Which case for a Phantom 2 Vision?

Last week here in Queensland, Australia, I went on a trip and took the P2V with me using this case:
http://www.helipal.com/carrying-case-fo ... m-big.html

I checked in the Phantom and asked them to put a fragile sticker on it,
but it still went along the conveyor belt and down the chute like everything else.

I had a 2.5hr flight, collected my baggage - and then the case was put into the open tray
of a Hilux ute, where it stayed for a 3 hour drive in the rain, part of which was over some
very rough rainforest road, and also included a river ferry and several mountain passes
where waterfalls cascaded down the cliffs right beside the road. At one point the rain
was seriously torrential (26cm of rain over that day and night).

When carried inside, case dried off and unpacked, the Vision worked fine, although
the extreme humidity did cause some fogging of the lens at one point during flight.

Then five days later the whole exercise was repeated in reverse.

Back on home soil, the Vision is still working fine.

So obviously the case did a great job protecting the Vision, and keeping it dry
in some very wet conditions.
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On a related subject, the two batteries I took in carry on were no problem
on the outward flight - they looked them over for a few seconds and said 'OK'.
On the return flight there was 5-6 minutes of conferring between two
check-in staff, some computer searching etc. before they said OK.

Either way - they were easily within the airline's guidelines.
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On another related subject, I was staying in a very remote location
and the Vision was still able to fly in GPS mode, although the number
of very big, tall trees meant that several times I lost signal and had to
move and aim the controller to get it back.

There was also perpetual, low, heavy cloud cover - and it was raining slightly
or spitting when I flew. Not sure what effect these had on signal.
 

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