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lvl.2
Flight distance : 309626 ft
United States
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This is not a software limitation. It's literally losing signal at around 500 m. I do not have a distance limit set for horizontal flight. My height limit is set to 500m. Today once I hit approximately 500 m, but it wasn't exact, the craft lost signal and control at the same time. No video, no ability to control the craft. It kind of went back in and out of that mode for a few minutes as the battery started to run down. I hit go to home, but nothing happened. Finally, I'm not sure if it started to come home by itself, or I got just enough control, but it started to come home. This is highly unusual where my phantom 2 in the same exact environment can travel three times as far. Something is wrong, it was scary. Unlike the phantom 2 analog signal, when this goes it goes and you have nothing.
Blade, I went into the transmission settings manually and picked a green channel that had nearly no noise on it. When the craft regained control, again, no noise was shown. I don't get it but it scared the crap out of me. How come the I1 has issues where the P2 has none in the same spot?
One more thing: flight recorder just ended once it cut off - at 459M exactly. It did not record remainder of flight. Something is up.
Other than that, it flew fine. A little latency but within the 500M circle it's ok. But this sudden cut off is troubling:
a) the warning sets in and then if you go only a few more meters you lose the craft entirely
b) it's far, far less than the P2 is seeing in the same flight conditions.
Nevermind the entire flight was full of jello because the supplied ND isn't strong enough... and there's an issue with the camera. The center of the frame is blurry and the edges are clear. It's the opposite of what should be, like a lens element is out of whack.
Can these things be returned?
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