this has been bugging me for a while and i finally decided to just ask. got my Air 3 back in the spring and for the first few months it was fantastic, easily hitting close to the advertised range with no real issues. but lately ? and i cant pinpoint exactly when it started ? im getting signal warnings and sometimes brief disconnects at like 400-500 meters. thats nowhere near what it used to do.

nothing obviously changed with my setup. same controller, same phone as before. i fly mostly at a local park with some trees around but nothing that would explain why it got worse over time. running the latest firmware. anyone dealt with this or have any idea what would cause range to just degrade like that

check if theres been any new wifi or cellular infrastructure put up near where you fly. a new cell tower or even a busy event nearby can trash your 2.4 and 5.8ghz bands and the drone has no way to compensate completely. also worth going into the signal settings and trying to manually force it to a specific band rather than letting it auto-switch, sometimes the auto mode makes weird choices. i had a similar thing happen near a construction site and it turned out they had a bunch of temporary wireless equipment running

had something similar happen and it turned out to be my RC controller antenna orientation. sounds dumb but i hadnt thought about it in months and i got sloppy with how i was holding the controller. the flat side of the antennas should face the drone not point at it ? if youre pointing the tips directly at the aircraft youre basically sending the signal in the worst possible direction. might not be your issue but worth ruling out before digging deeper into firmware stuff