So, I took the drive after a lot of though and research and picked up my first quadcopter/drone *whatever the hell you wanna call them* yesterday, a lovely new Phantom 3 Pro from a local shop.

Everything seemed to be good an in order during unboxing, firmware update on Phantom and controller, updated Note 4 with newest DJI app and took my first flight indoors

But I immeditely noticed the video feed just didn't look "right" and then I checked the 4k video and photos I took for tests and sure enough, everything was "crooked" on the horizontal plane.

More research into this and I found info in forums to do a full IMU calibration under advanced sensor settings and then do gimble calibration .

I did that 4 seperate times with 2 different micro SD cards and had the Phantom on perfectly level mantle on concrete with no motion.  The gimple is slightly better but its still not perfectly angled to the horizon as is evident of photos I took with a bubble measure.  The mantle itself is perfectly flat all around as I measure it with my Note 4 using a bubble meter as well.


I kinda expect a nearly $1300 piece of hobby equipment to pretty damn flawless out of the box, especially for the camera system just to be level.   From what i've read, a lot other people on the web are having same issue.

http://forum.dji.com/thread-15941-1-1.html


Thankfully I bought this at a authorized dealer so I'm basically just gonna not touch thing until I can visit them again and have them take a closer look and hopefully just get an exchange when they get more Pro's in.

Anyone else had this issue out of the box and what did you ultimately for a solution?

I thought only me.

antlvk@gmail.co Posted at 2015-5-28 13:02
I thought only me.

I assume same issue?

yeah, i thought it's just perspective are different from the sky, i was wrong, lol

I have a bent sky too... It's got to be a known issue right by now.  I even had to adjust the camera mid flight which is not idea.  It seems to drift which is worst still in many ways.

Seems to be a known ongoing issue at the moment. It can be adjusted in the DJI Pilot App but this needs doing every time you power it on. I don't think this is a hardware issue more firmware. Its just a waiting game for DJI to create a fix ( I'm sure they have people looking at this as its a MAJOR gripe from owners at the moment )

Remember to buy extra propellers and one or two spare batteries to keep you flying

I have had the same issue with my P3 Pro.    However, after updating yesterday to the latest iOS app v1.1.2 then doing the IMU and gimbal calibrations, visually it now looks pretty close to level.  Will do some flight testing.  And this time doing the IMU calibration it took much longer (maybe 5-10 minutes) than with previous attempts.  

Did a test flight.  Definitely looks more level than ever before.  Will try to upload a pic (straight from the SD card, no editing done).

Not able to upload a pic, hmmm.

Thanks for posting this. As they say, "It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease."

I should receive my P3P tomorrow. Look forward to testing but I'm I bit apprehensive about it. This now well known issue really is somewhat of a deal breaker. Out of all the things on a check list, that an aerial video system is designed to do, shooting level should be somewhat...important. No other "awesome feature" of the P3P really matters if your shots are constantly tilted.


One of the best, courteous and helpful DJI resources here - Tahoe_Ed says, "This has been reported to DJI several times They are aware and will address the issue." So hopefully there's a fix soon.

That said,  "It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease."

Other peoples across the web are saying to "freeze" the phantom in the fridge to chill the IMU and then do an immediate IMU calibration and apparently it works for some people.

Gimbal

Finally was able to attach a pic (used Chrome...but certainly not easy).  As you can see the horizon is about as level as it can be.

I had to exchange my p3 as it never got better

Fixed mine with the fridge trick and a sensor and gimbal re calibrate. For now, just have one flight after the fix.