Hope you’ve all had a good Christmas! I, like possibly lots of you, I’ve been making the most of the good weather and taking my MP2 out for adventures. Today I was flying over Weymouth beach and I was only about a mile away when the drone started to struggle for signal. Immediately, I brought it back home and everything was fine. Considering the MP2 is meant to have a range of 5 miles, why would the signal be so weak and get lost temporarily after only a mile?
Any ideas would be appreciated just for curiosity. I don’t tend to fly far normally but this was a lovely day with line of sight.
If the MP is some way off, these should be vertical with the flat side facing the Mavic, not the ends pointing toward it … a mistake that some people make.
I’ve just been over 2 miles out to sea in Southsea … no probs … with my MP.
As well as the position of the aerials affecting the range, don’t forget that trees or any other object can reduce or block the signal. As a general rule, the further out you fly, the higher you need to be to keep a strong signal. Unless you are over water with an uninterrupted line of sight.
6 mile range is under optimum conditions, a bit like saying my car does 75mpg…yeh sure, on a laboratory rolling road with no wind resistance or stop-start traffic it might.
Shortly after I posted, earlier, my MP was only about 100ft directly above me … and I had to put my controller down, briefly, to do something … leaving the MP to hover.
As soon as I put the controller down, I immediately got a weak signal warning … because the antenna (ends) were pointed directly upward at it. Just 100ft!
