Meet Lily...
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For 20 minute flight time, 2 hour charge time, non swappable batteries? Naw...
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Re: Meet Lily...
I have a Phantom 2 with rechargeable batteries and 8 minutes more flight time. Also costs 3 times as much and is not water proof and very much hands-on all the time.StroppyChops wrote:For 20 minute flight time, 2 hour charge time, non swappable batteries? Naw...
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Guess we need a water proof Phantom with a follow option.
I would never buy something that's battery driven but doesn't allow me to replace batteries.
I would never buy something that's battery driven but doesn't allow me to replace batteries.
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No Ipad or Iphone then?BOFH wrote:Guess we need a water proof Phantom with a follow option.
I would never buy something that's battery driven but doesn't allow me to replace batteries.
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BOFH wrote:Guess we need a water proof Phantom with a follow option.
I would never buy something that's battery driven but doesn't allow me to replace batteries.
isn't that an apple product?
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do u have any videos u care to share??hanno wrote:I have a Phantom 2 with rechargeable batteries and 8 minutes more flight time. Also costs 3 times as much and is not water proof and very much hands-on all the time.StroppyChops wrote:For 20 minute flight time, 2 hour charge time, non swappable batteries? Naw...
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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Let me find the last one where the drone did no longer react to the radio signal, flew into some Bamboo, and crashed on the only patch of concrete for Miles around.phuketrichard wrote:do u have any videos u care to share??hanno wrote:I have a Phantom 2 with rechargeable batteries and 8 minutes more flight time. Also costs 3 times as much and is not water proof and very much hands-on all the time.StroppyChops wrote:For 20 minute flight time, 2 hour charge time, non swappable batteries? Naw...
Just got it fixed and will fly again this weekend.....
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Don't the more expensive drones gently set themselves down if they lose signal now? Shame if you're over water, but better than flying on into the sunset.hanno wrote:Let me find the last one where the drone did no longer react to the radio signal, flew into some Bamboo, and crashed on the only patch of concrete for Miles around.phuketrichard wrote:do u have any videos u care to share??hanno wrote:I have a Phantom 2 with rechargeable batteries and 8 minutes more flight time. Also costs 3 times as much and is not water proof and very much hands-on all the time.StroppyChops wrote:For 20 minute flight time, 2 hour charge time, non swappable batteries? Naw...
Just got it fixed and will fly again this weekend.....
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In theory yes. But this bloody thing went into fly-away mode (I later figured it was because I forgot to turn off the Bluetooth on the GoPro), hit some Bamboo 12 meters and nose-dived into the concrete.Don't the more expensive drones gently set themselves down if they lose signal now? Shame if you're over water, but better than flying on into the sunset.
Pretty sturdy though: all the propellers broke, and it took me forever to get a replacement, the gimbal head attachment broke but the actual drone just suffered cosmetic damage.
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My son saved his dollars and bought a decent-sized RC helicopter. The box had a seal on it saying to not start the 'copter until the RC was on and signal-locked. The 'copter had a security tape stating to not start the 'copter until the RC was on and signal-locked. The first thing in the manual, and on the training DVD, was to not start the 'copter until the RC was on and signal-locked. My son the genius decided he wanted to know what happens when you start the 'copter before the RC was on and signal-locked. Fastest big money he ever wasted.hanno wrote:In theory yes. But this bloody thing went into fly-away mode (I later figured it was because I forgot to turn off the Bluetooth on the GoPro), hit some Bamboo 12 meters and nose-dived into the concrete.Don't the more expensive drones gently set themselves down if they lose signal now? Shame if you're over water, but better than flying on into the sunset.
Pretty sturdy though: all the propellers broke, and it took me forever to get a replacement, the gimbal head attachment broke but the actual drone just suffered cosmetic damage.
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