As a general rule in high-altitude flights, it is recommended for safety reasons to set the internal battery consumption alarm to 30% and return to the take-off point at 25%. Please refer to the drone user manual to make these settings. This generation features a locking propellers versus the self tightening one from previous generation. It has a forward obstacle detection sensor capable of object detection up to 33 feet.
The quick installation system is a large draw to customers who don’t like wasting time setting up their drone for mapping missions. Hero, is the newest in our line of simple to use survey cameras. Every Survey3 camera includes an external GNSS/GPS receiver to automatically geo-tag each captured image. Its 12MP sensor and sharp non-fisheye lens allows you to easily capture aerial media. We are a service provider of aviation labels, ID cards and other products and services.
It’s a modest improvement from the dji fly, which is rated for 28 minutes and netted about 23 minutes of flight time in our tests. TapFly, which lets you move the Phantom to a point in space by tapping on it in the Live View feed, is joined by Draw. Draw works in a similar manner, but lets you draw a flight path on your screen. The drone will fly along the path, avoiding obstacles using its forward and rear sensors along the way. The drone also has a Sport mode, which increases the maximum speed to 45mph, but absolutely no obstacle detection is enabled. It can go faster with help from the wind—the app told me that my Phantom 4 Pro was flying around 50mph in Sport mode for a good stretch of distance during one of my test flights.
The 60fps speed makes P4P+ V2.0 video an ideal candidate for conversion to slow motion. The output is increased to 100Mbs from 60Mbs on most earlier dji fly models. This is true professional-level video that’s suitable for shooting TV news, commercials, features, advanced web pages, weddings and indoor/outdoor events. P-Mode allows your quadcopter to use visual positioning and obstacle sensing. It is also the position you need to be in to use all the intelligent flight modes such as Waypoints, ActiveTrack, TapFly and beginner mode etc. S-mode adjusts the handling for maximum maneuverability and unlocks the drone’s top flight speed of 45mph.
The battery features a set of lights that indicate the amount of charge left, giving a handy visual guide to flight times. Once the drone is assembled and your mobile device is connected the controller can be switched on, followed by the Phantom 4. It’s then just a case of waiting for 6 GPS satellites to be picked up before you take to the air.
It does mean however that you do not need to baby a Phantom and in case your drone does get damaged, the aircraft is easy to repair. Making most of these new features possible required a redesign. DJI streamlined the body and gimbal design, putting more of it inside the body. It has more powerful motors and propellers that lock phantom 4 on with a simple push and twist instead of the endless spinning required to get the old props on and off. I tested it out on my daughter as she rode her bike and as long as she didn’t move too fast, the drone was able to keep up. When she did travel out of its range, the drone started tracking her when she got near again.