Got my P4 yesterday and went through all the steps upgrading the firmware to the latest version (Both Aircraft and RC) , my initial impression is kind of disappointed..
My Initial reason for buying a P4 is mainly for 3 things: better camera, longer battery life and a faster sport mode, so it could fly further and go the destination quicker. Object avoidance is a nice to have but I don’t think the and tap fly, track me mode is that reliable and user-friendly as yet and I would rather fly with a control stick.
My initial testing was as follow.
1. Battery life:
My P4 has a similar battery life as my P3A if not worst.. it doesn’t goes anything near as 28 mins… My P3A can fly close to 20 mins and 2 of my flight on my P4 today is more like 18 mins… So I really don’t any improvement in real world in term of battery life …
2. Speed:
In During my testing today, the speed of sport mode and ATT mode are the same.. Not 16M/s in atti mode and 20m/s in sport mode. the fastest speed in average is about 18m/s in no wind condition. It seems to me the battery can’t cope with flying at high speed and a kind of throttling it back.
3. Camera quality :
the image does looks brighter and sharper at day time, but the noise level seem worst when recording at night then my P3A… For me, the key part I want my P3A camera to improves is night shooting quality in which my P4 shows no improvement at all.
So in short, I see no battery improvement in real life, the speed increase is a mere 1-2m/s which is not that noticeable and the camera improvement is only subtle during day time and kind of worst during night time ..
I really hope these can be improves with a new firmware release ..
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