.1.22 app. Indeed it was. The gimbal message disappeared, but the choppy video issue remained. The screen recordings played fine, but the 4k quality is a big selling poimt for the p3p, amd was a draw for me when considering where to spend my money. It would transpire that you need a computer the size of a fridge to actually work in this format, but hey ho, in addition to the new 500m height limit, this was another minor disappointment, as a new drone owner.
Ive discovered that the recorded files saved to my tablet are unusable, and i need to download any recodings via wifi, burning batteries, go through the app to edit them and ive had some fun doing this, but i have had to teach myself everything, through hit and miss hints and tips, trawling through pages of really useful stuff in the main.
Just getting confident, get one days flying in, and then find my rc wont link with my tablet anymore. Just gutted. Paid a fortune for suitable tab with a big screen and it suddenly wont do the only job i ask it to do.
Completely lost faith in DJI products?? I will tell you tomorrow when i get the tab changed.
I searched around for ages and settled on one from a guy 3 hours drive from me. He uses drones for a living and the p3p wasnt being used. Had a great demo and a fly and we shook hands. Updates were required and in doing so, im clearly unwilling to throw a wad of cash jnto the air knowing i hadnt taken every recommended update and precaution that it will in fact return. Therein began on a madly frustrating journey, the onky benefit of which i can see is that i know know my drone very intimately.
Using a galaxy s2 8" i began getting the "gimbal disconnect" message and this coincided with my first flight and therefore my period of familiarisation with the drone, which was limited to beginner mode, on the very few days of decent weather. Having 3 gig of ram i was confifent the tab could cope, and the shaky choppy video was i naively thought had been caused by the gimbal disconnect issue. I was wrong and resorted to a screen recorder and get some flying time.
It was unclear from the forums whether or not the gimbal message was a firmware issue, an app issue, an imu issue, potentially gimbal ribbon damage, a million whispers and suggested fixes, absolutely non worked, so i ordered a gimbal ribbon, and was confident i coild undertake the repair myself. On the day it arrived (3rd Nov) DJI admit theres an issue and a fix has been done with 3.1.22 app. Indeed it was. The gimbal message disappeared, but the choppy video issue remained. The screen recordings played fine, but the 4k quality is a big selling poimt for the p3p, amd was a draw for me when considering where to spend my money. It would transpire that you need a computer the size of a fridge to actually work in this format, but hey ho, in addition to the new 500m height limit, this was another minor disappointment, as a new drone owner.
Ive discovered that the recorded files saved to my tablet are unusable, and i need to download any recodings via wifi, burning batteries, go through the app to edit them and ive had some fun doing this, but i have had to teach myself everything, through hit and miss hints and tips, trawling through pages of really useful stuff in the main.
Just getting confident, get one days flying in, and then find my rc wont link with my tablet anymore. Just gutted. Paid a fortune for suitable tab with a big screen and it suddenly wont do the only job i ask it to do.
Completely lost faith in DJI products?? I will tell you tomorrow when i get the tab changed.
