Daveb500
lvl.4
Flight distance : 191742 ft
United Kingdom
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I fly mine on an old Sony z1 phone. That isn't on DJI list but it works just fine.I would fully test the dji app on your phone, if the app crashes try putting the phone into airplane mode, there is a thought that the wifi and the 3g/4g services interfere.
If when flying the app crashes, no problem, you can fly without the app running. The bird wont just fall from the sky. make sure you stay in gps mode on the controller, s1 switch fully up. then you can release the controls and the bird will stop and hover.
So if you think things are getting out of hand, fingers of the sticks and the bird will hover. That gives your brain chance to settle and think things through.
Fly in a wide open space. Keep the bird in sight, fly in a pair so one is flying the other is spotting.
Take some binoculars if you have them, it helps when you start to fly a distance.
Some on here say ohh 500m is not far enough, well its hard to see a phantom at that distance, and judge distance to objects.
Before you take off make sure you set the return to home height to a level that will allow it to fly over all obsticles in your flight path.
Look around your chosen flight area and plan a simple flight path to follow.
If when flying you loose sight and your dji app stops telemetry, flick the s2 switch up and down twice and it will return home.
Test the features like that to gain confidence.
These birds will fly themselves, they don't crash its normally the pilots that crash them.
Don't panic, just enjoy the flying.
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