Looking for advise on purchasing my first phantom

shaun nadan · Dec 21, 2016

Hi everyone

Having been exceptionally good this year, Santa has made possible a decent Christmas budget towards getting my first phantom.

Limited budget allows me to have 1 of these possible option and was looking for advise on what would be the best value for money.

Phantom 4 refurb with soft shell backpack and fast car charger

Phantom 3 pro with
A total of 2 x batteries
Aluminium Carry Case
Sun Shield
Camera Guard
Fast Car Charger
Detachable Propeller Guards
Lens Hood
Lens Cover
Lanyard
Remote Control Yaw Dampers
ND4 Camera Lens Filter
USB SD and SD-mini card reader
Antenna Boosters
Hard shell backpack

Phantom 3 standard with
A total of 3x batteries
Aluminium Carry Case
Fast Car Charger

tml4191 · Dec 21, 2016

Neon Euc · Dec 21, 2016

Forget the standard. The range issue will have you seething at how bad it can be. ESP in urban areas. So def any of the P4

Neon Euc

tml4191 · Dec 21, 2016

check craigslist before you get it online too since there are usually some great deals there. Plus, you can bargain it down a bit

msinger · Dec 21, 2016

I would personally go with the P3P or P4 since they both use Lightbridge. You could probably skip many of those P3P accessories. Save yourself some money and see what you actually need after you get a few flights under your belt.

shaun nadan · Dec 22, 2016

Neon Euc said:
Forget the standard. The range issue will have you seething at how bad it can be. ESP in urban areas. So def any of the P4

Neon Euc

The standard has been struck of the list! Thanks

shaun nadan · Dec 22, 2016

tml4191 said:
check craigslist before you get it online too since there are usually some great deals there. Plus, you can bargain it down a bit

The local classifieds in SA have people selling at higher costs ! It's madness

shaun nadan · Dec 22, 2016

msinger said:
I would personally go with the P3P or P4 since they both use Lightbridge. You could probably skip many of those P3P accessories. Save yourself some money and see what you actually need after you get a few flights under your belt.

Thanks. The accessories on the p3p are all part of a bundle and can't be removed. I would love to skip a few and get extra batteries but it's not possible.

Jerrold Sutton · Dec 22, 2016

P3p. P4 is overrated. I know I'm going to hear about this

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Jerrold Sutton · Dec 22, 2016

I also bet we are not far from a p5 release. Just saying it doesn't take long for dji to drop new models

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Budman · Dec 22, 2016

Going by your list, P3P. But you don't need half that crap that's in the list. Case and backpack? What's the price?
First drone and limited budget?
P3 advanced.

shaun nadan · Dec 23, 2016

Budman said:
Going by your list, P3P. But you don't need half that crap that's in the list. Case and backpack? What's the price?
First drone and limited budget?
P3 advanced.

I actually can fit everything into the backpack apart from the prop guards . The case allows me to put the phantom back without having to remove the props.

The price was 17'000 South African rands

shaun nadan · Dec 23, 2016

Thanks for all the advise guys!

I landed up getting the p3p

Just a bit upset it's raining here so will wait till tomorrow to fly

Ray ZA · Jan 24, 2017

I'm very new on this forum and was happy to come across a SA member of this forum as I'm from Johannesburg. I bumped into a guy with P3P in Jeffrey's Bay and got instantly interested in acquiring a Phamtom.

I'm still in my research phase , watching endless YouTube videos on drones and this forum is making more wiser on what I should get. I'm keen on the Phamtom 4 factory refurb with it's accessories, on special now for ZAR18999 - SAVing up up to get this bird.

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