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Phantom 3 Professional Just Not Ready
After owning a Phantom 2 Vision + for a year, decided to buy this for the 4K camera. (I would consider myself a very experienced flyer). On my first flight, following firmware upgrade, IMU and compass calibration, I started to fly when, 20 feet off the ground the bird started flying very erratically, so difficult to finally get it to a point where I could catch it, I shut everything down and restarted. Never figured that out, then on about the 3rd flight as I was descending at about 10 feet, the two right side props just stopped, causing the bird to flip and fall on its topside. Lucky it was grass. The two props would not start until I waited 10 minutes and pulled and reinserted the battery. Over the next 2 weeks I had numerous issues, including having the Phantom fly in apparent home lock, when that feature is not supposed to be possible. Besides all that, the app crashes continuously on my Samsung S5, and the 4K video is really not that usable as the latest and fastest tablets cannot run the 4K (just takes too much RAM) and you need at least an I7 or I9 computer to edit the video. Just too many problems, maybe I will return to this unit in a year when they have problems resolved. Oh, and by the way, I just got my Phantom 2 Vision+ back from its 6th trip to DJI, its been going back and forth from DJI for repairs since January.
August 2015 · Toys and Games · verified purchase