
Originally Posted by
Avon Barksdale
As far as the controller case, there should be a button you can depress that extends the grips for your cell phone, and then you fold down the two little tiny plastic pieces that act as a holder. Set your phone and clamp down until secure, and that should keep you in landscape mode, unless I misunderstood your question.
Yes you're correct. Was much better this way.
Flew it today.
Took it to a wide open nature area with hills and mountains.
No concern about rain, but there was some moderate wind and I was afraid to take it past a certain hill (one which is maybe 120 feet higher than where I was standing) because of potential wind over the ridge.
Later (after I wore my battery down) I hiked up there and it turned out my fears about the wind were unfounded.
The 22mph wind limit kinda freaks me out, because I know from being a skier how the wind can whip up over ridges or as you gain altitude (though admittedly, the altitude gain is only likely to be about 400 feet max).
For some reason I thought I went pretty far, but when I got back home and watched the videos, it looked like I didn't really go where I thought I did.
I also learned about flying "for the video", meaning you don't spin the camera around pointlessly or sit around hovering, or the video is kinda tilting to watch. Yes, I know I can edit it, but at home I just wanted to see the damn thing zoom over the landscape and I kept getting frustrated when I noticed myself stop or play with the camera angle.
On a calm day I will try to take the thing pretty far and use it to explore the mountain.
The Phantom 4 also has a "track a moving object" which could be cool, though a car is probably too fast to track, and a person walking is probably too tedious to track, so I'm not sure how I'll use it. Maybe I'll track myself walking, but that sounds like a boring video.
I put a sticker tonight with my name and phone # on it, for future flights.
I wish there were a way to track it if it were to crash somewhere out in the hills where people aren't likely to find it. I guess the best you can do is see the last video it took and its last map coordinates.