Recent content by iswimmer

Most of the upward drift in altitude occurs as it warms up after starting up. If you want to eliminate most of the drift in the reading you can let it warm up for a few minutes and then turn it off and back on - that resets it to zero. Then when you fly it will be much more accurate.

The distance reading is the horizontal distance from the home point to the phantom rather than the straight line distance. The altitude reading is from the IMU. Ground Station app uses the IMU altimeter. If you start it up cold then as it warms up the altitude will be off on the high side...

Re: New app for Drone Enthusiasts launched I like it! The no fly map is especially useful when traveling.

Only banned in national parks not ca state parks. Monterey marine sanctuary no fly zone south of Carmel river.

The same thing happened to mine back in June. I removed the metal insert and put a larger screw in there. It's been fine since then.

Leave em at 40-50% if not flying for two weeks or more. Probably easiest to charge it up and then fly it till you are in that charge range on the monitor.

Also try completely closing the app and restarting it. That always works for me.

Re: How far should my stock remote reach? Make sure antennae is perpendicular to the phantom, i.e. not pointing at it. That cell tower a mile away shouldn't affect it.

Re: How far should my stock remote reach? It should reach farther than 1000 feet as long as you have line of sight to the phantom. Mine reaches a couple thousand feet on flat country with trees around and less than 400 feet elevation. In wide open country like from a high point on a mountain or...

Yup no problem. If you want a map background then you'll need to load it beforehand.

I don't do anything special besides have the gimbal lock on and I be sure to remember that it's back there on my back so I don't lean up against anything or do too much bouncing when I walk. I think the movement is not as much as doing quick maneuvers in the air and I think you probably get the...

I use my regular day pack and snap the upper two straps through the phantom legs and let the phantom rest on its legs on the back of the pack. Controller n batteries go inside. Works for both hiking n biking as long as ur not going thru much thick brush. I leave props on.

When I turned the phantom battery off and back on the altitude would go back to zero. After things equilibrated - the temperature I assume - it held constant altitude.

I got curious so just tried this. Resetting home position made no difference in altitude. Compass calibration didn't either. Only turning it on and off would reset the altitude back to zero. First try it drifted up to 30 feet in about five minutes of sitting. Then restarted and it went...