longislandcampe
lvl.1
United States
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I got my P3A right before Christmas and love flying it. My brother lives about 4,900' away from me in a straight line and I kept trying to fly to his house but I only got about 3,000' before I lost signal. I purcahsed the cooper antennae booster and got about 3,700' before I lost signal. There are a lot of trees and houses between us and I am happy to report that the cooper booster did increase my range so I can only imagine how much greater the range would have been boosted in a more desolate area.
This morning I finally got the nerve to plan a misison in Litchi to fly to my brothers house. I had never even tried Litchi before so I of course was nervous. The first thing I did was create a simple Litchi mission around my house just to verify that the program works and sure enough it did. Once it was over I started the misison to my brothers house. :-O
Naturally, I lost connection at about 3,700' away but the cooper booster did enable me to view the extra 700'. I was nervous once the connection was lost especially when I kept getting the disconnect voice messages coming through. lol The entire flight was only about 5 or 6 minutes and I lost connection for about 2 minutes but sure enough my video feed picked back up and my bird came home.
The video came out great and almost exactly as I anticipated. I just need to play around a little more with the POI elevation feature because I didn't get EXACTLY what I wanted but for the first flight using these tools I was impressed.
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