User Manual

User Guide v2.4 – published on December 24, 2018 11
About
was designed and optimized to fly as is. Parrot therefore strongly discourages the
use of any add-on or accessory which could be mounted on, or attached to (motor
covers, feet extensions, buoys, hulls, etc.). In addition to the overweight they carry for the
drone and its motors, they can indeed magnetically disturb and impair its
communications.
ND filters, however, are not affected by this warning: filters can be used on ’s lens, but
Parrot recommends installing them carefully, after the drone’s gimbal initialization.
About Wi-Fi
Parrot asks you to switch off your smartphone’s Wi-Fi connection when flying with
both the Parrot Skycontroller 3 and your phone: with this configuration, the drone and the
controller communicate through ’s Wi-Fi network and activating your phone’s Wi-Fi can
only result in interferences.
Therefore, your phone’s Wi-Fi should only be activated – and connected to ’s Wi-Fi
network – when you want to fly the drone using your smartphone as its sole controller.
About 4K video formats
4K video formats are professional grade media which may not be read natively by slower
computers. Shoot in 1080p or use a video converter to turn your ’s 4K videos into a
more manageable format (like 1080p) if they do not read properly on your equipment. This is
especially true for Parrot’s 4K Cinema format, which can only be handled by professional
editing equipment.
About the smart battery
’s smart battery is preinstalled on your drone. Always install it the same way and
never attempt to install it upside down as it could expose your battery and your drone to
irrecoverable electrical damage. As you will find out by reading this guide, ’s battery is
smart enough to enter a wintering mode when you are not using it for ten days in a row.
This also means you need to wake it up and charge it completely before you fly for
the first time.
About auto-RTH (return home)
By design, when synchronized to GPS and Glonass satellites and when short on power,
will always attempt to come back to its most recent take-off point, at minimal height