old Newbie with P3 advanced on the way

Have you looked at the article on "that other website" about lag and drop out on the p3's. Sounds reasonable to me, especially if it looks like DJI may have took a shortcut, or a cheaper option. Doesn't look to be too complicated to do, what do you think?

http://www.phantompilots.com/threads/phantom-3-advanced-owners-with-the-bad-2-6-second-video-lag-finally-fixed.85366/

 

Brings up another question,,,,what about the after market antennas. Not just the reflectors, even though I think they will help a little. Some of those antennas look a bit strange to me. Just curious.

 

I flew this afternoon almost sunset. Don't remember flight duration but the video was a bit over 16 minutes, landed with 27% on the battery. Everything went well. Got out to about 1/2 mile with alerts, lags, or dropouts. What settings do you normally use on your video setup? I have played with it a bit, but I'm not up on photography. I am using 1080 x 30fps mp4. My device gets a little jerky if I go faster than that on fps. Video is good to my eye, and suits my needs for surveillance on critters and the cows. I actually chased some calves out of the fence this afternoon, as they were putting a strain on the wires trying to get to the "greener grass" on the other side. Had a brief rodeo show. Wish I had more time to "get into it" more but, this time of year is pretty busy. Maybe this fall when work slows down and temps cool off a bit, I'll have more time. Thanks for the conversation/helps, Gary
P.S. What part of the world are you flying in ?

 

Webman-
I took your suggestions & fly the open field for 4 waypoints, then I added 2 just into the woods, approx.- 100 ft. in, I did move to center of field so I could see my bird flyin over those 20-30 ft. trees, I change my altitude to 40 meters & although I lost line of sight for approx. 15-20 seconds, she flew the 2 forest waypoints with no drama!
Loading Litchi missions, I think I mentioned, on occasion it take me a couple of tries before bird "takes" the mission, which is what happened on this flight too, 1 minute in I got the Warning- "mission failed to load", but she'd already done 4 waypoints & I assume the warning pertains to the first try at loading the mission that failed, Still its a little scary!
I am taking baby steps, over at "that other site" I see guys flying over heavily populated areas, landing in their driveway, beside their car!
I just can't do that yet, & probably never will!
Thanks for your tips, much appreciated

 

I must add here, I;ve since changed out my Asus tablet for a Nividia Shield K-1, its like going from a black & white TV to color!
I'n the 4 days I;ve had it, no noticeable lag, no drop outs & mimicking flights where I;ve lost signal, not a hint of image issues.
What I really like - as soon as I connect to the tablet, image is there, no fiddling around.