Range

Special K · Jul 27, 2016

My phantom 3 advanced is maxing out at about 800 metres. Clear line of sight. Any suggestions?

Scotty88 · Jul 27, 2016

Have to checked you max distance in go app?also check antenna orientation and lastly interference. Good luck

digital290 · Jul 27, 2016

Even after installing a parabolic antenna from Amazon the most distance I get is 3100 feet. And that is line of sight. If my bird goes behind a ridge or anything the distance is MUCH less. Not sure how these pilots are getting "miles" out of their birds

JWarren · Jul 27, 2016

I used to have a 2 PV2+ and I was lucky to get 1000 ft. With my P4 I've had it out to almost 15,000 ft with no signal strength loss. I won't make it a habit of doing that though, but it was fun.

Soulmetzger · Jul 28, 2016

Depending on local interference I can feel confident with taking my P3A 2500ft but usually after that I get loss of video signal. In south florida you don't get big open areas for LOS unless you take your bird over water.

Mark The Droner · Jul 28, 2016

<edited out, see below>. If you really want to give it a fair test, you probably need to take a drive and put yourself in the perfect environment to test it for 1000 meters.

digital290 said:
Even after installing a parabolic antenna from Amazon the most distance I get is 3100 feet. And that is line of sight. If my bird goes behind a ridge or anything the distance is MUCH less. Not sure how these pilots are getting "miles" out of their birds

It's a fairly long slow process involving mods on both sides. It requires a lot of learning, a lot of tweaking, and a lot of patience. A member here got 19.4 miles with his P3P.

http://www.flytrex.com/challenges/freestyle-distance/

Scotty88 · Jul 28, 2016

Marknmd said:
Since 1000 meters is max for a stock P3A, I wouldn't be too unhappy with 800 meters because you can assume interference, humidity, or some other problem is costing you the last 200 meters. If you really want to give it a fair test, you probably need to take a drive and put yourself in the perfect environment to test it for 1000 meters.

1km is def not the max for s stock p3a, it is marketed as 2km, I can Easily get 3 km out of mine all stock. The OP has a faulty unit it seems.

Mozzie67 · Jul 28, 2016

I'm surrounded by bush at my house and after 200m I have no line of sight and was getting 700m today pretty good...up on the local headland with clear line of sight quiet offen fly out 1300-1500 m with no probs..all stock standard..
Very impressed with my p3a..

Mark The Droner · Jul 28, 2016

Scotty88 said:
1km is def not the max for s stock p3a, it is marketed as 2km, I can Easily get 3 km out of mine all stock. The OP has a faulty unit it seems.

You're right, my bad. I was thinking a P3S. Stock for a P3A is 5,000 meters (or 3.1 miles) in FCC mode, according to specs.

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Great_Lakes · Jul 28, 2016

I stretched my all stock P3P out to one mile yesterday. I live in the country so this was pretty much line of sight, with only a few trees in the way. No loss of video signal but had about one second where it reported "weak controller signal", but not long enough to initiate RTH. I turned it around and flew it back at that point.

Depending on obstructions and altitude, anyone should be able to get these results. I've also read about people getting 3 miles plus, but that was with a completely unobstructed line of sight, like over water or in the desert.