Kneepuck
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I am so tired of this. Not of people complaining about the range issue of the Standard. I am one of those people. The fact that SO MANY people report the EXACT SAME ISSUE and the Dji response is to either check for interference, check your antenna or return the aircraft to repair.
It is always the same. Someone buys a Standard. The first few flights are awesome, better than expected. User is thrilled. He does a firmware update, eagerly looking forward to new capabilities. Then goes for a flight. Now his awesome Standard will not fly as far as a well made paper airplane.
Come on Dji! I solved my problem by buying an Advanced. The Advanced is amazing and I am still thrilled with every flight. But that option is not available to everyone. The frustration and anger that comes from having something that was great become something useless when all you did was follow manufacturer instructions has certainly cost you customers. Customers = sales. Surely you have not become so profitable that you no longer care about increasing profits. Throw your Standard customers a bone. At least have someone actually look into the range problem. It MUST BE firmware related. There are to many examples of people saying the same thing for it to be otherwise. The OP of this post says he is a Ham radio guy. He certainly knows how RF works. I am an RF tech with over 30 years in the field. I also know a little something about the subject. And many other Standard owners have reported similar technical experience. Recognize, accept and acknowledge that there is a problem at least, rather than give the same old tired useless response we have been getting. I, for one, and I am surely not alone, would be glad to provide whatever assistance I can to help. Because, as many of us are technical people, a lot of us have taken steps to increase the range that voided our warranty. We would probably have done those things anyway, but doing it closes the door on Dji fixing it without charging almost as much as just buying a new drone. No one wants to return the drone as a first option, because we enjoy it so much we don't want to be without it for the time it takes to repair and return it. So we try doing it ourselves. Actually, it is a testament to the construction of the Standard that we fail to fix the problem. As a tech, I know that 90 percent of the repairs I have done have been cold solder joints or related. Of the remaining repairs I have done, 90 percent of them are capacitor related. And since I could not find either of those issues in the P3 Standard, I must conclude that it is well made. I must also conclude that the problem is almost certainly FIRMWARE related.
So, how about it Dji. Give us some love.
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