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User Guide v3.6 –
published on October 23, 2019
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About Thermal
Thermal 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
Thermal (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
Thermal and impair its communications.
About lens cap and camera calibration
Always remove Thermal’s lens cap before you power the drone on. The calibration of
the camera cannot be achieved with the lens cap on, and furthermore, leaving the lens cap
on the camera for the calibration can damage the mechanism of the gimbal.
About Wi-Fi
Parrot asks you to switch off your smartphone’s Wi-Fi connection when flying Thermal
with both the Parrot Skycontroller 3 and your phone: with this configuration, the drone and
the controller communicate through Thermal’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 Thermal’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 Thermal’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
Thermal’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, Thermal’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
Thermal for the first time.
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