Recent content by Kilrymont

***UPDATE*** re below.. I just spoke to the DJI seller (HELIGUY - UK) and he says it sounds like the quad has a hardware issue and it's to be booked in for repair under warranty. That's a relief! I'll leave the original post below for anyone to read who might be interested in my experience...

You're a sarky bugger, sir. Nowhere did I say it was "identical in every way". That would have been nearly as crass as your thoughtless response. Your comment re the safety bag shows the level of thought you put into your obviously skewed take in these things. Lipo batteries on your planet have...

Have the Air fly more combo so when I found Amazon selling the (brand new - NOT refurbished) Pro for £750 - I bit. But did want extra battery capacity. So kept to low cost options just to see how they compared. One used battery via eBay for slightly over half price and one new Powerextra to...

Remember that in the event of an incident during an in-warranty-period flight using Litchi you’ll have no warranty claim with DJI if something nasty happens and damage to the AC results. Even if it was a hardware failure. You’ll have no DJI flight record as evidence of whatever error had taken...

I have had this on two successive flights. Both with open skies all around and with in the last case 18 satellites at the point of error in the flight. This was about 310ft high, not quite above me with the antennas not quite vertical. It gave me quite a start, I can tell you. Neither my P4 nor...

I’m a relative newbie to these things, only just past my first “birthday” with a P4. I began being VERY cautious with winds, (certainly too cautious in retrospect) but remain fairly conservative with these things. For good reason. I’ve been a fisherman for the best part of 60 years, boy and man...

I think I can confidently say that no drone flown by me will ever approach those distances. Especially since in countries where the CE standard applies the transmission wattage (milliwattage?) is considerably reduced from what the US FCC permits. Not every info source in the UK/Europe is keen...

Replying to myself here, just as well I'm not *talking* to me as well? Latest - the reduced prices on Amazon for the bare MavPro was tempting beyond endurance, so I got fed up resisting and bought the bloody thing. A bare-bones package with only two spare props as extras over the usual battery...

Interesting. This is a bit of a tale, apologies. Maybe related, perhaps not; I'm not savvy enough in these matters to know. My Air arrived last week and from Sunday till now I've had multiple tries, I think four all told to establish control of it. Connection was far from easy, initially. But...

Waterfalls are very attractive, but if you can find a bit of river with some rapids (in the fens I can guess such will be - non-existent?) since there's length and/or area to use involving some horizontal movement to increase the shot's interest. The idea of storyboards is one I'd never...

Hi Chris, actually I don't know what a Karma is so I'll google it when I've sent this off. I've seen a fair bit of footage from Yuneec birds and thus far it all looked like high quality stuff. In particular there's a YouTuber goes by the tag of Tigger who lives in the Scottish Highlands and his...

That's a neat idea - like it!

Forecast tomorrow looking a bit more cheerful... Fingers crossed....

New arrival here, with a days-old Air - that's still not taken to the air! I have several cards used in a P4 and some cheap little "action cams" so didn't have to buy one right away, figured I'd see how the existing ones fared before making another buy. And then thought "which way up is right?"...

I'd saved enough so I could even have gone as far as a MavPlatinum but the fairly extreme expense for what is essentially just an expensive toy rather dictated that I get a bit more sensible. My ability is likely to be the limiting factor in footage shot more than anything in the drone's spec...