Kneepuck
Second Officer
Flight distance : 275105 ft
United States
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People don't seem to understand one basic thing. The Dji-Go app, in fact, any app, is not going to cause you to lose control signal to the aircraft. That is an issue strictly between the aircraft and the remote. You can see this for yourself by simply flying the aircraft without any device at all. You will find that it performs the same way without any device as it does with a device. The app can cause you to have problems with the fpv from the Phantoms camera, yes. Because the fpv relies on the device. But that has nothing to do with the r/c signal.
After having experienced this issue myself on a Standard, and having read countless posts on the subject, it is clear there is a hardware or firmware issue, at least with the standard. I do not own a P4, but I do own an Advanced as well as the Standard. The Advanced is great, has always been great and I expect it will be great for quite a while to come.
The posts I have read are right in line with my experience. In every single case, the Phantom 3 Standard flew just fine, as advertised, out of the box. Then, after 3 or 4 flights, mostly after firmware updates but there may be a few where no update was done, the Standard suddenly has a loss of r/c signal, prompting an automatic rth. There is no particular set of events that must occur for it to happen. It can happen at 2 feet or 10 feet or 200 feet. I can be sitting in one spot, hovering at any altitude, and the r/c will go from a full set of bars to nothing and rth with no user intervention at al. You can rotate the craft in one direction or the other and the signal will come and go. It is maddening. And, at least in my case, it is not any form of radio interference. I live in a remote area, I have no neighbors for over a mile, am near no airport or any other thing that may emit rf interference, and even my wifi router is only 2.4 ghz, while the Standard uses a 5.8ghz signal for control. I am pretty well convinced that there is, somewhere in the rf section of either the Phantom or the r/c, a cold solder joint or some form of poor connection. I think it probably is in the Phantom itself, since turning the Phantom exposes the 2 antenna in the legs of the Phantom different ways. I no longer posses the test equipment to fully check out my theory, but I stand by it, based on over 30 years of working in the field of r/f ( radio frequency) electronics, working on everything from radar and loran systems to ham radio and cellular telephone systems, and even old uhf and vhf IMTS car phones , from the days before cellular.
But I have said all this before, in many different posts, and I expect that I will get the same results as I have in all of them. And for the op; don't hold your breath waiting for meaningful resolution to this situation. But, since you are dealing with a P4, as opposed to my poor P3 Standard, maybe you will do better than I.
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