Multirotor, multicopter and quadcopter discussion - The Drone thread

TheStarkFactor said:
I'll do some Googling. :)

Any recommendations on where to buy the DJI P3?

Amazon have it for £415 but not currently in stock.
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Anything between £400-£450 seems the going rate for a P3 Standard just now. Mine was £449 from Clifton Cameras with free shipping. I've seen them on Banggood for about £370 but you need to wait for a good few weeks usually until it arrives. It's maybe just me, but I preferred buying from a UK supplier. :)
 
Draeger said:
Anything between £400-£450 seems the going rate for a P3 Standard just now. Mine was £449 from Clifton Cameras with free shipping. I've seen them on Banggood for about £370 but you need to wait for a good few weeks usually until it arrives. It's maybe just me, but I preferred buying from a UK supplier. :)
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You'd get done by customs for sure.
 
As it was a gorgeous morning I took the P3P out

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Cyclone said:
As it was a gorgeous morning I took the P3P out

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Stunning shots m8, nice one. I was out this afternoon with the P3S but it was very dull and grey so didn't get any great images.

I found the flight data which related to my crash (I think) and ran it through the Healthydrones website, quite a few warnings in there:-

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Draeger said:
Stunning shots m8, nice one. I was out this afternoon with the P3S but it was very dull and grey so didn't get any great images.

I found the flight data which related to my crash (I think) and ran it through the Healthydrones website, quite a few warnings in there:-
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Cheers fella, was a nice morning for flying.

With your P3S, did you do all the normal calibrations for imu and compass?? And do you know if you had enough satellites locked??
 
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Yeah, IMU was calibrated and the compass was calibrated the previous day. I didn't calibrate the compass at the location I was flying in where the crash happened as I thought it wasn't needed? Folk on a Phantom FB page I'm a member of said that calibrating the compass before every flight was overkill?

Had a Google of this 'Mode 25' Follow Me flyaway issue and it looks like I'm not alone - there are threads all over the place about people having something similar happen to them. This video is exactly what happened to mine (albeit this is a Phantom 4) :-

 
Draeger said:
Yeah, IMU was calibrated and the compass was calibrated the previous day. I didn't calibrate the compass at the location I was flying in where the crash happened as I thought it wasn't needed? Folk on a Phantom FB page I'm a member of said that calibrating the compass before every flight was overkill?
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The compass calibration is needed after a firmware install, and if you plan to fly over 50 miles away from previous one.
 
Cool, when I switched on the Phantom for the very first time it did a firmware update and I calibrated everything at the time. I've yet to fly over 50 miles difference from locations. A guy over on Phantom Pilots forum said DJI told him if a user uses Follow Me mode, it invalidates any subsequent warranty claim which may arise! That ain't included in their advertising!!
 
Got a Phantom 3 Pro and thinking of getting some prop guards, are people using the clip on ones or the genuine DJI ones that are permanent a fix?
 
have batteries got better in the last 2 years?

I'm saying this as I haven't flown my dgi phantom for about that long and only use to get about 8 minutes out of it with camera and gimbil on it.

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canman said:
have batteries got better in the last 2 years?

I'm saying this as I haven't flown my dgi phantom for about that long and only use to get about 8 minutes out of it with camera and gimbil on it.

thanks
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Which phantom? Friend has a phantom 3, gets about 25 mins on one batt.
 
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