Hello! I bought/received a P3S for Christmas, and have flown three packs through it without issue. My range has been very good, considering all the horror stories I had read, but something happened yesterday that has me a bit worried.
I was flying after work, and had just did a flight to 400' straight up, and had came back down to around 100' or so off the ground, and was hovering above my office, aiming to get a pic of the building roof. All of the sudden, I get a connection warning, and the video feed freezes. I still had control of the aircraft, although it did give me the RTH option. I flew it back to me, and landed....still with the video frozen, and shut it down. I restarted everything, and noticed a compass error warning, but that quickly went away. I did not fly it again, but the video feed was back to normal. Over the weekend, I had flown out to about 1,600' away from me with no video signal issues. When this happened, I was around 200' or so from the drone.
Here is a link to the flight log, and you can see where the downlink was lost:
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A couple things to mention: We do have WiFi in the building, but I am hoping that did not cause it. Also, I had rolled back the Go app to the previous version to get Google Maps back. When I lost the video signal, I noticed that the Go app had updated to the latest version, as it was using Here maps. Not sure if that affected anything or not.
Also, FWIW, I've been flying r/c craft for years. Nitro helis, electric helis, and many multirotor craft. My previous multirotor was a DJI Flamewheel w/Naza. The Phantom is the first WiFi controlled aircraft I have had however.
I was flying after work, and had just did a flight to 400' straight up, and had came back down to around 100' or so off the ground, and was hovering above my office, aiming to get a pic of the building roof. All of the sudden, I get a connection warning, and the video feed freezes. I still had control of the aircraft, although it did give me the RTH option. I flew it back to me, and landed....still with the video frozen, and shut it down. I restarted everything, and noticed a compass error warning, but that quickly went away. I did not fly it again, but the video feed was back to normal. Over the weekend, I had flown out to about 1,600' away from me with no video signal issues. When this happened, I was around 200' or so from the drone.
Here is a link to the flight log, and you can see where the downlink was lost:
HealthyDrones.com - Innovative flight data analysis that matters
A couple things to mention: We do have WiFi in the building, but I am hoping that did not cause it. Also, I had rolled back the Go app to the previous version to get Google Maps back. When I lost the video signal, I noticed that the Go app had updated to the latest version, as it was using Here maps. Not sure if that affected anything or not.
Also, FWIW, I've been flying r/c craft for years. Nitro helis, electric helis, and many multirotor craft. My previous multirotor was a DJI Flamewheel w/Naza. The Phantom is the first WiFi controlled aircraft I have had however.